The Reader

 Is it fair that a movie with a 15 year old girl taking an older lover that spent a good 15% of its runtime with the pair romping around in bed would have been chastised for such lewd portrayal of an inappropriate romance whereas The Reader is garnering critical praise across the globe because the [...]

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The Duchess

Sometimes I think that I might just be a lesbian that likes sex with men.  Those times include whenever I see Keira Knightley.  I used to think that I hated her, for whatever reason, out of sheer jealousy that she’s so thin and successful maybe.  But every time I see her face, I just can’t [...]

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