September 5, 2008: Say Anything This is one of the oft-referenced classics of ’80s teen cinema. John Cusack was well-known at the time but not yet a huge star. He’s another actor I’ve always considered myself to like, but I haven’t really seen much of his work. Grosse Pointe Blank really worked for me, though, […]
September 3, 2008: Boarding Gate I was on a bit of an Asia Argento kick recently. Typically that means that I research and read about someone’s movies/career, think that I’d love to see every single one of their movies, and then I don’t follow through at all, because spending an hour reading about movies is […]
August 30, 2008: Drillbit Taylor I’m a Judd Apatow trooper, so of course this had to come my way sometime. It’s another high-concept comedy, this one about some nerdy high school kids who hire a bodyguard to save them from torment at the hands of the standard Hollywood-movie-high-school antagonists, primarily jocks. The bodyguard is vastly […]
August 30, 2008: Zodiac I’m a big David Fincher fan. I loved Se7en. Fight Club was one of the crown jewels of 1999, which was a real peak movie year for me, with 4 or 5 movies that rocked my world, and that was one of them. I hadn’t paid much attention to Alien 3 […]
I want to blog about movies, reviewing movies that I watch. I don’t want to put a lot of thought into this, or feel guilty when I don’t get a review “right”. So let’s call the reviews half-assed and leave it at that.