You’d be surprised what you see in a movie that you haven’t seen again in twenty years. Has it been that long? I recently sat down to watch Ben Stiller’s directorial debut Reality Bites. The plot revolves around recent college graduates and their search for a life outside of school …
Pump Up The Volume (1990)
Cast: Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Annie Ross
Director: Allan Moyle
Baz Luhrman’s second film in his red curtain trilogy, by far his best, in my opinion (not according to Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB though), and one of the best film soundtracks ever created. Luhrman sought three different themes for each film, dance, language, and song. What he created in Romeo & Juliet was a hyper- …
I’m a huge Joss Whedon fan, and am quite aware of his dismay with the way his script was tampered with in this movie. So naturally, I’m slightly biased and have always been just lukewarm on this film, the slightly disappointing origin of the Buffy universe. Every Whedonite knows the story of Whedon’s struggles, how …
When Clueless begins, Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone) is shallow, self-centered, and vacuous. The most popular girl in her incredibly rich, Beverly Hills high school, Cher dishes out pseudo-spiritual guidance like Confucius raised exclusively on Cosmo, explaining her own philosophy in deliciously facile bon mots that she …