The Clever Pup

Scene from Hugo , Paramount Pictures   I first posted this story 2 years ago. I've just returned from seeing Martin Scorsese's ...

Scene from Hugo , Paramount Pictures   I first posted this story 2 years ago. I've just returned from seeing Martin Scorsese's ...

Milos Forman’s film Valmont came out in 1989, the year after Steven Frears’ Dangerous Liaisons. Both are based on Chloderos Laclos' ...

The themes of music and love tie Paris in the 60s together with contemporary Montreal and wrap the whole story up in a completing knot...

"Talk about a fulfilling movie. That's the kind of movie I could sit through again immediately " That's the sort of rem...

I originally posted this on Sept 3, 2009. I see that the book is about to hit the big screen with some big talent. Can't wait. It really...

Noomi Rapace and Rooney Mara, whose names are almost anagrams of each other, are actors who both play Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish and Ho...

In the autumn of 2012  the Art Gallery of Ontario will exhibit works by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo and her on again, off again husband Dieg...

Napoleon crops up a lot in my Art History and Paris Salon classes. The 19th-century French exalted him and then seemed cringingly embarrasse...

like what... okay... um... For me, uh... ooh... I would say... what, Groucho Marx, to name one thing... uh... um... and Willie Mays... and...

I saw a BBC drama yesterday called Recovery starring David Tennant (Dr. Who) who receives a personality-changing head injury that affects ...

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Woody Allen: Have I mentioned I love Paris? Please click on the link to see the article in the LA Times.  Photo - Woody Allen riffing on...

Is it time to try this again, I wonder. I carried it off very successfully in 1982. Could it translate today? Am I too plump and old? Annie...

Here I am blathering on about another movie. We watched Walk Hard - The Dewey Cox Story again on the weekend and I just caught myself singi...

I went to see Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law in Sherlock Holmes last night at the local rep theatre. Once I resigned myself that this wasn...

The Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, whose name aptly means "light" in English, ran a sucessful photography business before pe...

It was a very Godfather Christmas at our house. J-Pup received the Godfather trilogy and two annotated books about the making of the films...

"What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You-you want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it...

Audrey Tautou is about to go supernova with the release of Avant Chanel – the French film due out September 25 on this side of the pond, in...