Clive James: By the Book
The novelist, critic, poet and author, most recently, of a new translation of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” relishes his defense of Philip Larkin: “Spraying cold water on a witch hunt is one of the duties that a critic should be ready to perform.”. By the Book interview with Clive James, novelist, critic, poet and author, most recently of a new translation of Dantes Divine Comedy.
Best Sellers: Paperback Trade Fiction: Sunday, March 31st 2013
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Perversity in Wartime and After
The director Liliana Cavani explores psychosexual complexities in The Night Porter and The Skin, both now on disc.. Liliana Cavanis controversial 1974 movie The Night Porter as well as her 1981 follow-up The Skin have both been released on DVD.
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Review - Fifty Shades Of Grey Is Abusive Gender Roles Disguised As Faux.
Here comes Valentines Day, and with it the cinematic arrival of one of the most anticipated screen adaptations of the year. 50 Shades of Grey, adapted from the novel of the same name, brings us a decidedly strict definition of ���be mine.��� The novel.
Fifty Shades of Grey review: Coy tots, interrupted
50 Shades of Grey is an S/M romance about a fabulously wealthy dominant man named Grey who makes a pretty young woman his willing submissive. So already, you can see how original the new story is. I mean, with the changed vowel and all. But heres .
Shock Me if You Can
A hundred years after “Rite of Spring” sparked an uproar in Paris, shock has grown mainstream, raising a question: Can art still shock today?. Many contemporary artists strive to shock and would love to provoke the kind of outrage that Stravinskys ballet Rite of Spring did in 1913, but that has become difficult to achieve as audiences are increasingly jaded.
Reel men at the movies: 50 Shades of Grey review
. 50 Shades of Grey hit theaters in Northeast Ohio on Thursday evening. In the crowd of movie goers that mostly included women, were Channel 3s John Anderson and Matt Granite who went to see the flick for their Reel Men at the Movies movie review.
Fifty Shades of Grey - movie review: Jamie Dornans torso.
Sam Taylor-Johnson has done us all a service. Shes eliminated most of E L Jamess writing in her efficient conversion of Fifty Shades.
Review: 50 Shades Of Grey is glossy but hollow and comes.
I never thought Id say this about a bigscreen adaptation of 50 Shades Of Grey, but its true: the damn things just not trashy enough. The urge is understandable. When Dana Brunetti and Mike De Luca bought the EL James��.
Russell Wilson Enrages Twitter With ���50 Shades of Grey.
. to get a glimpse of the shades. Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson got a peak at ���50 Shades of Grey��� on Thursday night despite the controversy surrounding the film, and gave his review on the film via Twitter.
50 Shades of Grey review - Digital Trends
Please, Mr. Grey. Lead the way. And now presenting a sentence I never expected to write, ever: I really, really enjoyed Fifty Shades of Grey. Based on a ridiculously popular and poorly-reviewed novel of the same name, the��.
Best Sellers: Paperback Trade Fiction: Sunday, March 10th 2013
About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the March 10, 2013 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending February 23, 2013. An asterisk (*) indicates that a books sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report receiving bulk orders. For an explanation of our methodology, visit http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers.
Fifty Shades of Grey first look review: some pleasure.
Fifty Shades of Grey first look review: some pleasure, occasional pain. 3 / 5 stars. Sam Taylor-Johnson has taken EL Jamess hardcore bonkbuster and given it the meet-cute treatment, writes Jordan Hoffman in this first take on��.
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Fifty Shades of Grey Movie Review: 50 Problems With the.
Fifty Shades of Grey unfortunately is a limp bore, writes Us Weeklys film critic Mara Reinstein -- find out why here.
Review: Fifty Shades of Grey is a vast chasm of emptiness with lots of sex.
Fifty Shades of Grey is based on E.L. James bestselling novel, and it plays like two chapters taffy-stretched to its composite atoms. The primary characters are Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson), an English-lit student whos so mousy, she all but.
50 Shades of Grey reviews : theCHIVE
This page is all Ive read, but its written exactly like some women sext to guys. I dont care about you biting your lip, quivering, or heavy breathing. Just send me a pic of your damn tits.
Fifty Shades of Grey review by Lisa Wilkinson. - Mamamia
A Fifty Shades of Grey review by Today Show host Lisa Wilkinson. Hint: Its definitely not what you were expecting. Save your money and dont go see it.
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Grey is 50 shades of awful
Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) is the most mysterious and desired man on the planet. He takes a fancy to Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson), a woman whose dullness is only surpassed by her naivete. They meet over the kind of convoluted plot usually .
Surprising warmth in Fifty Shades of Grey adaptation
���Fifty Shades of Grey��� author E.L. James should count her blessings as she counts her millions. Her best-selling book ��� which, despite its popularity, is pretty rough source material ��� was stripped of its worst parts and turned into a surprisingly.
Fifty Shades of Grey: A few shades better than the book
For anyone whos managed to steer clear of this phenomenon (lucky you), ���Fifty Shades of Grey,��� based on the extremely dull erotic best-seller by E.L. James, is about new college grad Anastasia Steele (Johnson) and 27-year-old Seattle tech.
Fifty Shades of Grey Is Not a ���Good��� Movie. I Loved It.
Fifty Shades of Grey is a ridiculous movie. Why are the main characters, Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, named like 19th-century ballerinas? How is it that newcomer Dakota Johnson (Ana) manages to come off so wry, stunning, and sensitive, while .
Television; Morning Cable TV Lloyd Bridges as Benjamin Franklin in The Whirlwind, on Channel 2 at 9:30 P.M.
