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Review: ELEPHANT

October 26, 2003 Rich Drees

In Elephant, director Gus Van Zant takes us through a normal, almost banal day at a suburban Oregon high school whose student body is as varied as any high school in the country. There are [click for more]

Review: INTOLERABLE CRUELTY

October 12, 2003 Rich Drees

Miles Massey (George Clooney) has it all. As a divorce lawyer, his Massey Pre-nuptial Agreement is considered the most ironclad in the business. He is so successful he has a tab at the local Mercedes [click for more]

Review: KILL BILL, VOLUME 1

October 11, 2003 Rich Drees

Director Quentin Tarantino has never hid his love for 1970s exploitation genre films. His occasional film festivals held in Austin, Texas in conjunction with the Austin Film Society have often featured forgotten and nearly-forgotten grindhouse [click for more]

Review: LOST IN TRANSLATION

October 4, 2003 Rich Drees

Bob Harris (Bill Murray) is a stranger in a strange land. A movie actor whose career has seen better days, he finds himself in Tokyo working as a pitchman for a Japanese brand of whiskey. [click for more]

Script Review TIME BANDITS II

October 1, 2003 Rich Drees

By Charles McKeown Second Draft September 4, 1996 In 1981 Monty Python member Terry Gilliam released Time Bandits, his first major step away from his work with the British comedy troupe and a film that [click for more]

Review: BUBBA HO-TEP

September 21, 2003 Rich Drees

It’s an audacious concept. An aging Elvis Presley living in a Texas backwater nursing home teams up with a black man who thinks he’s John F. Kennedy to defeat a mummy that’s been feeding on [click for more]

Review: ANYTHING ELSE

September 19, 2003 Rich Drees

The advertising for the new Woody Allen film Anything Else have played up the film’s two leads, young actors Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci, while downplaying Allen’s involvement to the point of virtually not admitting [click for more]

Review: AMERICAN SPLENDOR

September 12, 2003 Rich Drees

“Write what you know.” It’s familiar advice that’s dished out high school composition courses everywhere. It’s something that Harvey Pekar has embraced, turning his life as a file clerk in Cleveland into the basis of [click for more]

Review: JOHNNY ENGLISH

July 19, 2003 Rich Drees

In these days of cross marketing, it is not unusual to see film characters appear in commercials for products that are inevitably placed in their features. But in an interesting reversal of that trend, Johnny [click for more]

Review: THE ANIMATION SHOW

July 18, 2003 Rich Drees

The end of the golden age of cinema due to the rise in the popularity of television brought about many changes in cinema, most notably to the field of animation. As distribution and presentation formats [click for more]