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By J. Hoberman As its title suggests, “Pink Narcissus” is something of a hothouse flower. A feature-length movie, shot over a period of seven years on eight-millimeter film and elaborate sets ...
“He will bring them death, and they will love him for it,” a Roman senator says of Commodus, the unstable emperor in Gladiator, the 2000 film. In the movies and real life, chaos-as ...
How many Broadway shows has Christopher Plummer been in? Christopher Plummer has appeared on Broadway in 16 shows. How many West End shows has Christopher Plummer been in? Christopher Plummer has ...
NPD gets its name from a Greek myth in which a hunter named Narcissus saw his reflection in a pool of water and fell in love with it. A person with NPD may have an idealized self-image and an ...
Handsome leading man Richard Chamberlain, who came to prominence in the 1960s medical series “Dr. Kildare” and then became king of the miniseries with such ratings blockbusters as “Shogun ...
And then there’s devil-may-care Dorian, Oscar Wilde’s Victorian Era Narcissus who makes a dangerous bargain to preserve his beauty forever — at the expense of his soul. As his innocence ...
Sometimes it's not about the destination, but the journey. While that might feel hard to believe if you regularly face an unpleasant and sweaty commute on an underground network, some cities ...
There is a mesmeric quality to “Viet and Nam,” writer/director Trương Minh Quý’s ambitious queer romance about two young miners in Vietnam circa 2001. The film’s images, courtesy of Son Doan, are ...
Russian sex traffickers kidnap the wrong girl, unleashing stop-at-nothing vengeance from Statham in a competently made but instantly forgettable rehash from 'The Beekeeper' director David Ayer ...