'Vile Bodies,' a Little Lost in Translation
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Stephen Fry's "Bright Young Things" is almost an homage to Evelyn Waugh Â so careful and respectful that at times it loses sight of Waugh's snarling anarchic spirit.
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Cormac McCarthyÂs new book would be pure misery if not for its stunning, savage beauty.
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Flatulence, faeces, urination ... and all that's disgusting, sticky and foul-smelling about the human body and how it functions makes for an unusual but educational new Paris exhibition aimed at children.
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In âEastern Promises,â David Cronenberg delivers the human body in all its ugliness and glory, part and parcel of a violence mediated by nothing, not even clothing.
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I did not see the Japanese version of this story, but I will look it up after seeing &quot;The Grudge.&quot; This is a pretty good horror film.
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A frenetic remake of a cult classic shows how each film generation finds its own tone and terrors
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The familiar story of the innocent soul who travels from the country to the big, bad city receives a thorough workout in this crude attempt at a cinematic bildungsroman.
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âHomo Politicusâ ought to be a solemn book, but it reeks of unseemly glee.
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Just when she learned to love one body part, playwright Eve Ensler started to hate another. And that, says the author of the international hit "The Vagina Monologues," is how she came to write "The Good Body.'
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T.S. Eliot wrote that April is the cruelest month. He obviously never worked as a film critic, or he'd have known that this January was far crueler, both inside and outside the multiplex.
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Stephen Fry's new movie "Bright Young Things" is almost an homage to Evelyn Waugh Â so careful and respectful that at times it loses sight of Waugh's snarling anarchic spirit.
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Docs often convey critical medical information in jargon that most people don't understand. Let us know if you've encountered this situation. Should we employ medical translators? In Bodyhack.
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Despite Murder proving a big success, most producers still think twice when it comes to choosing an English title for their films.
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TOF 111: "Closer" and Hollywood's fear of erotic intimacy
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Debased, infantile and reckless in the extreme, this compendium of body bravado and malfunction makes for some of the most fearless, liberated and cathartic comedy in modern movies.
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Leos Janacek has entered the opera mainstream in recent decades, but this Czech composerâs final and darkest opera, âFrom the House of the Dead,â has been largely overlooked, perhaps understandably.
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In the 1975 film "Rollerball," the corporate world state of some futuristic society controls the bloodlust of its sterile populace through the brutal, sporting violence of a game. Being publicly educated and stuff, I never fully understood this.