It makes me a little sad that it’s now been well over two years since the last time I had cause to offer a Bad Movie Night post. This used to be one of our proudest household traditions. Well, wait. … Continue reading From the Archive: Ghost Rider and The Wicker Man
And so we come to the end of the publication year for Spectrum Culture, which meant a huge batch of “best of” evaluations of the pop culture from the preceding twelve months (well, okay, eleven-and-a-half). I had my couple cents in every last one of them, but I also had one more full-length review to put out there. I was cautiously hopeful about grabbing the new film from Neil LaBute. Though it’s been ages since I’ve liked one of his films, I used to like them, a couple quite a bit. And this new effort seemed like a back-to-basics outing, … Continue reading Spectrum Check
#34 — In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute, 1997) In the Company of Men unquestionably depicts vile, misogynistic behavior, but does the film itself traffic in the same abject hatefulness? That’s the question that dogged Neil LaBute’s feature directorial debut when it was released. The film follows a pair of corporate drones on an extended business trip to a branch office. In order to chip away at their boredom, and to exact some sort of cosmic retribution against women who they feel have wronged them in the past, they agree to romance and then dump a pretty deaf secretary … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 90s — Number Thirty-Four
Coffee for Two 