Email Author Gregory Weinkauf

2000 Stories by Gregory Weinkauf

• Imperfect 10s

  published December 27, 2000

  Maybe it wasn't such a bad year for filmgoing after all, if only because it's far harder to assemble a Top 10 list this year than it was last... More >>

• Island Beauty

  published December 20, 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 Are Made of This

  published December 20, 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 >>

• Animal Husbandry

  published November 29, 2000

  Every now and then, a movie comes along that makes you feel as though you've fallen face-first into a stale catbox filled with grouchy baby asps.... More >>

• A Snooze Runs Through It

  published November 1, 2000

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

• Best In Show

  published October 11, 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 >>

• Dancer in the Dark

  published October 4, 2000

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

• Solomon and Gaenor

  published October 4, 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... More >>

• Girlfight

  published September 27, 2000

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

• Girl on the Bridge

  published September 20, 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 once... More >>

• Nurse Betty

  published September 6, 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... More >>

• The Opportunists

  published September 6, 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 >>

• The Tao of Steve

  published August 30, 2000

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

• Love's Labour's Lost

  published August 23, 2000

  Kenneth Branagh's latest adaptation of Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, is not swooningly wonderful; rather, it is simply quite nice.... More >>

• Wonderland

  published August 16, 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 >>

• The Five Senses

  published August 9, 2000

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

• Hollow Man

  published August 2, 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 >>

• Blood Simple

  published July 26, 2000

  So who are these celebrated Coen brothers anyway, and what's their point? These days, it's pretty easy to switch over to critical autopilot, to... More >>

• Trixie

  published July 26, 2000

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

• What Lies Beneath

  published July 19, 2000

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

• Judy Berlin

  published July 5, 2000

  What's going on here? A tender, patient shot of a school custodian sweeping the floor? Frequent cutaways to branches teeming with singing birds,... More >>

• Chicken Run

  published June 21, 2000

  About nine years ago, in a humble Redondo Beach nightclub, urbane British folk singer Billy Bragg reappraised 20th-century politics -- as is often... More >>

• 8 1/2 Women

  published June 7, 2000

  So, when was the last time you shared a woman with your dad? No, not your mom -- don't be gross. You know, just some woman whom you and... More >>

• Passion of Mind

  published May 31, 2000

  "Industrial-strength boredom" is a vicious term to unload on anybody -- friend, foe or former actress. Considering the lingering discomfort it... More >>

• The Virgin Suicides

  published May 3, 2000

  Everybody's a princess at one point or another. Rich girls work it from birth to final crackup. Bourgeois girls play the precious 'n'... More >>