Category: Movies/TV

  • Down With Love

    It’s pretty standard to call a romantic comedy a confection or describe it as effervescent but Down With Love truly is a fizzy-lifting drink. My mom is going to love this movie. Similar to Far From Heaven in that it is a throwback in style to a previous decade of style and film-making – but […]

  • S. W. A. T.

    Yes, S. W. A. T. is as stupid as it looks and after seeing it you will find yourself shaving in the mirror and screaming maniacally in an evil-Euro accent: ‘wun meeel-yun doll-erz!!’ With such great subject matter as the specially trained men and women that are called in when all else fails the content […]

  • Strange Days

    I hadn’t seen this movie in a long time. I remember watching it and feeling it was one of the most misogynistc movies I’d ever seen – right down to the first-person view of a rape and strangulation. But it’s directed by a woman – can a woman direct a misogynist film? Or does gender […]

  • Network

    I’d always heard that Network [more links] was a good movie and knew about the famous quote: I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore! I finally got around to watching the film. It is awesome! It is a fantastic Kill-Your-TV screed that seems poetic and prophetic all at the same time. […]

  • Jeepers Creepers 2

    Rented Jeepers Creepers 2 last night. I thought that it was sort of surprising that the script mentions one character as possible homosexual – his nickname is Izzy – short for ‘Is He (or Isn’t He)’ and that might be a slight tip of the assumed maturity of the audience to accept questioning sexuality as […]