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We’re so enamored with the love story, with its promise of happy endings and the sunny side of life, that watching a film about the dissolution of a marriage triggers deep feelings of loss and sadness. Blue Valentine is a difficult, heartbreaking film, but it’s also essential viewing if only for offering a corrective to all of the tales of blissful, uncomplicate

Felicia Feaster was born in Jimmy Stewart's hometown of Indiana, Pennsylvania.  She received her B.A. in film studies from the University of Florida and her M.A. in film studies from Emory University.  Her master's thesis on exploitation film became a book, Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Film co-authored with fellow lowbrow connoisseur, husband and filmmaker Bret Wood ( Hell's Highway , Psychopathia Sexualis ) and a Kino Lorber DVD series .  A former staff art and film critic for Atlanta’s alternative newsweekly Creative Loafing, Felicia is currently a managing editor at HGTV.com and TravelChannel.com and the art critic for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution .  Her writing has appeared in Elle , The Economist , New York Press , Atlanta magazine, Sculpture , Art in America , Travel + Leisure , Artnews , Playboy online and Art Papers .  She has curated exhibitions for the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center and TEW Galleries in Atlanta. She has received mul

Natalie Portman loses her mind in the exquisitely gothic Black Swan Just Dance by Felicia Feaster Courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures Nina (Natalie Portman) has got a real nasty case of pink eye Black Swan Starring Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder, and Vincent Cassel Directed by Darren Aronofsky Rated R

The Company Men is relevant but heavy handed at times In Good Company by Felicia Feaster Courtesy of Odyssey Entertainment These guys really wish they hadn't spent all their money on suits The Company Men Starring Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Tommy Lee Jones, Rosemarie DeWitt, Kevin Costner, Craig T. Nelson, and Maria Bello Directed by John Wells Rated R