“Blue Jasmine” is a perfect film, the first perfect film I’ve seen all year. It is smart, well-written, entertaining, beautifully filmed and the performances are unbelievably good. The film is also more remarkable for what it demonstrates of the faculties of Woody Allen. After his amusing but rather shallow exercises of the past years, not only with his European forays but even before (remember ... more >
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Blue Jasmine
[Perdido Productions]
Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin and Sally Hawkins
Directed by Woody Allen
To Rome with love
Four stories intersecting in la bella città
Roberto Benigni, Alison Pill and Penelope Cruz
Directed by Woody Allen
Woody Allen continues his European wandering, this time taking on four stories centered around love, infidelity and fame and set in beautiful Rome, la bella città. Only the narrative is so slight and the comedy so unfunny that "To Rome with love" quickly grows tiresome. This is the first time that Allen has gone in front of the camera in a while and it helps because he gives himself all the ... more >
Actor Alec Baldwin Launches New Site
Celebrity websites. Not all Hollywood actors have them. Michael Fassbender hasn’t got one. Alyssa Milano has a Twitter account (several, in fact, I think she collects them). Zach Galifianakis has both Twitter and a site and that’s not necessarily a good thing for America. I first heard about Alec Baldwin’s new site (www.alecbaldwin.com) because I follow him on Twitter (like I do Milano and ... more >