Review: Wes Anderson’s “Moonrise Kingdom” (2012)

by Rio Liang The incomparable Wes Anderson marvels again with his latest ouevre, “Moonrise Kingdom,” an unexpected love story between …

Film Review: ‘The Woman in Black,” sister to La Llorona and the Lady of the Lake

By Your Salonniere The terrifying images of The Woman in Black are burned on the imagination’s retina the minute you …

Blowing Up the Teapot, Part II: Destroy Your Idols

By Your Salonniere Who makes up your literary ancestry? Which authors stand as your lettered godparents, your artistic aunts and …

Film Review of Terrence Malick’s “Tree of Life”

If this film is a homage then Malick has also created a dirge for the self-built man of the past, an ode to childhood when kids played outdoors on long afternoons and made stilts out of coffee cans and manila rope or talked to each other through strings and cans. No Facebook, no Sony Playstations, no texting, no shunning neighbors for spanking their kids, no dual family earners, Tree of Life fixes our gaze on a stay-at-home wife, played by Jessica Chastian, who raises three sons while her husband, Brad Pitt, helps build a nation only to find he is expendable in the end.