Reservoir Dogs hit the film community like a small nuclear bomb. I can’t remember a movie getting me so excited about what you could do with a little bit of money, some fine actors, and lots of beautifully profane rhythmic dialogue. Now that video clerk Quentin Tarantino is big shot director Quentin Tarantino the film …
God I wish I had written this movie. The ultimate goal of a writer is to pen something snappy and cast himself as the hero, and Quentin Tarantino pulls it off in spades. So you’re a bit of a flake. You have a huge Elvis obsession. You love comic books, and you know how to …
The 1995 Academy Awards were a great dividing line in pop culture. Either you were a Pulp Fiction man or a Forrest Gump supporter. I have to admit that I still haven’t ventured into Gump-land. I have this strict policy about avoiding movies about Southerners and Retards and Gump strongly violated both planks of my …
I have to admit that I pretty much have always felt that either Bing Crosby or Pat Boone was the whitest guy in the history of the world. To Bing’s credit he could actually sing and act, but there still never seemed to be much soul there. I was a kid when I heard that …
There seems to be nothing girls like more than really sappy depressing movies where someone’s true love dies at the end of some tragic disease. I’ve never seen Love Story before, but I did sit through all of the extremely painful Terms of Endearment and it has to be the worst movie I have ever …
“Who are those guys?” William Goldman’s elegiac script does a pretty good job of convincing us that Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and the Sundance Kid (Robert Redford) were the original Rock stars of the old West. After all, the Hole in the Wall Gang is at least as cool a name as the Hollies or …
Newman and Redford play two more guys who absolutely under no circumstances would ever consider getting a real job. Has anyone ever played so many likable losers with as little career ambition as Paul Newman. Fast Eddie Felson, Cool Hand Lucas Jackson, Butch Cassidy, Slapshot’s Reggie Dunlop, Earl Long? Not an honest day’s work among …
Jake: Well you see me and the lord have an understanding. Elwood: We’re on a mission from God. I am never not amused by the Blues Brothers. Some real Rock and Roll type people had a problem with John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd’s mediocre appropriation of Black Music as something of a bad gag, but …
Anita: You sleep until noon and then you watch Rocky and Bullwinkle and then you drive your cab what a couple hours a day and then you come home and order out food and then you play those stupid Tito Puente albums until two in the morning Winger: Tito Puente is going to be dead …
Redneck: What kind of cop are you? Reggie Hammond: You know what I am? I’m you’re worst fucking nightmare, man. I’m a nigger with a badge. That means I have permission to kick your ass whenever I feel like it. Not many people ever get to be the coolest man on the planet, but for …
Who would have ever thought back in the day that Warren Beatty would prove to be brilliant as a rapper and such a disaster as a white bread singer. The idea behind Ishtar was supposedly to update the silly fun of the Hope-Crosby buddy pictures, where a couple a schnooks parley their stupidity into some …
“You bitches from hell. You’re gonna pay for this!” Earl the harried truck driver. Thelma and Louise is grade A propaganda of the first order, sort of a female version of the Melvin Peebles Blaxploitation epic Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song with a little Easy Rider tossed in for good measure. In this case The Man …
The Last Boy Scout has a great opening scene. Wide Receiver Billy Cole (Tae Bo King Billy Blanks), hopped up on God knows what, is having the game of his life, which somehow is not enough for the gambler who calls him at halftime and insists on a winning effort. Memo to wannabe gamblers: When …
I think under different circumstances … You and I probably still would have up hating each other.” I generally find Charles Grodin to be almost unbearably annoying, and I haven’t seen even one of his Beethoven movies. Some genius decided it would be a hoot to let Grodin sprout his pestering wings at Robert Deniro …
“Hello, Sugar Tits” Was it really necessary to make four of these? I mean how original was the first one to begin with? People would have you believe that Shane Black was a genius for switching around the race roles of 48 Hrs. Danny Glover and Mel Gibson have some nice chemistry together, but who …
