Entries from April 2008

April 28, 2008

What Alice Found

I’m going to go ahead and post a short paper I wrote for class last week because I hate working on projects and having only one person read them. I really like attention.

Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a story that has been told countless times in many ways. Originally written for one of [...]

April 28, 2008

After the Wedding

So often watching movies becomes a trial by association. We watch the final girl in a slasher film run upstairs instead of out the door and experience both terror and frustration over her bad decision. We watch a recovering alcoholic dive back into his disease and feel helpless. We watch Tony Soprano kick the shit [...]

April 28, 2008

Forbidden Zone

If Dark Star is a movie for pot smokers, than Forbidden Zone is perfect for crack heads. And it probably makes a lot more sense to them than it does to me. Chalk full of everything I love in a film: music, dance, midgets, and boobies. (Honestly, there may be too many boobies! And that’s a [...]

April 2, 2008

i’m remembering, i’m remembering!

dear jesus,
i know i haven’t written directly to you lately, but you understand that i’m writing these movie reviews (i’m using the term movie review very loosely; actually i’m using it as a joke) to you. unless you dont exist. then, i guess, i’m writing to no one, no-thing, nothing. i already forgot [...]