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BELUSHI

November 22, 2020 By Leave a Comment

BELUSHI

Click here for the flashback interview with RJ Cutler for THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE. Early on in R.J. Cutler’s documentary, BELUSHI, Harold Ramis talks about John Belushi’s enormous appetites for everything. It would be his downfall, the appetite for drugs, that is, but Cutler smartly focuses on the other appetites, the enormous ambition, and also the… Read More »

Tagged With: drugs, John Belushi, Saturday Night Live, The Blue Brothers

BAYWATCH

May 28, 2017 By Leave a Comment

BAYWATCH

One comes away from BAYWATCH wondering many things, none of them good, one of them why Spongebob Squarepants had to be involved. Based on the television phenomenon that swept the world a few decades back, this cinematic leap is neither faithful to the original, nor is it a loving spoof of same. It fails to… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a television show, bay, dreck, drugs, genitalia jokes, lifeguard, ocean, privatization

IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE (Kraftidioten)

September 2, 2016 By Leave a Comment

IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE (Kraftidioten)

IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE is a bracingly original foray into very black humor. Set in the arctic-lite of rural Norway, it is a tale of relentless pursuit, clueless hubris, and the eccentricities that long winters provoke in the population. Writer Kim Fupz Aakeson and director Hans Petter Moland serve up this arch film about fathers and sons… Read More »

Tagged With: crime, drug dealer, drugs, father-son, murder, Norway, organized crime, overdose, revenge, snow plow

EMPIRE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

EMPIRE

EMPIRE is a nitty, gritty look at life on the mean streets of the wrong part of New York. Its message, crime doesn’’t pay, isn’’t a new one, but any film that proffers a moral compass is one worth paying attention to. Also worth paying attention to is co-producer John Leguizamo’’s performance as Victor Rosa,… Read More »

Tagged With: class boundaries, crime, drama, drugs, drugs crime urban wall street, EMPIRE, ethics, John Leguizamo, melting pot, narrative, South Bronx, street crime, thriller, urban, Wall Street

NARC

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

NARC

NARC begins intensely with a narc’s-eye view of a bust gone bad. Everything happens too quickly and there is no time to focus on any one event, from the killing of a bystander to the killing of the perp as he attempts to take a toddler hostage, to the shooting of the toddler’s pregnant mother.… Read More »

Tagged With: action, cops, drugs, gangs, Jason Patric, Joe Carnahan, undercover

BASIC

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

The first words we hear Tom Hardy say in BASIC is in a conversation this ex-Army and currently DEA agent in Panama is having with a colleague, the gist of which is that if he doesn’t have the trust of those around him, he can’t function. Those are words that will figure greatly in the… Read More »

Tagged With: Army Ranger, drugs, James McTiernan, John Travolta, jungle, military, Panama

BRICK

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

There is in seeing Rian Johnson’s neo-noir, BRICK, the sense that this is not just a startlingly original, wholly engrossing, and brilliantly plotted piece of work. There is the sense that it is nothing less than a flawless masterpiece made all the more remarkable for being Johnson’s maiden cinematic effort. The idioms of the noir… Read More »

Tagged With: BRICK, cinema, drugs, film, first-time directors, high school, mystery, narrative, patois, Rian Johnson, taking falls

John Leguizamo’s EMPIRE

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

John Leguizamo’s EMPIRE

Fearless is a good word to describe John Leguizamo. Think of the roles he’s chosen over the years, Toulouse-Lautrec in Baz Lurhman’s MOULIN ROUGE, a tortured loser in Spike Lee’s SUMMER OF SAM, a sassy transvestite in TO WONG FOO and, especially, the one-man shows that he writes as well as performs where he opens himself… Read More »

Tagged With: class boundaries, crime, drama, drugs, drugs crime urban wall street, EMPIRE, ethics, John Leguizamo, melting pot, narrative, one-man show, South Bronx, street crime, thriller, uban, Wall Street

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and BRICK

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and BRICK

BRICK cements Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s transition from kid comedy star to serious adult actor, though, for those with long memories, he was doing some excellent work as his generation’s designated “creepy kid” before signing up for the absurdist shenanigans of “Third Rock from the Sun.” When I spoke with Gordon-Levitt on February 10, 2005, the conversation turned… Read More »

Tagged With: BRICK, child star, cinema, drugs, film, first-time directors, French Stewart, high school, mystery, narrative, patois, Rian Johnson, taking chances, taking falls

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