Why bring lunch from home when you can get a hot meal at the LUNCH WAGON (1981)?
Dir. Ernest Pintoff
Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 1/27/10, 11:59pm
I promise I will never compare another Weird Wednesday to Lord Love a Duck, the monumental WW to rule them all. It simply isn’t fair to the competition. That said, Lunch Wagon is obviously a let down from last week, but it is still a very strong [...]
LOS ABRAZOS ROTOS (2009) is a little too straight
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar
Regal Arbor, 1/17/10, 3:10pm
I was fairly excited for Almodóvar’s new picture. I consider him to be the most “European Art Cinema”-type auteur still working. His most recent film, Volver, was an alright film (and a beautiful love letter to Penélope Cruz’s finer qualities), and the one before that, La mala educación [...]
ROADGAMES (1981)
Dir. Richard Franklin
Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 12/9/09, 10:00pm
If I had to rename this film, I would title it Rear View Mirror. Roadgames, or Road Games as it was advertised as part of the Terror Tuesdays series, is a thriller about a truck driver who becomes obsessed with a series of discovered body parts scattered and [...]
TREMORS (1990)
Dir. Ron Underwood
Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 12/1/09, 8:45pm
Terror Tuesday this week highlighted a film from the distorted childhood of many people of my generation. The basic premise is simple: a secluded town is disrupted when four earth-mutant-wormy things start causing some trouble by eating people and trucks and house corners. If this premise sounds [...]
