Email Author Gregory Weinkauf

2004 Stories by Gregory Weinkauf

• Sour Town

  published April 15, 2004

  If only Dogville were at least involving enough to be perplexing. Sigh. In simplest terms--which it definitely deserves--Lars von... More >>

• Heart of Gold

  published April 8, 2004

  Up front, it's "full disclosure" time. Let it be confessed here, publicly, that I have never been a religious Neil Young fan. Always liked him OK,... More >>

• Blarney Rubble

  published April 1, 2004

  As a proud sponsor of the Colin Farrell media blitz, Intermission opens on the lad's salable mug, basically sporting the same... More >>

• Punk Monk

  published March 11, 2004

  It's a bit unorthodox to ladle superlatives all over a film in the opening paragraph, but The Reckoning deserves them. Moving,... More >>

• Rites of Spring

  published March 4, 2004

  It is so very nice when a movie completely outstrips the expectations conjured by its trailer, as is the case with The Dreamers. At... More >>

• Freaky Lindsay

  published February 19, 2004

  So this grown man walks into another teen girl movie. He is not stunned to learn that it concerns clothes, fun, clothes, peer pressure and... More >>

• Dissed in Translation

  published February 5, 2004

  This may seem incredible, but there's a group of people in the world called "the Japanese," and apparently some of them like to travel to other... More >>

• Oh-la-la!

  published January 29, 2004

  Behold a tale of true love (between a boy and a bicycle), of tireless courage (from a bitty grandmother with a club foot) and of a very shocking... More >>

• Dude, Where's My Noir?

  published January 22, 2004

  There is a recent generation of American men who came of age too late for free love and wanton property-grabbing, and too early for post-grunge... More >>

• American Girl

  published January 8, 2004

  Not a lot of people know this, but our word "actress" is derived from the Greek phrase strumpetos luckyos, meaning "prostitute who somehow... More >>