Whether on TV or in the movies, there seems to be something innately fun and pleasurable about watching the world’s misfits and strangers band together, whether to save their houses from foreclosure or engage in some lighthearted piracy.
An Academy Award nomination is no guarantee of lasting prominence. The nominees of one year could quickly be forgotten the next; even winners occasionally get dumped from our collective memory.
An Academy Award nomination is no guarantee of lasting prominence. The nominees of one year could quickly be forgotten the next; even winners occasionally get dumped from our collective memory.
Here are two universal truths: Love hurts, and we can't get enough of sad love songs or films. Call it cathartic, or maybe just therapeutic, but our obsession with unhappy endings is a cinematic cottage industry.