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Carnal Cinema

Dr Andrew Cousins, tireless typist of talented testimony and tirades trawls and treks across the world with his semantic spotlight in search of the shining stars of this business we call show.

Accompanied by Marseilles cartoonist, Le Petit Dubois, Dr Andrew has shared lattes with the good, the bad and Michael Whiner. And no, he doesn't have a love child with Lauren Beckncall. They just play golf.
 

 

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Dr Arnold Bloomberg: Acting is like a triangle without corners

Method acting is a technique used by many leading Hollywood actors. Everybody from De Niro to Hoffman uses it. One of the leading teachers of method acting working today is Arnold Bloomberg of the Bloomberg Academy of Drama in New York. Dr Andrew Cousins, went to learn more. AC: What is your fundamental approach to acting? AB: For me acting isn't just about pretending to be somebody else. It'...

From the archives - Paul Verherverint

"You see he didn't start out as a robot. He was a policeman who was gunned down so naturally they transplant his head onto a robot body to keep him alive and turn him into Cybocop. But the thing they forgot was his balls, isn't it? He thought with his balls. They controlled his instincts. "Do I shoot the criminals? What are my balls telling me?" That was how he operated. Without them he's just ...

From the vault... The Reverend Aloysius Tork: The Lord's Critic

"The Love Bug features a car that comes to life. Is it powered by the love of Jesus Christ? We aren't offered any evidence that this is the case so we must, unfortunately, assume that it is in fact animated purely by the power of the Lord of Darkness. I still feel an urge to pray whenever I see a Volkswagen Beetle." Watching4Jesus.com is a website run by the Divine Church of Holy Interven...

Roberto Benito explains the love behind his Oscar winning film Wasn't World War II Fun?

"Is a very powerful love story. There is man. There is woman. Man falls over. Woman falls in love. Man wears funny hat. Oh no! Is woman dying of disease? Yes. Then man fall over some more. She get better. They get married. The end." Roberto Benitio is best know as the Italian comedian and film maker who directed ‘Wasn’t World War Two Fun?’ which swept the board at the Oscars two years ago. He...

Margaux Shapiro: Growing Old Disgracefully

It has often been said that men age and women mature. However women, like wine, tend to mature in one of two ways. They either ripen into something full-flavoured, with lots of body and a myriad of intriguing flavours or they turn onto an unpleasant, acidic vinegar. It's further said that there are no good parts in Hollywood for the older woman. Well, one person would take issue with that. She...