Who Wouldn't Want This Intern? The Intern Premieres

Robert DeNiro: Who Wouldn't Want this Intern? The Intern Premieres You have to love Nancy Meyers for her happy endings, and her optimism about women's lives. In her latest film confection, The Intern, a laugh-out-loud, melt-in-your-mouth bonbon, the adorable Anne Hathaway plays Jules Ostin, a workaholic founder of a successful women's wear Internet business housed in a chic downtown loft. Launching a senior intern program for retirees,...

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FILM REVIEW: COMING HOME

Dan Dan (Huiwen Zhang) in Coming Home. Photo Credit: Bai XiaoYan. Frozen, forgotten and finishedBy John EstherTaking vulgar, ideological populism to its extreme, China's Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and 1970s imprisoned thousands of intellectuals who were perceived as "counter-revolutionary" effete bourgeois elements who were trying to bring back capitalism to China. This Cultural Revolution measure, along with thousands of other counterproductive...

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FILM REVIEW: DRAGON BLADE

Huo An (Jackie Chan) and Lucius (John Cusack) in Dragon Blade. Can we all just get along?By John EstherGosh darn it. It is such a big production; it means so well; it stars Jackie Chan -- who is so cool; and it has two likable American actors: Adrien Brody and John Cusack. Yet Dragon Blade barely passes the entertainment muster. Inspired by, yet hardly accurately based on, historical events, writer-director-production designer...

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FILM REVIEW: THE SECOND MOTHER

Val (Regina Casé) in The Second Mother.Ma and orderBy John EstherIn one of the nice neighborhoods of São Paulo, an upper-middle class family lives a life of monotonous order where everyone knows her or his place.The official matriarch of the family, Bárbara (Karine Teles), seems to be of some importance to the fashion world. It is never exactly disclosed what she does, but we know it keeps her away from home during the week. Her husband,...

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