The Sweetest Thing
Director Roger Kumble and actress Selma Blair followed up the masterful Cruel Intentions (1999) with the raunchy romantic comedy The Sweetest Thing (2002) starring Cameron Diaz and Christina Applegate. This… Read more »
Tag: 2000s
Ghost World
Ghost World (2001) is a classic. It’s a film that I and all my friends in high school loved. We related to the cynicism of Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson… Read more »
Baise-moi
Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi have taken the popular maxim that all a movie needs is “a boy, a girl and a gun” and put their own spin on… Read more »
In The Cut
Jane Campion’s In The Cut (2003) is an erotic thriller drenched in sepia tones that re-imagines its idiom as a distinctly feminine experience. The rampant misogyny that often dominates the… Read more »
Valentine
Valentine (2001) may be based upon a novel, but its style and execution is clearly building off of Kevin Williamson’s hits in the slasher genre. For director Jamie Blanks Valentine… Read more »
Best Worst Movie
In Best Worst Movie (2009), Troll 2 (1989) actor Michael Stephenson turns his camera to the cult following that has grown around Troll 2 in the years since its release…. Read more »
Death Proof
Quentin Tarantino has become something of an institution. His films have been a cultural force since he broke out into the Indie Film scene back in the early nineties. Tarantino’s… Read more »
‘R Xmas
Abel Ferrara’s film ‘R Xmas (2001) reprises many of the defining themes of his earlier picture King Of New York (1990). In King Of New York, Ferrara depicted a city… Read more »
Surviving Christmas
When the box office bomb Surviving Christmas (2004) came to home video I was working at the local video store. It was a “mom and pop” establishment and the boss… Read more »
Reindeer Games
The latter films of director John Frankenheimer can be split between great films like 52 Pick-Up (1986) or Ronin (1998) and lesser films in which the director had little at… Read more »
