Llewyn Davis is a perennial loser. The threadbare folk singer who trudges
through the slushy streets of the Coen Brothers’ latest cinematic triumph is
accustomed to failure. In the bitterly cold New York
“Beautiful things don’t ask for attention,” Sean O’Connell, played by Sean Penn,
philosophizes in Ben Stiller’s recent blockbuster, The Secret Life of Walter
Mitty.
The film follows the daydreaming, droll,
When Girls premiered in 2012, everyone had an opinion about the show. Some hated
it, some loved it, and others hated that they loved it. Questions arose like:
Who is Lena Dunham? Who
Simon Pegg and his pals Nick Frost and Edgar Wright are not only fabulous and
hilarious filmmakers: they represent the ethos of the geek, and are therefore
tremendously important cultural figures. In 2004,
If there is an Oscar for the category, “best glorification of the life of the
mind” then Hannah Arendt deserves it. Rarely have the classroom and the writing
desk glowed with more fervor