Here’s a fun drinking game to play while watching, oh, ANY romantic comedy: Take a sip whenever you see (1) a girl reporter in the big city, who, despite working in print media, you never see actually working (or, okay, crying because her freelance check is late), (2) shots of the New York City skyline […]
Megan Burbank
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Unholy Matrimony
Maybe don’t ever get married if you
live in Israel
You know what seems horrible? Getting divorced! You know what seems extra horrible? Getting divorced in Israel! In Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, Viviane, an Israeli woman, unhappily married since she was a teenager, finally decides to put her terrible marriage out of its misery. Good move, Viviane! Only, thanks to arcane religious laws, […]
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Rebel Alliance
Nothing good happens in Mockingjay Part I
Mockingjay Park I is The Empire Strikes Back of The Hunger Games, which is to say that things don’t look good for anyone. Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss finds herself in the cone-shaped underground city of District 13, where the seemingly trustworthy but definitely shifty President Alma Coin (Julianne Moore, whose truly bizarre colored contacts distract from […]