Coming of age under the influence of 90's films
In 1996, when I first watched Dead Man, I had just recently changed my college major from Aerospace Engineering to Education, with a specialization in English. Of course this film was going to bring out the nerd in me because so much of what Nobody, […]
Big Night shouldn’t have worked as a film. At the time, long before the days of the Food Network and a consistent rotation of Gordon Ramsey led competition/rehabilitation reality shows, a movie about a failing restaurant didn’t exactly jump to the top of my must-watch […]
Why is it that time spent on vacation often feels more hectic, and thus less relaxing, than time spent at work? Two weeks away and I’ve criss-crossed half the country a couple of times and now that I’m home I’m more wrecked than I was […]
I definitely felt like a victim of the old bait and switch the first time I sat down to watch Atom Egoyan’s Exotica. Thanks to some clever box art by Miramax, I was certain that I was about to enjoy an erotic thriller in the […]
Welcome to July! I hope you all had a wonderful month celebrating PRIDE. As we move into the new month I’ll be diving into the films of 1995, officially marking the beginning of the second half of a great decade of films. To celebrate America […]
It’s hard to like a film when you genuinely don’t enjoy the lead actor. It’s something I rarely worry about, as I only truly dislike one actor, but there are others I find tedious. Stephen Dorff is one of those actors. Aside from his turn […]
Why would anyone want to watch a film about the world’s worst director/writer, let alone make that film? Leave it to Tim Burton to give us the answer. After his adventures into the weird with Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, and Edward Scissorhands, it was […]
“Tomorrow its wrong. We only have to be right for a day.” – Alicia Clark Integrity will cost you. The price might include feelings of guilt, an admonition from your boss, or if you’re Henry Hackett, it might be a punch in the nose. But […]
I was just about to graduate high school in 1994 and the only thing more popular than blowing off your final classes to hang out with friends was the movie The Crow. Bolstered to pulp culture status immediately thanks to an amazing soundtrack and tragic, […]
I didn’t begin to enjoy Steven Soderbergh until the late 90’s when I managed to catch Out of Sight at the local theater. I fell in love with the movie instantly and then he followed it up with more films I enjoyed: the highly underrated […]