by Coeli Carr | Dec 3, 2013
They look feathery feminine and flower-petal sleek. But make no mistake about it. Those shoulder-level adornments worn by Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire are epaulets. Also known as epaulettes – the singular means “little...
by Coeli Carr | Sep 3, 2013
As soon as heterosexual boys hit a certain age, erotically feminine and Venusian attributes so highly prized in girlfriends become horrifically taboo when displayed and confidently owned by their own mothers. Of course, these restriction don’t necessarily apply to...
by Coeli Carr | Apr 2, 2013
At some point, people’s pasts catch up with them, or they catch up with their pasts. In The Company You Keep, Sharon Solarz (Susan Sarandon), who in the late 1960s was a member of the Weather Underground, participated in a robbery that resulted in a guard’s getting...
by Coeli Carr | Mar 28, 2013
In Renoir, directed by Gilles Bourdos, we see the Impressionist artist as an infirm old man in his 70s – still painting in his twilight years, but whose hands are nearly crippled and whose crumbling body is all but affixed to his wheelchair. What Pierre-August Renoir...
by Coeli Carr | Jun 27, 2012
Lovingly placed within Moon-themed “Beasts of the Southern Wild” is a bit of Venus-infused magic that occurs in an unexpected setting. Rambunctious Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis) is being raised by her seriously ill and often erratically tempered father Wink (Dwight...