Something strange happened on Facebook and Twitter earlier this week. It started with the occasional post and then later my feed just completely exploded. The Kony 2012 documentary had gone massively viral in just under 24 hours. I watched the thirty minute-long video, having absolutely no idea what it is was that I was going to watch. And when the video was over, I had absolutely no idea what the point was. To raise

Was Eddie Murphy really ever gone from acting? And if [...]

The Cannes Festival announced this morning that Marilyn Monroe would be gracing us with her presence this year--at least, virtually. The festival poster, which gets unveiled around this time of the year, will feature a Marilyn blowing on a birthday cake's single candle, marking this year as a landmark, this festival being the sixty-fifth. The festival's press release accompanying this poster states, "fifty years after her death, Marilyn is still a major figure

As reported by the Hollywood Reporter today, Francis Ford Coppola’s [...]

George Clooney wasn’t wrong: this 84th Oscars ceremony was Made in France. With the expected raiding of the top awards tier by the Jean Dujardin-Michel Hazanavicius (for Best Actor, and Best Director and Best Film respectively) dream-team, France figured highly on a lot of people’s minds, not least of all Academy voters. Martin Scorcese’s Hugo Cabret, in which a young boy crosses paths with George Méliès, the genial and inventive

Every once in a while I will post some comments [...]

I am absolutely thrilled to announce to everyone that the [...]