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Dorkula

Blade confronts the ultimate vampire, and geeks everywhere rejoice

By Gregory Weinkauf
Dec 9, 2004

They walk among us. They resemble people, approximate our words and actions, present themselves more or less as human. And yet they are more--a different species, with their own dark legends, their own clandestine meeting places. They are dorks, and they are going to be pretty OK with Blade: Trinity...
Boy Meets Whirl

A lost lad longs for life in I Am David

By Gregory Weinkauf
Dec 2, 2004

Movies pushing the indomitableness of human nature tend to make me puke, mainly because they're often created with a palpable self-congratulatory air by film-biz insiders whose real-life concept of "suffering" extends to being brought an incorrectly prepared frappuccino. This emetic response is doubled when the featured indomitable human happens to...
Call Him Al

An epic story turns human--and fallible-- in Oliver Stone's Alexander

By Gregory Weinkauf
Nov 25, 2004

If you've ever gone line-dancing with a gaggle of amputees on crank and hallucinogens, you know something of the feeling engendered by viewing Alexander. This broad, bold and ambitious film by Oliver Stone presents itself as a fairly straightforward endeavor, but its rhythms quickly go strange while its participants hobble...
Peter Panache

J.M. Barrie gets a Hollywood makeover in Finding Neverland

By Gregory Weinkauf
Nov 18, 2004

Oh, that Johnny Depp. Played in some dime-a-dozen rock bands, did some average television, made a few cutesy little movies. Whatever. Yeah, he messes with his looks in a fun way sometimes, but otherwise he merely rides that nicotine-sunken-cheeks thing all the way to the bank. The guy's popular, but...
Gender Pretender

Billy Crudup goes girly in the witty Shakespearean world of Stage Beauty

By Gregory Weinkauf
Oct 21, 2004

Let's just get the term out of the way up front. The term is "fag hag"--and a thousand pardons, sensitive readers, but there is no PC equivalent. This new film, Stage Beauty, is an absolute fag-hag fiesta. Beneath its historical leanings and classic veneer, it's utterly gaga for girls who...

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