Grosse Point Blank
Martin Blank may be a professional assassin, but he’s losing his taste for the work. Unsure of what to do he heads home to Grosse Point Michigan for his high school reunion where he hopes the town, and the girlfriend, he left behind years ago will set him back on the right path. It’s sweet, funny, and has one of the best soundtracks of the 90’s.
Henry and June
“For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.”
Anais Nin knows a thing or two about love, romance, and lust. If you’ve taken a feminist literature class at almost any university you’ve likely been assigned one of her diaries to read. It was only a matter of time before one of them became a movie so it’s no surprise they chose her love affair with writer Henry James to adapt.
The Wedding Singer
Yeah…I can’t believe I’m including a Adam Sandler film either, but there is no denying the chemistry he shares with a favorite of mine, Drew Barrymore. The 80’s references grow tiring quickly, but there is a heart to this story which is almost always absent from Sandler’s entire filmography.
Chasing Amy
Kevin Smith mostly writes dick jokes about comic book characters, but in this film about love and sexuality (which at times comes off a little problematic) is…still filled with dick jokes and people who create the comic book characters Bluntman and Chronic. But in his own lewd way Smith writes and directs a story about coming to terms with love and all the hangups it entails. It also contains perhaps the greatest homage to Jaws in all of film.
True Romance
Who doesn’t want someone to look at them and utter the line “you’re so cool.” If you’re into comic books and kung fu movies like myself, you might think that’ll never happen. But eventually you’ll meet that someone who wants to go eat a piece a pie after a movie. We just never think it’ll be a working girl named Alabama, and we definitely don’t think we’ll have to go on the run after we kill her pimp and accidentally steal the mob’s drugs.
