by Erik Schlittner | Oct 28, 2016 | Reviews |
"My movies, like Stranger than Paradise and Down by Law, are also about social misfits experiencing the dark side of the American dream." Jim Jarmusch in The Simpsons, Season 19, Episode 18: "Any Given Sundance" PATERSON Everybody knows that New Jersey is...
by Erik Schlittner | Aug 26, 2014 | Reviews |
Remember when you were 15 years old and you refused to conform? When you hated your stupid high school and the stupid jocks and the stupid teachers who were trying to turn you into a fucking robot for the corporations, but they would never get you to sell out, no way?...
Let's Be Cops is a very good formula cop comedy that doesn't seem to have been harmed by the unfortunate timing of its release – less than a week after everything went to hell in Ferguson Missouri. This could have been a disaster, but the movie is entertaining enough...
by Erik Schlittner | Aug 12, 2014 | Real Life, Reviews |
Okay, so there's this website called Gofobo. You can get free passes to see movies, they tell me. Fine. I register, and in a few days I get a free printable pass to see Tammy (2014). I get to the theater a half hour early, and there is a huge line. But after waiting...
by Erik Schlittner | Aug 8, 2014 | Reviews |
Get On Up is all over the place. It wants to be a movie like 24 Hour Party People (2002) – the kind of music history film where anything can happen: characters talk to the camera, the chronology jumps back and forth, actual footage gets cut into the re-enactments....
Director Luc Besson likes to make movies about women who kick butt – Anne Parillaud in La Femme Nikita (1990), Milla Jovovich in The Fifth Element (1997) and The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999). His latest femme fatale is Scarlett Johansson in the very Lucy...