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Spring Breakers is shockingly bad
SPRING BREAKERS (94 minutes) (R18) Directed by Harmony Korine Starring Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, James Franco I’m not sure what it was based on, but I had high hopes for Spring Breakers. I think I thought, James Franco knows what he’s doing, those Disney girls finally have a chance to prove their acting chops, it looks a bit experimental and indie, I’ll give it a go
Selena Gomez: I made Justin cry
Selena Gomez has taken a jab at ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber claiming to have made the pop star cry.
Hudgens talks ‘beautiful’ sex scene
Vanessa Hudgens says her threesome scene in Spring Breakers is “really beautiful and artistic”. The 24-year-old American actress appears in director Harmony Korine’s drama about four girls who end up turning to crime to fund their Spring Break trip
Bugarach: The French City That Will Survive the Apocalypse?
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Los Alamos Is Only the Latest of New Mexico’s Travails
Residents across New Mexico might be wondering what they did to anger Mother Nature. Ever since 2011 arrived on the scene, the weather has been nothing but ugly, beginning with a terrifying winter and now terrifying fires with the nebulous possibility of nuclear contamination
Brad Pitt on the Mystery of Terry Malick
For Brad Pitt, the Cannes Film Festival is almost a perennial rite of spring. He’s been there four of the past five years, either with his own films A UNIQUE SHOT Your part of the movie was shot ages ago.
Love to Barbecue? Ditch the Gas Grill, Fire Up the Coals
I hate gas grills. Perhaps hate is too strong a word
Art: China’s Revamped National Museum
Spring flowers bloomed and soldiers could be seen goose-stepping across Tiananmen Square as I walked through the recently renovated National Museum in Beijing. A new exhibit, “The Road of Rejuvenation,” promised to highlight “the glorious history of China under the leadership of the Communist Party.” So what’s included in a permanent show that contains 2,220 “First-Rank Cultural Objects” and occupies roughly one-fifth of the massive museum’s exhibition space
Another Ice Age?
In Africa, drought continues for the sixth consecutive year, adding terribly to the toll of famine victims. During 1972 record rains in parts of the U.S., Pakistan and Japan caused some of the worst flooding in centuries.