James Lo, Chavez
Get Shorty - With this firm, self-reference joins irony
on the list of dramatic devices that intellectual ladder-climbers
find fashionable.
Scott Anthony Masciarelli, Chavez
Get Shorty - Why didn't they credit Aunt Penny?
Russ Waterhouse
The Island of Dr. Moreau - Far more engagin than the
book, if only because Brando's encroaching senility turns
this almost-serious film into the comic flipside of Apocalypse
Now.
Carrie McLaren
Jerry McGuire - Eric Stoltz was hot!
Ira Kaplan, Yo La Tengo
Deliverance - Ronny Cox loses his life, Ned Beatty
loses his manhood, Burt Reynolds loses his leg, and Jon Voight
loses his wallet.... Dusty and Sweets McGee -- American
hot spoon.... Big Bully - Arnold + Moranis = Touchdown
Helen Rush
The People Vs. Larry Flynt - I believe the immortal
words of Roseanne Barr are appropriate when describing this
film: "We're America's worst nightmare: white trash with money."
Kris Gillespie
Milos Forman's Flynt
is fine but instead you should
rent Amadeus.
Frank Longo
A Touch of Evil - The cinematic equivalent to Crypt
Records, underage sex, drinking in public, and your girlfriend's
roommate; you'll probably need a shower when you're through
... and I'm not kidding.
Clint Teakeda, Bardo Pond
Withnail and I - British-rubbing-alcohol-drinking-
good-time-buddy flick.... Fingers - This movie featuring
Tia Farrow and Jim Brown stars Harvey "the Henthmen" Keitell
who breaks fingers and plays piano with the best of them.
Michael Gibbons, Bardo Pond
Dead Man - This visionary Jim Jarmusch film subverts
the Hollywood Old West tried-and-true-white-man-slash red-man
juxtaposition with resonating images of Gibby and Iggy kicking
Oscar's ass.