Coming of age under the influence of 90's films
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 […]
How many of you have made a choice and almost immediately knew you’d made the wrong one? We’re not talking about ordering the chicken tenders when you really want a burger, but the life-altering-things-are-going-to-be-different-from-this-moment-on type of choice. Those choices stick with you over the years. […]
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 […]
Did you know that Tarantinoesque is a legitimate word and not just something used by movie reviewers to describe a move that has an abundance of (witty) dialogue and (bloody) violence? I just learned this today. The Oxford Dictionary describes it as an adjective meaning […]
“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 […]
It sucks to feel alone. I realize that might not be the case for everyone, but for me, it’s far from ideal. Keep in mind, I’m not saying anything about being alone. Much of my childhood was spent alone, in my room, surrounded by the […]
The Film I hadn’t yet viewed any of the Three Colors trilogy by famed director Krzysztof Kieslowki and I’m not sure if Mothers Day weekend was the best time to start. The first film in the triptych, Three Colors: Blue, begins with a car crash […]
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, […]
When I was a senior in high school I met a young man for the first time who had somehow lived near my hometown for quite some time, yet I had never met him. He was an honest to goodness pot smoking mountain hippy who […]
The Film I went into Barcelona with low expectations because, despite the critical success and Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay, I didn’t really care for Whit Stillman’s first film Metropolitan. It’s a tale of a group of mostly wealthy bored socialites whose admittedly witty […]