January 6, 2011 Natalie Portman: Lady in the Streets, Reportedly a Freak in the Sheets? By Catherine Sylvain Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan” is a movie obsessed with doubles: mothers and daughters, mentors and protégés, teachers and students, mirrors and reality, art and life, layering on the tropes thicker than Natalie...
November 5, 2010 Wild Target is Way Off By Catherine Sylvain “Wild Target” comes from that glorious tradition of half-baked English language remakes of successful French films; “L’Appartement” became the odious “Wicker Park,” “Dinner for Schmucks” was the messy a...