 | | 15. Chasing Amy | | | Starring: Ben Affleck Jason Lee Director: Kevin Smith | | Format: DVD Release Date: 12/26/2009 | User Rating: 5 |  | Chasing Amy - DVD Review By: Bradley Null - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 11/6/2009 9:42 PM | |
The intro sequence of Chasing Amy, comic book frames of oddly familiar characters, informs us immediately that we are entering the world of Kevin Smith. That world is one over-populated with comic book fanatics, philosophical drug dealers, and ambitionless twenty-somethings. To Smith, the film's director, that world is New Jersey. Like characters found in other recent Gen X movies, Smith's heroes are unjustifiably hip. In Chasing Amy, there are two groups of characters, Jersey boys afraid of the city, and fixtures of the NYC underground. But regardless of background, every character in Chasing Amy is poised with a witty remark or comical/philosophical riff on love or life. read the full review | |
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 | | 18. M Butterfly | | | Starring: Jeremy Irons John Lone Director: David Cronenberg | | Format: DVD Release Date: 5/26/2009 | | M. Butterfly - DVD Review By: Paul Brenner - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 5/17/2009 8:40 PM | |
In Mel Brooks' The Producers, the characters played by Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel pay a visit to the Park Avenue home of eccentric theatrical director Roger De Bris, who greets them in a flowing peignoir. "Max," Wilder querulously points out to Mostel, "He's wearing a dress." "No kidding?" Mostel remarks dryly. Mostel may just as well be the audience surrogate for M. Butterfly, particularly for an audience with fond memories of David Henry Hwang's operatic romance and theatrical tragedy in its stage incarnation. David Cronenberg's film adaptation (with a script by Hwang) is a failure for many of the reasons that the stage production was a success, but the film is additionally hampered by Cronenberg's '90s lurch towards conventionality. read the full review | |
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 | | 36. Boy Crush | | | | Format: DVD Release Date: 12/4/2007 |
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 | | 41. Showgirls (VIP Edition) | | | Starring: Gina Gershon Elizabeth Berkley Director: Paul Verhoeven | | Format: DVD Release Date: 7/27/2004 | | Showgirls - DVD Review By: Christopher Null - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 7/6/2007 4:15 PM | |
Showgirls is the capper in writer Joe Eszterhas' storied career. First came Flashdance. Then he shocked us with Basic Instinct. Then he writes Showgirls, an ultra-explicit NC-17 drama about a Las Vegas showgirl who goes from nobody to "Goddess" by playing the Power Game better than everyone else.
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