Tidbits

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Some more really good smaller news items for you guys today. - In one of the really interesting behind the scenes documentaries for The Social Network, we see that Natalie…

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The Other Woman Reviews

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Formerly known as Love And Other Impossible Pursuits, The Other Women bows into a couple theatres this weekend after being available on Video On Demand since the start of the year.

– Let’s start with some really big praise from Richard Corliss from Time Magazine, who was one of the critics who didn’t fall for Black Swan.

Tahan’s collaboration helps Portman achieve a rare intimacy with the audience in what may be her subtlest and most beguiling performance yet. I won’t say the O word, but when she gets on stage to accept her Academy Award, I’ll be thinking of The Other Woman, not Black Swan, as the work she should be proudest of.


A.O Scott from the NY Times, also has praise for Natalie but fell more on the mixed-to-negative side of the fence.

“The Other Woman” is absorbing — at times moving — but also frustrating, relying as it does on slackly staged, overacted, two-person scenes punctuated by uninspired New York montages.


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Yesterday was ridiculously hot here and my damn room was a furnace during the night. After many hours of naked floundering, including a 3am hunt for a mosquito, I finally…

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