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...love to rip apart English professor James Wood’s distilled volume of literary wisdom with a series of detached, postmodern, snarling riffs. But I can’t. “How Fiction Works” is just too pleasant a read. With a soft, avuncular tone, Wood sets out to investigate a fundamental question—how authors utilize both verisimilitude and artifice to invoke the real—by surveying a series of writing fundamentals. He weaves in and out of novels and ideas through a series of thought-stanzas until reaching his goal: a satisfying...
...requires. Only one scene in the film felt truly comedic. Sidney sees the trailer for Sophie’s award-winning new movie, “Teresa: The Making of a Saint,” in which she plays a young Mother Teresa whose heart is torn between her love for a priest and her desire to help the poor. The trailer immediately provokes laughs because it raises the question that all moviegoers must ask at some point: “Why would anyone make this?” Unfortunately, this query applies all too readily...
...Million Dollars and 18 Months Later),” which borrows the hook from Michael Jackson’s “I Wanna Be Where You Are,” begins with MURS’ solution to all of America’s ailments: “Love one another / Realize there’s no difference.” However, MURS’ indignation at being branded a sellout takes over before long. He goes on to respond to the haters accusing him of abandoning the underground sensibility by listing his accomplishments in the scene?...
...would love to be able to say that I’m well-versed in American cinema, but when I really think about it, I’d be hard-pressed to name a pre-1975 film I’ve seen that doesn’t star Brando or Newman or the Marx Brothers. Though I’ve seen many of the best and worst films of the last two decades, I have little to no knowledge of B-movies or older exploitation films. To be honest, I hadn’t even heard the word...
...that’s both a relief and something to look forward to. This four-minute delve into gender dynamics attempts to push the envelope on a typical bedroom-themed video, but sadly, it’s the same old story. Boy meets girl, boy makes hot love to girl, and Usher dances shirtless across a shiny floor. —Shareen Asmat