French Kiss
Meg Ryan movies were a staple of my childhood. With consistent regularity the whole family would sit down to embark on one of Miss Ryan’s romantic adventures. Some were really… Read more »
Meg Ryan movies were a staple of my childhood. With consistent regularity the whole family would sit down to embark on one of Miss Ryan’s romantic adventures. Some were really… Read more »
Gone Fishin’ (1997) is one of the most insane buddy movies I’ve ever seen. Jill Mazursky’s scripting is a work of comic genius run amok like a manic Jerry Lewis… Read more »
I was pretty excited when I saw that the Criterion Channel would be streaming Buffalo Soldiers (1997) as part of their Black Westerns series. I can remember when this movie… Read more »
“We need to get bigger guns; big fucking guns!” goes the mantra of the final act of Tony Maylam’s delightfully schizophrenic genre mash-up Split Second (1992). In this film Kim… Read more »
I remember the first time that I saw Noah Baumbach’s Kicking And Screaming (1995). I became all excited when Carlos Jacott is at the airport carrying a framed one-sheet for… Read more »
Few filmmakers are even half as prolific as Takashi Miike. For that reason alone you have to respect him as a filmmaker. Miike has tried his hand at every genre,… Read more »
X is Y (1990) is classic Richard Kern. Since his heyday as one of the great provocateurs of the Transgressive Cinema movement Kern has been working primarily as a photographer…. Read more »
I wrote a piece recently about sensory memory. For me personally I experience sensory memory through the cinema more than any other stimuli. To Sleep With Anger (1990) in particular… Read more »
Mike Leigh’s film Naked (1993) isn’t so much concerned with the physical world of its characters, nor even its audience, but rather the spiritual world they inhabit. This assumption may… Read more »
It was undoubtedly gratifying to be the husband of one of the handsomest and most popular young married women in New York, especially when she was also one of the… Read more »