Monthly Archives: November 2003

DICK BABY

By | November 2003

While obtuse metaphorical lyrics might pass as intelligent poetry in song, on screen, as in “Dick Baby,” it merely comes across as confusing as hell…

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DICK BABY

Best friends are often very different types of people. Max Baumgarten (Jhon Doria), for instance, is the hunky renegade sort, while his best friend since...

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GIVING IT UP (DVD)

Whenever a film offers up the customary Don Juan role it is done without acknowledging the one basic fact that this character repels most men. Essentially...

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THE 4TH TENOR (DVD)

Rodney Dangerfield's new film "The 4th Tenor" was released straight-to-video. It should have gone straight-to-the-garbage-can. The 81-year-old...

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STEVIE (DVD)

Stevie isn’t just another documentary. Unlike many releases in that genre, it isn’t just a fly-on-the-wall narrative in which the filmmakers are merely...

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GROWIN’ A BEARD (DVD)

As Scotty McAfee says in one of the three audio commentaries on this DVD, “Growin’ a Beard” is “the story of a town trying to hang onto its...

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CHEMICAL BONDS

One stroke of genius informing Roger Corman’s seminal LSD movie "The Trip" was the understanding that the psychedelic experience is best addressed in...

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THE SCHEME

Who knew? Who knew that it was still possible to make an eighties sex comedy? Oh, sure, I realize that this movie was made in the year 2000, and is finally...

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LATE FOR WORK

The most effective scene in "Late For Work" is a slow pan of a wall festooned with hastily made missing people fliers. These types of scenes, just like the...

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SPOTLESS

"Spotless" is the kind of movie that should be watched by those kids in high school who are always being picked on for one reason or another ... and then...

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GLOOMY SUNDAY

Apparently Barry Manilow isn’t the only one who can write the tunes that make people want to kill themselves. In 1930’s Budapest, a song called...

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