I am embarrassed to confess that, after watching the 2007 Oscar-winning Irish musical Once, my optimism and giddiness towards the prospects of love were matched only by that of a Barbie-wielding ten-year-old girl. Not only does Once tell an achingly beautiful love story about a street musician and Czech immigrant, but its two lead actors, the musicians Glen Hansard and Markéta … [Read more...] about Trailer Trash: Damn You, Fickle Love!
Trailer Trash: Naughty Naughty
There aren’t many directors working today who maintain enough prestige and clout to be known only by a single name. Then again, there aren’t many directors working today who have the guts to make a film that depicts the image of a shrinking man climbing into his girlfriend’s vagina and have the ability to make this visual the furthest thing from being pornographic or obscene. … [Read more...] about Trailer Trash: Naughty Naughty
Trailer Trash: Being and Nothingness and Snowmen
I was perusing through iTunes’ newest batch of movie trailers last Tuesday when my eyeballs screeched to a halt upon one particular title recently excreted from the fetid bowels of some exceptionally bored screenwriter’s brain. I rubbed my eyes a few times, hoping that the title was simply the result of a lapse of temporary dyslexia brought upon by reading a chapter of Sartre’s … [Read more...] about Trailer Trash: Being and Nothingness and Snowmen
Trailer Trash: Harry Potter & the Curse of Success
The Hollywood Forever Cemetery may boast an occupancy list filled with silver screen legends, powerful oil tycoons, and two members of The Ramones, yet there is one demographic that the gilded graveyard is sorely lacking- the living dead. No, I’m not suggesting that they populate the cemetery with any of those fictional flesh-eaters of the George A. Romero variety. Instead, I’m … [Read more...] about Trailer Trash: Harry Potter & the Curse of Success