Alviro-Mario Fantini

“I only know celebrities,” Elaine Dundy, the first wife of Kenneth Tynan, once said. “I don’t know any people.” The…

Like 14-year-old Duncan (Liam James) in the rear-facing third bench seat of his would-be stepfather’s pre-minivan era Buick station wagon,…

Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing makes me feel like giving up. I still believe, believe it or not, that…

According to The Times of London, the girls of Britain’s Girl Guides movement, the equivalent of our Girl Scouts, fearing…

When it was announced recently that Kate Winslet was pregnant by her new husband, Ned Rocknroll [sic], a columnist for…

Although I enjoyed the first season of Mad Men, which aired in 2007, I got a bit bored with it…

Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s film version of Henry James’s novel What Maisie Knew (the screenplay adapted by Nancy Doyne…

The title of Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha is an allusion to something at the very end of the film, a…

Susanne Bier’s Love is All You Need is a disappointment. This is not because the title (the Danish title translates…

Everybody remembers the last line of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most celebrated novel, The Great Gatsby: “So we beat on, boats…