July 9, 2010
Culture
Luc Besson has a business model. The writer-director of such compelling action films as La Femme Nikita, The Professional and The Fifth Element has now founded EuroCorp films with a simple plan: make American-style action pictures with American-style stars but set them in France. It worked with Taken, an almost-too-efficient thriller with solid values and [...]
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June 11, 2010
Culture
A funny story. When Showtime’s The Tudors first came out, it was given a preview on some non-premium cable channel (USA? I can’t remember). So I tuned in and watched the first episode and thought, “I don’t really get the point of this.” Only much later did I realize that, in this non-premium version, all [...]
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