Pourquoi l’alimentation des bébés de familles à faibles revenus favorise-t-elle l’obésité ? Cette question se pose aux États-Unis où les chercheurs des Pediatric Academic Societies se sont réunis à Boston pour leur meeting annuel le 28 avril 2012. Alors que l’American Academy of Pediatrics déconseille l’ajout de céréales infantiles  dans les biberons des enfants, cette […]

The much awaited adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s classic is coming soon and is brought to the screen by director Walter Salles. An interesting choice – the director of Central Station is familiar both with adaptations and road movies, one of his last critically acclaimed films being Motorcycle Diaries. This should draw the attention of the […]

The International trailer for Prometheus by Ridley Scott is finally here! It reveals a great deal of this highly anticipated film. The trailer is nicely done: visually sensational, it leaves us craving for more! A team of explorers leaves earth on a ship called Prometheus to look for the origins of mankind. “How far would […]

Cette semaine, l’Hebdo Séries s’amuse à décrypter le positionnement politique des héros de séries télé, de la révolutionnaire Nikita au conservateur Dexter…

Rooney Mara during the filming of The Bitter Pill Looks like nothing can stop Rooney Mara from becoming the most interesting actress around! On top of replacing Carey Mulligan in Spike Jonze’s next film, the actress will star in Brooklyn, (adapted from Colm Toibin’s novel), in which she’ll play an Irish immigrant arriving to New […]

Son nom ne vous dit peut-être rien. Pourtant, d’ici quelques années, il pourrait devenir aussi célèbre que le plastique ou le silicium. Il s’agit du graphène. On discerne une parenté avec le graphite et on a raison. Il s’agit d’un matériau absolument révolutionnaire, un cristal constitué par une seule couche d’atomes de carbone. Oui, vous […]

Today’s musical post is from Top Hat (1935), directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Ginger Rogers and the man who simply reeked with class: Fred Astaire! This is perhaps the most famous bit of the movie, “Top hat, white tie and tails” was written by Irving Berlin, who later wrote the lyrics for Annie Get […]

Here they are at last! The first images of Quentin Tarantino’s next movie “DJANGO UNCHAINED” have been released today.  Sadly, we only get two appetizers of this much-awaited-for western à la Tarantino. Total Film reveals “Schultz (Christopher Waltz) is a former dentist turned bounty hunter who equips Django (Jamie Foxx) with the skills to rescue […]

Le CNC (Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée) vient de publier le bilan de la production de films en France en 2011. Cette publication, qui a lieu chaque année, sonne cette fois comme un communiqué de victoire, sinon de triomphe. Les chiffres sont «historiques», ils traduisent une vitalité exceptionnelle en des termes statistiques […]

It hit me while I was watching a movie about love, actually. Have you ever noticed how an incredible amount of post-80‘s romantic comedies include, at some point, an airport romance scene? With several tales of love at first sight, or love at second sight, awkward apologies followed by last-minute love declarations and sincere proposals […]