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A teacher comes under fire for a sex tape in Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn , the Berlin Film Festival competition entry from Romanian writer-director Radu Jude ( Aferim! ). We first meet Emi (Katia Pascariu) when she is engaged in graphic sex with her husband, who’s filming an amateur video. She’s wearing a feline eye mask, and then a pink wig. For the rest of the film, she is dressed in a bland grey suit and a medical face mask. Like many Berlin features, this was made during the pandemic, and the cast typically wears masks. This Covid era lends additional tension as Emi goes about her day, running errands while trying to minimize the damage done by the video, which was put online and is now being shared by pupils. Related Story Berlin Review: 'Tina' Documentary Paints Vivid Picture Of Musical Legend Tina Turner This is a world where misinformation spreads as rapidly as a sense of righteousness — or indeed, an infectious disease. It’s a sexist, … [Read more...] about Berlin Review: Radu Jude’s ‘Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn’ Offers Dark Laughs & Indictment Of Modern-Day Society

Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin co-directed the sports documentary Undefeated in 2011, and their Berlin Film Festival Special Gala, Tina , could have shared the same title. While this is set in the world of music, its emphasis is on the resilience, survival and comeback of its subject, singer Tina Turner . Featuring a contemporary interview with Turner herself, the HBO Documentary Films title mixes talking heads with archive interviews and footage to paint a vivid picture of a musical legend. This is clearly an authorized biography — it’s executive produced by Turner’s husband, Erwin Bach — but it has enough verve and insight to entertain and enlighten. People magazine interview in which Tina revealed she’d been abused by her former husband and musical partner, the late Ike Turner. Commencing her contemporary interview, Tina says she had reservations about speaking out back then, so she asked her psychic what was going to happen. The psychic reassured her it … [Read more...] about Berlin Review: ‘Tina’ Documentary Paints Vivid Picture Of Musical Legend Tina Turner

The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll, who survived an abusive marriage to rebuild herself as a superstar solo artist, looks back over her life and career in this inspirational portrait for HBO. Toward the end of Tina , the revealing documentary tribute by Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin for HBO, Tina Turner is seen in an extended concert clip performing the Beatles' "Help" as a decelerated ballad — intimate, melancholy and full of feeling. It's the polar opposite of so many of her most iconic stage moments, either as an R&B human tornado or a growling rock 'n' roll lioness. But the takeaway from this uplifting look back over Turner's tumultuous life and five-decade career in music is that she got where she is not by relying on the help of others but through her own remarkable resilience and self-determination. In the #MeToo era, Turner's story is more relevant than ever, particularly because she spoke out about the ordeal of her marriage at a time when the majority of women in the public … [Read more...] about ‘Tina’: Film Review | Berlin 2021

Getty Dr. Seuss books have been beloved by children and adults for generations, but 6 of them will no longer be published because they are racially offensive ... according to the business that preserves the author's legacy. Dr. Seuss Enterprises says these 6 Seuss books -- including "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" and "Scrambled Eggs Super!" -- "portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong." Vanguard Press/Random House The company says it made the decision to cease sales on these books -- which also include "If I Ran the Zoo," "McElligot’s Pool," "On Beyond Zebra!" and "The Cat’s Quizzer" -- after consulting with educators and reviewing its catalog. Vanguard Press/Random House The announcement was made on Tuesday, March 2 -- Dr. Seuss's birthday -- though the decision was made last year. The move comes as President Biden also omitted mention of Dr. Seuss on Read Across America Day ... which is held annually on the author's … [Read more...] about 6 Dr. Seuss Books Won’t Be Published Anymore Due to Racist Imagery

Welcome to Too Long; Didn’t Watch , a TV podcast produced by Rolling Stone and OBB Sound, presented by Google Assistant, and hosted by yours truly. In each episode, we attempt a new method of scaling Peak TV, by pairing a celebrity guest with a series they’ve never seen and showing them only the very first and very last episodes, to see if they can figure out what in the world happened in between. We decided to try something a little different this week, by matching our latest guest star with a show where she had not only seen the pilot already, she was in the pilot. In the same pilot season where Gillian Jacobs booked the role of Britta on Community , she was also hired for what was meant to be a recurring role on The Good Wife as Sonia, an assistant to both Alicia Florrick (Juliana Margulies) and Cary Agos (Matt Czurchy) as they competed for what was meant to be a single associate position at the law firm. It’s not uncommon for actors to take multiple roles in the … [Read more...] about ‘Too Long; Didn’t Watch’ Recap: Gillian Jacobs Cross-Examines ‘The Good Wife’