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Love in the time of big hair and neon
Three teen romances from the 1980s
Let’s return to a time when girl-power had more to do with romance than showing a male superhero that she can be his equal. Follow links to rent online. Valley Girl (1983) A savage on ...
Beastly Boys
American Animals serves up four wannabe crooks who watch too many movies
The sounds of birds chirping and crickets grinding knee bones underscores the brief procession of film financiers and production company logos that precede American Animals. Then a quote from Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of ...
Johnny Rocks
Three instructional sessions from the school of hard Knoxville
This week’s column celebrates the opening of Action Point (and my interview with Johnny Knoxville) with a trio of non-Jackass related titles. All three available for rent on Amazon. The Ringer (2005) After Jackass: The ...
Johnny Knoxville, helicopter parent
"When they say something naughty, I’m laughing harder than anyone. But when it comes to their safety, I get really squirrely."
When a newscaster comes on the radio to report on a robbery foiled by an officer on duty, my mind instantly leaps to an image of a cop standing in a pile of doody. Needless ...
Seats and screens and sci-fi spectaculars
A moviegoer's reserved behavior
As a fan of both the Saw franchise and the two big houses at the Reading Grossmont, I reasoned that there was no better multiplex in the country to watch an opening-day showing of Jigsaw. ...
Triple-X entertainment
Project X, The Return of Dr. X, and X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
John Badham’s Project X (1987) What is an inordinately intelligent baby chimp like Virgil to do when, in the great tradition of Walt Disney, we open with the removal of not one, but two of ...
Between the covers, between the sheets
Fifty shades of gray pubic hair
Tale of the Tape: Book Club, Famed Dames Awards Edition — Jane Fonda (7 Oscar noms, 5 Emmy noms, 2 Oscars, 1 Emmy); Diane Keaton (4 Oscar noms, 1 Emmy nom, 1 Oscar); Mary Steenburgen ...
Our cup bubbleth over
Three films about living in bubbles, literal and otherwise
Watching Bel Powley break free from her single-room existence in the coming-of-age werewolf drama Wildling brought to mind this trio of trapped teen tales. Randal Kleiser’s The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976) Your basic ...
A five-star farewell for Abbas Kiarostami
The late director's final work, 24 Frames, makes a movie from his photographs
Just moments before I headed out the door for a screening of I Feel Pretty, an email arrived from the Digital Gym containing a link to 24 Frames, the final film signed by the late ...
