Email Author Gregory Weinkauf

2000 Stories by Gregory Weinkauf

• Double Features

  published December 28, 2000

  The cream of this year's crop are films carefully selected not only for their countless wonderful qualities, but because, as the list indicates,... More >>

• Tom Terrific

  published December 21, 2000

  During the summer of 1994, while most of the world was greeting Robert Zemeckis' Forrest Gump with dewy eyes and outstretched arms, this... More >>

• Sweet Dreams

  published December 21, 2000

  Here you will find the ingredients required to spin an audience into throes of fuzzy warm-heartedness--the hope, the compassion, the joie de... More >>

• Sexual Reeling

  published December 14, 2000

  Assessing the merits of Quills, the lusty new feature by director Philip Kaufman (Henry and June), it's tempting to seek... More >>

• Loathsome Lothario

  published November 23, 2000

  If the concept of dubious celebrity Ben Affleck romping in a water park with cinematic darling Gwyneth Paltrow and two adorable moppets does not... More >>

• Tears of a Clone

  published November 16, 2000

  Refreshingly, the biggest wonder about the new Arnold Schwarzenegger ride is not that human cloning has become a reality, nor that the America of... More >>

• Talking Turkey

  published November 16, 2000

  Given the stress and emotional turmoil associated with family holidays, in the cinema, as in life, it's very peculiar that anyone feels obliged to... More >>

• Wasted Space

  published November 9, 2000

  If you're planning to take a look at Antony Hoffman's Red Planet, it is highly advised that you squint. This way, instead of... More >>

• A Snooze Runs Through It

  published November 2, 2000

  Gopher. Explosives. Gopher... explosives. Gopher! Explosives! There. Now you know exactly what was running through this critic's mind... More >>

• Sweet and Lowdown

  published October 19, 2000

  To put it mildly, it is uncomfortable and embarrassing to have one's cynical ass whipped by a huge, hulking Hallmark card, and this is exactly the... More >>

• Good Intentions

  published October 19, 2000

  Oh, the plight of the common nebbish, aching to be adored, mugging for attention, and eternally desperate to bag a sexy babe. Sounds familiar, no?... More >>

• Life's a Bitch

  published October 12, 2000

  Slash a steer's throat or snip the beak off a bird and most people don't give anything remotely resembling a damn. But take, for instance, an... More >>

• Goys and Dolls

  published October 12, 2000

  So a Jew and a Christian walk into the economically challenged valleys of Wales... No, it's not a joke--not until the absurd, maudlin third... More >>

• Blades of Passion

  published October 5, 2000

  According to Patrice Leconte, women live to be vulnerable, men thrive when they are in command, and the two genders can only find happy fusion... More >>

• A Star Is Björk

  published October 5, 2000

  With global overpopulation neatly intertwining with the advent of the home video camera, we have been afforded, as a species, several... More >>

• Gender Bent

  published September 28, 2000

  It takes a special mindset to celebrate castration, and audiences confusing feminine empowerment with the crude hacking off of seemingly... More >>

• View to a Killer

  published September 14, 2000

  So many intense themes run rampant in Joe Charbanic's debut feature, The Watcher, that it's tricky to keep up. For instance, a young lady... More >>

• Zellweger in Love

  published September 7, 2000

  Humans and their stories, my oh my. Somehow, the familiar themes just keep coming around, again and again, ad infinitum. Of course, most of them... More >>

• Kings of Queens

  published September 7, 2000

  It's strange to encounter a movie like The Opportunists, the debut feature by writer/director Myles Connell, because, as it eschews pomp... More >>

• Sexy Dex

  published August 24, 2000

  Be cool, get chicks." While that's paraphrased and boiled down, it's nonetheless the essential creed of Dex (Donal Logue), the corpulent... More >>

• London Calling

  published August 10, 2000

  Before we get into it, a few of life's sorrowful inevitabilities: Friends will vanish; romantic love will deteriorate; family will freak; and,... More >>

• Private Defective

  published August 10, 2000

  Murphy and Pryor. Skywalker and Kenobi. Amos and Zeppelin. Regardless of the creative universe, the maverick apprentice tends to stride off into... More >>

• Bacon's bits

  published August 3, 2000

  There are many, many productive paths a bright, ambitious young fellow can pursue in America. He can, for instance, start a mediocre rock band and... More >>

• Five's easy pieces

  published August 3, 2000

  Honestly now, have you, of late, found yourself enthralled by pleasing stimuli? Please, no nauseating responses like "Aromatherapy shifts my... More >>

• I See Dull People

  published July 20, 2000

  Rather than asking if this senseless and expensive new film from wunderkind entertainer Robert Zemeckis is devoid of merit (it is), or "worth... More >>