photo: carrie wait The Gipper. Rudy. Charlie Brown. Ben Stiller’s character in all of his movies. Ashlee Simpson. Tommy Lee as a solo artist. The other white meat. We all love a good underdog (unless it involves the live action, voice-animated motion picture version of everyone’s favorite superhero canine … then it’s just plain blasphemy, […]
Starz DocNight – King of Corn (Aaron Woolfe)Director Aaron Woolf IN-PERSON! DocNight shines a spotlight on the genre from all angles—the investigations it undertakes, controversies it awakens and discoveries it makes—with Q&A sessions and filmmaker receptions to follow each screening. “King Corn” starts off a little too much like a re-visitation of “Supper Size Me,” […]
The Killing of John Lennon (Andrew Piddington) “I was Mr. Nobody until I killed the biggest somebody on earth.” Sure, it’s the tagline of the new film, “The Killing of John Lennon.” But it was line in the film that rang loud in my head, because it speaks volumes about the state of mind of […]
Teeth (Mitchell Lichtenstein) Horror movies scare the shit out of me. That is just how I work. Hell, jumping out from around a corner scares the shit out of me. I am a rather nervous person, and I can really get into stories, thus my inevitable fright watching even the lamest horror films.
