Notes from a Genius

"Sex, Love, and Therapy (aka: The Missionaries)" starring: Sophie Marceau, Patrick Bruel, Andre Wilms, Sylvie Vartan, Francois Morel, Claude Perron written and directed by: Toni Marshall Here is another rom-com from France about what we Americans consider a touchy, hush-hush topic: sex (and more specifically, sex addiction). Being a rom-com and the French attitude towards sex being way more lax and free, you'd expect this film to have more slapstick and/or humor spliced in it, but that's not really the case. It seems like French filmmaker Toni Marshall was trying too hard to be like the American contemporaries across the pond. What we get instead is a very formulaic film in which the two protagonists argue and don't get along in the beginning, only to set up the predictable ending of their conflict getting resolved, one of them realizing they should be together, and then the predictable "happy" ending. We quickly meet Judith (Sophie Marceau, lookin...

This past weekend I was scheduled to see the reunited band, At the Drive-In play in Boston at the House of Blues, but a few hours before, they had to cancel not only this show, but the rest of their tour, due to the singer being sick. I saw it coming, aside from their reunion being one of those "too good to be true" things that would last a long time (hell, the original guitarist, Jim Ward, left the reunion a few days before the tour even started), but they had also cancelled the previous two nights. Needless to say, I was pretty damn bummed. This is the second time I miss out on them, as they were also scheduled to play part of the Beastie Boys' and Rage Against the Machine's "Rhyme and Reason" tour in 2000 at Foxboro Stadium with Busta Rhymes and No Doubt. The entire tour though was cancelled when Mike D flipped over on his bicycle in New York City and broke a few bones. I was really pissed back then. I mean, look at that dream bill from 2000: Beastie Bo...