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The lovely Elegy is a searing, honest chamber drama based on the May-December romance between a New York public intellectual (Ben Kingsley) and one of his students (Penélope Cruz). The rap is that the novella is better, Philip Roth’s The Dying Animal. I’ve got it on order — it must be a hell of […]

Check out the trailer for Elegy featuring the suddenly omnipresent Señor Kingsley and a reliable indie contingent: Penélope Cruz, Patricia Clarkson, Dennis Hopper and Peter Sarsgaard. I love how literature can tart up the most commonplace of fetishes, a man’s mammary fixation:

Of all the good actors who have adorned the middle-aged-professor films… Ben Kingsley, in […]

The Wackness begins with great promise, fly girls bouncing through an empty subway car Salt ‘n Pepa style in short shorts, the soundtrack crankin’ music from one of the golden ages of hip-hop. It’s summer of ‘94. Shapiro (Josh Peck) just graduated from high school with 99 problems (and a bitch is one). But in […]