00s movies
Movie Review: Bernie
3.5 stars out of 5 I don’t rush out to see Richard Linklater movies. It’s collateral damage as my Ethan Hawke boycott carries on. Still, Linklater and I go way back. The summer I graduated from college, his Slacker came out, which sort of defined my generation (and was set in Austin before Austin was […]
Movie Review: A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
3.5 stars out of 5 Just when we need them the most—well, at least, I do—Harold and Kumar are back. Their first film I consider a classic. The second, while not as great, was funnier than it had any right to be. By the third, perhaps afraid that fatigue would set in, the filmmakers add […]
The Collector
I see Larry most every day, if the weather’s OK, and I walk my normal route. For years I only knew him as the short squat man in faded t-shirt and suspenders walking a small brown dog down Bedford. Once, I was summoned: Excuse me! in a gravelly New York whine. Could you pick that […]
Daniel Johnston Day
Yesterday I wore my Daniel Johnston t-shirt. No special reason; it was near the top of my t-shirt drawer. (T-shirt drawer #1, anyway. I have a lot of t-shirts.) I first learned of Daniel Johnston when I was a college DJ at Pittsburgh’s WRCT. The station had a recording of Daniel doing an impromptu over-the-phone […]
My Highly Subjective List of the Best Movies of 2009
I like going to the movies. I’m like Binx Bolling, but without the charming New Orleans accent. So as 2009 reaches the end of its reel, or, uh, one last delicious digitally-projected byte—oh shut up for god’s sake—I thought I’d run down the films I liked best. Now, as I’ve aged, I’ve become more suspicious […]
I Was Willing To Give Mel Gibson Another Chance
Really, I was. Sure, there had been the anti-semitism and sexism, the homophobia, The Passion of the Christ, that Apocalypto piece of crap, and that crazy beard. I haven’t seen a Mel Gibson movie since Signs in 2002, and I only remember that it was awful, and there were glasses of water all over the […]
Dashed-Off Comedy in Response to Actual News Item
Disney has acquired pic rights to a new rendition of ‘The Diary of Anne Frank,’ to be written and helmed by David Mamet. ANNE: The fuck.MARGOT: This thing we got here, this—ANNE: Fucking fuck.MARGOT: It’s not like we—we couldn’t.MUMMY: Shut it. Enough.ANNE: You miserable piece of—PETER: Who knows what might be. Life is—MUMMY: Goddamn enough.ANNE: […]
Another Week, Another Movie, Another Memory
I went to the movies again. I really like going to the movies. And this time, I recognized the name in the credits right away. So it was only a matter of figuring out which character in the film was portrayed by this person from my past. The movie: Milk. It is a wonderful piece […]
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