When I was a boy, I used to love Saturday afternoons. I’d always get up early to watch countless hours of horror and science fiction films that were shown on the afternoon TV matinees. While my favorite movies were the ones that featured large rubber-suited monsters, like Godzilla, there wasContinue Reading
Boogie Nights tells the unusual story of Eddie Adams, a teenager endowed with a special gift — a 13 inch special gift, to be exact. The film chronicles Eddie’s foray into the world of adult films and his encounters with some of that genre’s truly unique characters. Assuming the screenContinue Reading
Ever since he wowed the world with Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino’s kept a rather low profile. Well, as a director anyway. Aside from some attempts at acting (From Dusk ’til Dawn, Destiny Turns on the Radio) and a rumored turn at the helm of The X-Files that never turned out, we haven’t seenContinue Reading
James Cameron must feel quite vindicated by the current success of his $200 million epic, Titanic. Over the past year, the movie was deemed a failure waiting to happen as story after story of the studio’s concern about the movie’s budget leaked out. But, after just over three weeks inContinue Reading
When I originally saw this movie, I worked in a bookstore. Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil is a book that I’d been told to read by countless customers but I never got around to it. After seeing this movie, I’m not so sure I ever will. That’sContinue Reading
Former Showgirl Gina Gershon plays Corky, a lesbian ex-con, who’s found a job doing maintenance in a condominium complex owned by mobsters. She finds herself the object of next-door neighbor Violet (Jennifer Tilly), a sometime prostitute who lives with Caesar (Joe Pantoliano), a mob money launderer. Violet feels something isContinue Reading
Julia Roberts’ true acting career started out with this fine little movie about love and life in the fishing community of Mystic, Connecticut. In the film, Julia plays Daisy, one of two sisters working at a pizzeria called Mystic Pizza. Daisy is basically a slacker, who lives off her looksContinue Reading