This is a list of archived entries published in December 1999.
For some reason, I never really got into James Bond. I knew he
existed, and I certainly thought secret agents were pretty cool and all, but I
just never saw any of the films, or if I did, I never got into them. I preferred
science fiction and fantasy as a kid, and pretty much stuck to those [...]
I admit I had some bias coming in to Sleepy Hollow - I
was psyched for it. Totally psyched. I already had all four of the action
figures, including the deluxe Headless Horseman that included his horse. I had
the poster and the soundtrack. But what of it? Aren’t we movie reviewers
supposed to love movies? And if so, [...]
For some reason, I was pretty psyched to see Dogma. I’d
previously seen two other films by Kevin Smith - Clerks and Chasing
Amy - both of which I’d liked, but neither of which became a particular
favorite of mine.
But for some reason, Dogma looked really promising. The
premise - two renegade angels find a loophole to get back [...]
I didn’t plan to see Anywhere But Here. Natalie Portman
as a misunderstood teenager and Susan Sarandon as her free-spirit mother?
<<warning: uncharacteristically sexist comments to follow>> Hold on
girls, just let me grab my curling iron and waxing compound and we’ll psyche
ourselves up for this film!
Seriously though, there we were - stuck in the dirty, dirty town
of [...]