Movies & TV

Breakdancing (along with bandannas and stonewashed denim) is preserved forever in these amazing films. Learn by watching, but remember these people are professionals, so don’t get too ambitious–even Alfonso Ribeiro fucked up his neck on a spin. Wild Style (1983)–Scooby-Doo!!! This is the original breakdancin’, graffiti-sprayin’, old school rappin’ movie. Zoro is screwed: His girlfriend […]

Thursday, October 19 8:00 NBC FRIENDS Chandler and his future father-in-law celebrate the upcoming wedding by buying each other lap-dances. 8:00 WB GILMORE GIRLS Rory is forced by her unfeeling grandparents to play “the sport of fools”–golf! Friday, October 20 8:00 CBS THE FUGITIVE Dr. Kimble gets a fake ID! Whoooooo! Let’s go to the […]

MOVIES & EVENTS Almost Famous Cameron Crowe’s film about groupies, Lester Bangs, and learning to ROCK in the ’70s. The truth of the matter is that this film is nothing more or nothing less than a light and entertaining crowd pleaser. Fine, but it still comes across so…clean. Like R-rated content in a PG-13 package. […]

THERE ARE MANY FLAWS with Portland filmmaker/producer/writer Andrew Dickson’s Good Grief–the plot development is slightly thin, the scenes aren’t 100% cohesive, a couple of the players should be banned from acting forever (Richard Meltzer –dear god!). But then that’s something you’d expect from a first feature film that took five years to make on a […]

THINGS COULDN’T GET much worse for Dudley Moore. His career has been ruined and his health imperiled by the degenerative brain disorder progressive supranuclear palsy, and his time may indeed be running short. To add insult to this injury, the film containing his best performance (and best-known, outside of Arthur) has been remade in slapdash […]

Somewhere along the line, I developed a need to see any movie even remotely involving time travel. I’ll sit through hours of crap if I know the words “temporal distortion” will be uttered. Come, take my hand and let my wasted hours enrich your life. 12 Monkeys (1995)–Time travel and human error form a tragic […]

Thursday, October 12 8:00 WB GILMORE GIRLS Omigod… I love this show! (And, btw, NBC’s Ed is full of crap!) 10:00 NBC E.R. Season Premiere! Carter returns from rehab just in time for a riot in the E.R.! Whoopee! Friday, October 13 8:30 WB GROSSE POINTE Hunter (the Shannon Doherty character) starts stuffing her face […]

MOVIES & EVENTS Almost Famous Cameron Crowe’s film about groupies, Lester Bangs, and learning to ROCK in the ’70s. American Pimp The Hughes Brothers (Menace II Society), using nothing but a 16mm camera and their unadulterated obsessions, document the Black American Pimp: the Blaxploitation hero/cultural caricature of our often-hysterical, sexed-up society. Winner of last year’s […]

EDITH SITWELL ONCE WARNED that homosexuals should keep their perversion to themselves, rather than making art about it. “Don’t let them write bad books,” she told a lunch companion. “It will only discourage young people.” Nowhere has bad art been more discouraging than in the realm of youth-homo films, where “liberation” has given us a […]

The Criterion Collection is synonymous with all that is good about home video. Foreign, cult, arthouse, the odd blockbuster, and more are a part of this studio’s master plan for home entertainment domination. Here are three of their recent releases: Kwaidan (1964)–Nominated for the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 1965, Kwaidan is a stunningly beautiful […]