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This year, my wife and I participated in the Pens to Lens contest where area students K-12 submit screenplays - some of which are selected and made into short films by area film makers. Outstanding event - a red carpet for the kids - screening at the historic Virginia Theatre. I'll post the films we worked in later but here's the trailer for the event itself. So good.

I'm no stranger to foreign erotica films. Stories like The Lover or the clever The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover - hell, even caught a few of the Emanuelle series. Last night we watched Blue is the Warmest Color - a tale of a young girl finding her sexuality (surprise) but the highlight for me was Adele Exarchopolous. She was asked to show so much on camera. A shy awkwardness, a vulnerable heterosexual experience, an eager homosexual experience, outward bursts while participating in a teacher's union march and on many occasions, sobbing. Most of the script was treated like an outline and the players were told to improvise most of their scenes. As a result, she became the youngest artist ever to receive the coveted Palme d'Or award in Cannes. Well deserved. 

I know I'm late to the party but over the past few weeks we've been binging on HBO's True Detective. Might just be one of the greatest television shows of all time. Creator Nic Pizzolatto takes us on a hell ride through the swampy south and into a world of corruption, cover ups and devil worship. Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey have never been better. Here's the original trailer. Dig.

How can a piss-ant, backwoods Alabama town host not one but two of the worlds greatest recording studios? Watch this doc (on Netflix) and get your education. So good.

The second season of the Netfilx original series Orange is the New Black is now up for your binging pleasure. We're being reasonable and limiting ourselves to two episodes per night. So glad to have this show back. Here's the official - careful, could contain more of glimpse than you want.