new hollywood – Page 2 – What is Best in Life

My Favorite Movies 45: Up in Smoke (Lou Adler, 1978)

isley.unruh / September 9, 2013

I was never much of a drug user. I mean, sure, like everyone else, I’ve tried plenty in my time, […]

Gummo is a movie people either hate or love. Or, more accurately, Gummo is a movie people either hate, or […]

isley.unruh / January 14, 2013

The Warriors is one of the manliest movies ever made. A gang of sweat-soaked, half-naked men run across three burroughs of New […]

isley.unruh / October 8, 2012

1982’s A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy marked the beginning of a remarkable 30 year unbroken streak of yearly film production […]

The A.V. Club, as part of its “New Cult Canon” series, recently published a piece on Hackers. While it correctly pointed to the […]

isley.unruh / February 27, 2011

Here we are at Oscars time again, and here I am reviewing all the best picture nominees again. Kind of […]

isley.unruh / January 10, 2011

So, even though I’m in film school now and people are making me write about movies, I still like writing […]

isley.unruh / September 19, 2009

I’ve had issues with “cute” dialog in movies for a while. I almost turned off Juno after ten minutes and even the […]

While watching It Happened One Night for the umpteenth time the other night I was reminded just how old the […]

isley.unruh / August 9, 2008

The world film community was rocked this year when pieces of three alternate movie scripts for Bad Boys 2 surfaced. […]