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...also seems to perpetuate, rather than poke fun at, the ridiculous conventions of the Hollywood romantic comedy. What connected audiences to Bridget’s stories is that she was a more lovable version of us all, bumbling her way through mishap after mishap with an excess of charm. Sadly, in this movie, our everywoman, and, by extension, singletons everywhere, are turned into the nastiest joke...
...looks to get any girl—and he does, with an endless string of paramours ranging wildly from an aging cosmetics empress (Susan Sarandon) to a flighty, semi-psychotic teenager. But the car is borrowed, the suits were on sale, and beneath Law’s charming smirk is a calculating mind. Alfie has no warmth or romanticism, despite his British charm. The movie captures his gradual comprehension of that emptiness surprisingly well. His self-discovery is aided by the stylistic device of Alfie’s narration directly to the audience; in his self-absorption, Alfie considers...
There is something like ashy molasses in Ray Charles’ voice: dripping syrupy sweet with southern charm yet charged with gritty, unhewn candor, it resonates with a sense of immediacy and emotional clarity that is nothing short of divine. And yet somehow, even after seventeen tedious years of development, Ray, based on Charles’ life, does not muster any semblance of the splendor within his music. The film lacks emotional attachment on any level and fails in every way as a meaningful addition to his life and legacy. With a mix of deceitful, manipulative Hollywood story telling techniques...
Slight in stature but blessed with the sweetest of moves, The Guy Who Can Swing Dance turns on the charm. The ladies love him. Damn him! Not one of his steps is out of step, and the whole room knows it. He floats around the dance floor with partner in tow like a sexual butterfly. There he is, spinning and winning all the girls. I would kick his ass if it wasn’t for the huge man-crush I have at the moment. I watch The Guy Who Can Swing Dance and wish I had chosen...
...where the media had no freedom or were heavily regulated-and, until the late 1980s, that was the case in most of Asia. The Review had a discernibly expat, Hong Kong-centric perspective-Southeast Asia always seemed more important than Japan, the region's economic engine-but there was charm in that, too. "Travellers' Tales," a column poking fun at bad use of English in Asia, remained one of the magazine's most popular features, even when Asian readers far outnumbered expatriates. In 1997, the Review snared one of the biggest scoops ever in Asia: an interview with...