Movie Review | 'Live-In Maid': A Dust-to-Dust Attachment Till Salary Did Them Part
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âLive-In Maid,â Jorge Gaggeroâs remarkably assured first film, examines the complicated relationship between an upper-class Buenos Aires woman and her housekeeper.
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Amitabh and Salman seem to be having a party in reel life
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In the entertainment world, everybody is a freelancer. There is no job security for the movie fraternity in   Bollywood or anywhere in the world.
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When you hear about someone's dream project, run from the box office fast. Those films branded "labors of love" more often turn out to be love's labors lost.
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After Khel, which he directed for Suniel Shetty three years ago, thereÂs plenty of  ÂconfusionÂ in director Yusuf KhanÂs mind and life. And why not? ThatÂs the title of YusufÂs next film.
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The descent from working class to homeless was swift and methodical. Rob Messick lost his job as a contract worker for a technology firm in Alexandria in September. The bills, already high, piled higher: rent, child support, car insurance, medical expenses, utilities. The odd jobs he scored didn't...
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"The Painted Veil" sets  a few fine actors to work with one of W. Somerset Maugham's  1920s tales of Occidentals confronting the Far East and their  own tangled emotional lives.
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Being a real-life star is hard work, and it's not much easier being a cultural icon's avatar. By Lisa Katayama.
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When everything gets an API then everything you can imagine will be possible if you can write a script.  And sometimes, to give you an idea, all that has to happen is that a wall come down. The latest, most intriguing such wall was the paywall at the NY Times. Now all of a sudden we find the wealth of information published by the NY Times over many decades is available without tariff. More important, we can point into the archive. We've gotten so accustomed to the wall, that you actually have to think when it may be possible to go in there, as if it left behind a wall in our minds, even after the wall on the web is gone. For example, the first episode of Ken Burns's The War, an epic series about World War II from the American perspective, cited several NY Times articles. If you looked carefully you could see the dates, and the actual headlines, and then if you have a browser handy, as I do (I have an iPhone) you can actually read the article while the narrative continues. Today this is mostly a gimick, but I suspect as we get used to having history so available (like having a library microfilm machine, which I used to spend whole days playing with when I was a kid) it will change our sense of information, perhaps as much as anything else that's ever been on the web. Take movie reviews for example. What a thrill to be able to read a review of a movie that I love that came out in 1932! The reviewers back then were more forgiving, less sarcasting, more enthusiastic. Consider their review of the Hollywood Revue of 1929, a favorite of mine that I've only seen once (I'd pay for a DVD, if it were available). They loved audible movies (that's what they called them) as if the term "talkie" was as elusive as "podcast" was in the summer of 2004. Again, we've just scratched the surface. Wouldn't you like to have NY Times movie reviews integrated with Netflix? Or have Yahoo's movie rating service available on the NY Times site. And I have to wonder whether they really have gone all the way. You can't see the reviews unless you're logged in. Can Google's robots, therefore, see the movie reviews? Unless the've made some special arrangements, it seems not.  It would be helpful to get a technical guide to the newly hatched NY Times on the Web, or (as in the old days of software) a reviewer's guide, so we get some ideas of what to look at. Clearly a lot of work went into opening up the Times archive. I'm going to be in NY the week of October 8 and will have some time toward the end of the week. If anyone at the Times would be willing to spend some time with me reviewing what's now open, that would be helpful. In any case, at least the Times today is somewhat more available to be integrated into the fabric of the web. That's some progress. How much, remains to be seen. Postscript: Kottke did a great job of skimming the surface of the newly opened Times when it first came online, just one week ago today.
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Tycho:  "Live Free Or Die Hard" is a movie where a man drives a car into a helicopter, and that may be all one needs to know about it.  For some reason, regardless of what is present in the strip, I found myself quite able to place my brain in neutral and roll down the film's gentle, sloping grade.  I thought that Gabriel would be proud that I had done so, but he was not.  He held the film to some higher standard, and on a very specific topic - its presentation of technology and technology culture.  I know, right? Look out your window; there's probably frogs and blood and shit.
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Cinematographer Ayananka Bose shares the tricks of his trade.
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Mahesh Bhatt's new film is a must watch.
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Anyone who has cringed while watching the home movies of newlyweds bumbling through their own corny, personalized nuptials will appreciate the comic potential of this British mock documentary
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Cleanliness has long been next to godliness for the hygiene-conscious Japanese, but fortune-tellers are now advising those who want to succeed in life to start by scrubbing the smallest room.
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It was domestic drama at its best _ the kind Italians love _ a scorned wife airing her dirty laundry for the world to see.Comment
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At least one Oscar nominee is still doing her own dirty work.
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A film is paisa vasool only if it gives value for money till 'The End'.