Fame (2009)

Fame is supposedly about becoming well-known based on real talent

The awful truth about no one from the Fame movie or TV show going on to become famous may not yet have dawned on the cast of this new and bizarrely pointless remake. Because there they all are, a whole new generation of volatile, yearning unknowns, now with mobile phones instead of leg-warmers, but basically it’s the same deal. And they are all eagerly signing on for the curse of Fame, like a happy band of cult hippies following Jim Jones into the jungle.

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Le Divorce: Everything sounds sexier in French

Le Divorce: Everything sounds sexier in French

“Le Divorce,” which is about contrary French and American standards for marriage, adultery, divorce and affairs, finds that the two nations are simply incompatible. While there are too many characters in too much story for the movie to really involve us, it’s amusing as a series of sketches about how the French think they are a funny race (or the Americans, take your choice).

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