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Jimmy So is a former culture editor and deputy books editor at The Daily Beast. Follow him on Twitter @jimmyso.

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ScarJo’s Alien Seductress

Predator

The ‘Sexiest Woman Alive’ plays an otherworldly being who lures men to a dark room with the promise of kiss kiss bang bang. Is there a better metaphor for movie-going?

Jimmy So | Published Apr 03, 2014

‘Nymphomaniac’ Not About the Sex

Fire of My Loins

While you are engineered to fixate on all that naked grunting in 'Nymphomaniac,' you might miss Charlotte Gainsbourg in the most raw and intense performance of the year.

Jimmy So | Published Mar 21, 2014

The First ‘True Detective’

Obsessive-Compulsive Noir

<p>Two detectives and millions of viewers consumed with solving wayward clues in the hunt for a killer—we’re talking about <i>Twin Peaks</i>, of course.</p>

Jimmy So | Published Mar 14, 2014

'Japan’s Beethoven' Olympics Shame

Thin Ice

Turns out, a beloved deaf composer who ‘wrote’ music for the Olympics is neither deaf nor a composer—and his scandal threatens to derail his country’s figure-skating hopes.

Jimmy So | Published Feb 12, 2014

This Week’s Hot Reads

Fun and Thrills

<p>Three novels that make for clever and fun reading: from a <i>Lost</i>-like fantasy to a satire of the Irish boom.</p>

Jimmy So | Published Feb 11, 2014

Confession of a Nazi Collaborator

The Sorrow and the Pity

<p>Claude Lanzmann, the director of the Holocaust masterpiece <i>Shoah</i>, controversially falls under the spell of a Jewish collaborator of the death camps.</p>

Jimmy So | Published Feb 07, 2014

This Week’s Hot Reads

Origins

From a look at the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the life of the American poet E.E. Cummings.

Charles Shafaieh, Jimmy So | Published Feb 03, 2014

The Oscar Foreign Film Festival

Screening Room

The start of every year brings a swell of great international movies that miss out on being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Jimmy So | Published Feb 02, 2014

Can Robots Fall in Love?

A.I.

<p>The interesting question raised by Spike Jonze’s new film, <i>Her</i>, is not whether humans can fall in love with computers,but whether computers would ever have emotions.</p>

Jimmy So | Published Dec 31, 2013

The Year in Death

Lives

You’ve already read the major obits. From Hitler’s bodyguard to the godmother of burlesque, the human computer to the world’s ugliest dog, the 2013 exits you have may not have heard of.

Michael Moynihan, Caitlin Dickson, Jimmy So | Published Dec 30, 2013

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