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Why are Angry Birds so angry? Also, Maud Newton on Kubrick.
50 Shades Of Greys Reviews Are In! See What The Critics.
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic, TV-ad-for-bath-oil way. Dakota Johnson, who plays the��.
Movie Review: Fifty Shades of Grey
As in E.L. James, that is, the British author of the controversial 2011 runaway best-seller, Fifty Shades of Grey. And its her playing field, sometimes referred to as ���mommy porn,��� that we find ourselves in as the global cultural phenomenon (over 100.
First reviews of Fifty Shades of Grey are in
LOS ANGELES ��� Should you beat it to the theater on Friday to see ���Fifty Shades of Grey���? The verdict is in, and it seems that the critics have not been blown away by the eagerly awaited film. Based on the highly successful novel by E.L. James, the.
50 Shades of [Sigh]: The Disastrous 50 Shades of Grey.
According to its publisher, at the spike of its popularity, two copies of E.L. James 50 Shades of Grey trilogy were being sold every second. In accessible terms, that works out to more than one hundred million copies sold,��.
Fifty Shades of Grey Review: Romance on the Ropes
Reasonable minds may differ on the nature of the playroom in ���Fifty Shades of Grey.��� The naive heroine, Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson), first refers to it as ���that room of pain.��� The surpassingly rich���and, shades of Krafft-Ebing, sexually deviant.
Deans Reviews: Fifty Shades of Grey, Kingsman: The.
Deans Reviews: Fifty Shades of Grey, Kingsman: The Secret Service, The Houstons. Posted 7:48 AM, February 13, 2015, by Dean Richards, Updated at 07:55am, February 13, 2015��.
review: 50 lashes for Fifty Shades of Grey
Sadly, ���Fifty Shades of Grey��� doesnt entertainingly cross the line of good taste so much as trip and fall on it. The much-anticipated movie opens promisingly, with a bluesy Annie Lennox cover of the 1956 classic ���I Put a Spell on You,��� which fits the.
Fifty Shades of Grey review ��� making a bad fist of it | Peter.
Fifty Shades of Grey review ��� making a bad fist of it. 1 / 5 stars. Sam Taylor-Johnsons adaptation of the EL James erotica goes big on the red tape and very, very small on our heros legendary member, with results so awful��.
Fifty Shades of Grey: what the critics are saying | Film | The.
The first reviews of Sam Taylor-Johnsons Fifty Shades of Grey are in and the verdict is that its, well, solidly mediocre. The film, adapted from the EL James book that sold 100m copies worldwide, centres on Anastasia Steele��.
Review: Fifty Shades of Grey is 50 kinds of boring
Fifty Shades of Grey is based on the romantic novel written by E.L. James in which a student, Anastasia Steeles (Dakota Johnson) life changes when she meets billionaire Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan). VPC .
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Review: In Fifty Shades of Grey Movie, Sex Is a Knotty Business
At the end of a recent New York sneak preview of ���Fifty Shades of Grey��� ��� in the blackout between the final lines of dialogue (���Anastasia!��� ���Christian!���) and the first breathy notes of the last Beyonc�� song ��� a lot of the audience burst out laughing.
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Fifty Shades of Grey: What the critics say
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic, TV-ad-for-bath-oil way. Dakota Johnson, who plays the virgin English-literature major .
Fifty Shades of Grey Movie Reviews - What Did You Think?!
Universal Pictures Fifty Shades of Grey is now is now playing in wide release and weve created this spot for you to tell us and your fellow moviegoers what you thought about the Sam Taylor-Johnson-directed adaptation, starring Jamie Dornan, Dakota .
Best Sellers: Combined Print & E-Book Fiction: Sunday, March 10th 2013
About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the March 10, 2013 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending February 23, 2013. An asterisk (*) indicates that a books sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report receiving bulk orders. For an explanation of our methodology, visit http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers.
Review: Fifty Shades of Grey is as Ridiculous as Youd.
The feature-length adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey opens with Annie Lennoxs snazzy cover of I Put a Spell on You, a choice obviously meant to convey the ensuing SandM plot between recent college graduate Anastasia��.
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An Olympic cover-up and fiction from Curtis Sittenfeld.
Best Sellers: Paperback Trade Fiction: Sunday, April 1st 2012
About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the April 1, 2012 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending March 17, 2012. An asterisk (*) indicates that a books sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report receiving bulk orders. For an explanation of our methodology, visit http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers.
Does a More Equal Marriage Mean Less Sex?
He cooks, she cleans, they both work and take care of the kids. It’s the perfect egalitarian marriage. There’s just one problem.. Lori Gottlieb article explores the relationship between couples emotional and sexual satisfaction in their married lives; notes that studies have suggested that egalitarian marriages, in which relationship is built on equal power, may have unexpectedly negative impact on the couples sex lives.
Deans Review: Fifty Shades of Grey | WGN-TV
For a movie series thats supposed to be so edgy and hot ��� the best this could do is lukewarm. Books are always more detailed and can go places movies rarely do. Maybe thats one of the problems with Fifty Shades of Grey.
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A critical guide to productions in New York City, including shows in previews.
Fifty Shades of Grey: Film Review - The Hollywood Reporter
As the tens of millions of readers of Fifty Shades of Grey know, Christian Grey doesnt do hearts and flowers.
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11:00 A.M. (2) CAMERA THREE. Three Greek Plays. New adaptations from Medea, Electra and The Trojan Women by the La Mama Experimental Theater in New York City. The first of a two-part series.