National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983)
There was a time before I worried about classism in John Hughes movies and how Chevy Chase became the kind of person Chevy Chase was doing a character schtick about and that was probably 1983 and every time I watch this movie, it reminds me of that simpler time to watch movies. I saw Vacation at […]
WATCH THE SERIES: The Purge Part 3
Somehow — and I don’t know legally how this has happened — there are several films that outright use the Purge as their plot. I understand how the parodies happen but there’s one movie that. just can’t figure out how no one was sued. Then again, according to The Hollywood Reporter, “Universal, Platinum Dunes Productions and […]
A CHRISTMAS STORY: A Christmas Story (1983)
According to LEIGH BROWN, CREATOR AND ENABLER The Lives and Love of an Arty Village Chick by Eugene B. Bergmann, “Leigh Brown, from the early 1960s through the late 1990s, was the steadfast, all-purpose, vital element in the life and art of the raconteur and wit, Jean Shepherd.” As early as 1972, she would tell […]
DISMEMBERCEMBER: The Children (2008)
Directed and written by Tom Shankland from a story by Paul Andrew Williams, The Children is a low budget British holiday horror movie that stunned me: it takes no prisoners, it goes places few movies are brave enough to defy cringe and convention. Casey (Hannah Tointon) wanted a holiday away from her mother (Eva Birthistle), stepfather […]
American Wedding (2003)
The only theatrical American Pie movie in which Nadia (Shannon Elizabeth), Vicky (Tara Reid), Oz (Chris Klein), Sherman (Chris Owen), Jessica (Natasha Lyonne) and Heather (Mena Suvari) don’t appear, American Wedding was to be the last film of a trilogy. But hey — there was more to come. Even with a reduced cast, this cost way more […]
American Pie 2 (2001)
The summer after their first year of college, Jim Levenstein (Jason Biggs), Kevin Myers (Thomas Ian Nicholas), Chris “Oz” Ostreicher (Chris Klein) and Paul Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas) decide to rent a beach house and get stuck with Steve Stiffler (Seann William Scott). Everyone’s lives are slightly moved ahead, as Jim is about to meet with […]
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