Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan stars Natalie Portman as Nina, a virtuoso dancer who finally gets cast as the White Queen in Swan Lake. Her impeccable talent and obsessive dedication make her a perfect Odette, but her anal and repressed disposition prevents her from transforming into the alluring temptress Odile. Enter Mila Kunis as the voluptuous and enigmatic [...]

The new dark romantic comedy from director Ed Zwick is a definite must. Love & Other Drugs takes place in the late 1990s, when the pharmaceutical industry was raging and Viagra made its debut appearance in the bedrooms of impotent and frustrated men. Jake Gyllenhaal plays a pharmaceutical salesman who loves to get in a [...]

I recently stalked a distinguished and classic American gentleman whom I once met at a Yale College Master’s Tea. Kevin Buckley was the editor-in-chief of Playboy and the head of the Saigon Bureau for Newsweek during the Vietnam War. Since I’ve been so hard-up for a job lately, I have been reaching out to even [...]

Last night I went to a Google event called High Tech Meets High Fashion. It was celebrating some new shopping website with which Google has decided to corrupt the universe. There were a lot of celebs and famous fashion designers on the guest list, and I was put to the miserable task of hunting some [...]

The Social Network was a poorly plotted, anti-climactic movie that had the potential to be quite good. I’m really glad I didn’t pay $12.50 for it in the theatre and illegally downloaded it online like all self-respecting unemployed people.
But seriously, the only good thing about The Social Network was the fact that it accurately portrayed [...]

The newest Woody Allen film, You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, is a romp in the miseries of lovemaking. There is the older woman who has been dumped by her end-of-life-crisis husband (Anthony Hopkins) for a faster, leggier (prostitute) model. What’s a 70-year-old to do but go to a crackpot fortune teller for tea [...]

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is beyond satisfying as far as big Hollywood movies go. Michael Douglas continues to be the original pimp who makes a cigar into a lot more than just a cigar. And Carey Mulligan is great as Gordon Gekko’s estranged daughter fighting for liberal politics through a little lefty news blog.
I highly [...]

This is the 2nd episode of my mockumentary web series, Give Me A Job, about a recent Yale graduate, Haley, who is a bit too out of touch with reality and lacking in “office experience” to get a real job, especially considering the abysmal job market. Asperger’s anyone?
In “The Bottom,” Haley talks about her high [...]

Word of advice: never store celebrity cell phone numbers in your phone. It might seem like a good idea at the time–you’re out at a new club and you bump into Leonardo DiCaprio and somehow steal his digits from his bodyguard. Delusions of hobnobbing with Martin Scorsese dance in your head.
But it turns out you’re [...]

This video is the pilot episode of a mockumentary series that my sister and I made about a recent Yale graduate, Haley, who is a bit too out of touch with reality and lacking in “office experience” to get a real job, especially considering the abysmal job market. Asperger’s anyone?
It’s a MOCKumentary, I swear.
- Haley [...]