Movies

Blue Velvet (1986)

Credits slowly emerge from undulating blue velvet as Angelo Badalamenti’s arousing score fills the soundtrack. Dissolve to clear, blue skies, clean white picket fences, budding red roses, and yellow tulips. A man riding on a passing fire truck waves. A uniformed crossing guard holds a stop sign allowing children to safely cross the street. We […]

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Boat Trip (2003)

Directors, screenwriters, and everyone else involved in making a movie have a singular task make an audience believe in the world onscreen. I’ll forgive a lot in a movie, if the characters and their conflicts hold my attention. Boat Trip never makes the effort to establish anything original. The filmmakers are selling you a used

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Say Anything 1989

Looking back at how some familiar and famous cinematic figures first made lasting impressions on audiences is an enjoyable though sometimes embarrassing experience. John Cusack continues to endure, in his younger days often reliably called upon for edgy dramas that had their finger on the pulse of popular taste. In its day, Grosse Point Blank

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