May Flowers on their way
Gatsby's waiting on them. Have you – got everything you need?” Perhaps some more flowers…” Do you think it’s too much?” Well, we hope not. I asked Nathaniel to renew May Flowers for another year...
View ArticleHot Docs: LGBT Films
Amir here, reporting from the Hot Docs documentary festival in Toronto. There are a few films at the festival this year that deal with LGBT issues. Paolo has already reviewed one of them – though I’m...
View ArticleReview: Iron Man Three*
This review was originally posted in my column @ Towleroad When last we saw Tony Stark he was eating shawarma in New York City with his fellow superheroes in the stinger of Marvel's The Avengers...
View ArticleHappy Gabby Day
JA from MNPP here, wishing a very happy birthday to Gabourey Sidibe, who's turning 30 years old today. In the four years since she popped on the scene, seemingly out of nowhere, in Lee Daniels' film...
View ArticleThe Linkover
Vulture whose butts have we seen on Game of Thrones. Funny interactive even if you don't watch the showLA Times AMPAS just keeps on changing its rule. That board of governors is the fussiest and most...
View ArticleHot Docs Wrap-Up: Favorites and Oscar Prediction
Amir here, to wrap up my coverage of the Hot Docs international documentary film festival. The festival is regarded as TIFF’s younger, less glitzy sister here in Toronto but that doesn’t mean there...
View ArticleMonday Monologue: Musings from Queen Eleanor
Andrew here to kick off a theme week dedicated to my favourite movie related person of all time – Katharine Hepburn. Next Sunday is the 106th birthday of Oscar’s most fêted Actress and this week The...
View ArticleCurio: Kate Curiosities
Alexa here kicking off a theme week at TFE, featuring a very special actress. This Sunday I will not only celebrate Mother's Day but also the birthday of the inimitable (well, except by Catherine...
View ArticleTeam Top Ten: Oscar's Greatest Losers (Actress Edition)
Hepburn won 4 Oscars. Every win leaves a trail of four lossesAmir here, to bring you our newest Team Top Ten. You may remember we tackled the best directors of the new century in our first episode and...
View ArticleRemember When...
...Gwyneth Paltrow and Toni Collette were the hot new actresses Hollywood had to cast in everything?
View ArticleI Dreamed of Gatsby
Last night I had the wildest dream (with spoilers). Baz Luhrmann had delivered a Moulin Rouge! remake with vampire characters set in the world of F Scott's Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby". No matter...
View ArticleMay Flowers: Liz & Dick
May Flowers blooming daily in the afternoons… Andrew here to start things off. It only makes sense that the melancholic showers of Anna Karenina and The Truman Show would give root to the gloomy...
View ArticleTeam Experience: Great Losers, Actress Edition (Pt. 2)
As long time readers know The Film Experience started out as a one-man show. That man being myself, Nathaniel R. (Remember in Ye Olden Times when posting two goodies a week made you a prolific...
View ArticleHit Me With Your Best Shot: "Summertime"
For this week's episode of Best Shot, the collective series in which bloggers are invited to choose their favorite image from a pre-selected movie, we went to Italy for David Lean's Summertime (1955)...
View ArticleRed Carpet Convo: My So-Called "Punk"
In Red Carpet Convos, we discuss what the actresses are wearing. Which is really an elaborate excuse (not that we need another) to talk actresses. Today's returning guest is Courtney Enlow Hall from...
View ArticleBurning Questions: Great Soundtracks, Lousy Movies
Will people like this soundtrack more than the films it's for?Hey everybody. Michael C. here. Most of the time I try to find a topical question to address in this column, or failing that a universal...
View ArticleI Link You and Link You and Link You
You Should Be in Sweden attends the Stanley Kubrick exhibit at LACMA. It ends in June so go see it!JazzT here's another enticing image from the exhibit. Oh Nicole. Any mask you'd like me to wear is...
View ArticleBoats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into weak adaptations of...
Hi all, Tim here. Like a lot of you, I’ve been waiting on Baz Luhrmann’s brand-new, all-3D, all-CGI version of The Great Gatsby with a kind of curious dread, on the assumption that the no-doubt...
View ArticleGravity. Such a Tease.
I don't have time for a Yes No Maybe So this morning for the Gravity teaser but I'm all YES anyway. And we can wait for a full trailer (though really why can't they leave it at this perfect tease?) for...
View ArticleYes, No, Maybe So: The Butler
abstew here with another edition of "Yes, No, Maybe So". Tonight's trailer of choice Lee Daniels's latest, The Butler. Oh, and please be gentle–it's my first time... When last we caught up with the...
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