As usual, as I do each year (each year, at least, since first creating this blog), and as you expect me to do, I have compiled my top ten list for 2017. Also as usual, that list includes five honorable mentions. Not at all as usual, I’ve generously expanded this annual enterprise to include two of … Continue reading
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TV Review: The Girlfriend Experience
If you’re not already watching Starz’ The Girlfriend Experience, might I suggest you start now; now in its second season, the show has completely changed face by moving on from its season one arc, involving the great Riley Keough, to a dual-narrative that respectively involve Anna Friel and Louisa Krause, and Carmen Ejogo. It’s still a … Continue reading
WBUR’s Fall TV Preview Guide-o-matic
I put together a big ol’ list piece for The ARTery about what’s coming to television this Fall season. There’s a lot! Some of it even looks good! (Some of it, by contrast, looks like hot garbage, but I didn’t write about any of that stuff. I just wrote about stuff that I think looks … Continue reading
A Useful Review: The Girlfriend Experience, 2009, dir. Steven Soderbergh
There are probably specific expectations some might impose upon a film whose lead is a famous and popular porn star; for example, the promise of erotic visuals, the thrill of the voyeurism inherent to watching porn, and of course, chief of them all, the guarantee of smoldering on-screen sex. Why else would you hire Sasha … Continue reading