My Favorite Movies 45: Up in Smoke (Lou Adler, 1978)
I was never much of a drug user. I mean, sure, like everyone else, I've tried plenty in my time, but I just couldn't ever get anything to stick I guess. Hell, I don't even …
I was never much of a drug user. I mean, sure, like everyone else, I've tried plenty in my time, but I just couldn't ever get anything to stick I guess. Hell, I don't even …
Gummo is a movie people either hate or love. Or, more accurately, Gummo is a movie people either hate, or are apologists for--and today I guess I will be taking the apologist tack. After all, …
The Warriors is one of the manliest movies ever made. A gang of sweat-soaked, half-naked men run across three burroughs of New York City, periodically stopping to roll around on the ground with men from other gangs …
1982's A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy marked the beginning of a remarkable 30 year unbroken streak of yearly film production for Woody Allen. As with any filmmaker that prolific, there are bound to be some …
The A.V. Club, as part of its "New Cult Canon" series, recently published a piece on Hackers. While it correctly pointed to the impossible allure of a young Angelina Jolie's face, I felt that it largely failed to …
Here we are at Oscars time again, and here I am reviewing all the best picture nominees again. Kind of reminds me of Valentine's Day, everyone knows it is a bullshit holiday and yet it …
So, even though I'm in film school now and people are making me write about movies, I still like writing about movies in my free time. Thus, I'm switching from the monthly "Internet Meme Monday" feature …
I've had issues with "cute" dialog in movies for a while. I almost turned off Juno after ten minutes and even the dialog from someone like Oscar Wilde can begin to annoy me. So I have some possibly …
While watching It Happened One Night for the umpteenth time the other night I was reminded just how old the romantic comedy "formula" is. Guy meets girl, guy gets girl, guy loses girl, guy gets …
The world film community was rocked this year when pieces of three alternate movie scripts for Bad Boys 2 surfaced. It seems the producers, in an attempt to cash in on the "indie movie" craze, …