Email Author Gregory Weinkauf

2001 Stories by Gregory Weinkauf

• Force of Hobbit

  published December 20, 2001

  Since the horrors of the dominant Hollywood culture -- destruction, devastation, dumb-assness -- do not appear to be receding of their own accord,... More >>

• Eleven Doesn't Add Up

  published December 6, 2001

  The lights go down, and the puzzlement begins. Ensemble cast of superstars? Check. Loose remake of amusing curiosity? Check. Built-in, pre-fab... More >>

• Do the Wrong Thing

  published December 6, 2001

  The film Tape, a film by Richard Linklater, isn't. It's high time for some cinematic clarification: If a project is shot on... More >>

• Magical Mystery Tour de Force

  published November 15, 2001

  If you believe in magic, you'll love Harry Potter and the Sorcerer¹s Stone. And if you don't, you will, and you will. True, the... More >>

• Wide Awake in America

  published October 25, 2001

  If you're a college freshman, don't read this. Just grab your newfound peers and go see Richard Linklater's new movie, Waking Life,... More >>

• Blood Brothers

  published October 18, 2001

  It's all here: madness, mayhem and murder, in no short supply. The Hughes brothers, Albert and Allen, have always had a knack for horror, as... More >>

• Have at You!

  published September 13, 2001

  After the next apocalypse, hundreds of thousands of years from the moment we clever humans smugly call "now," the great philosopher-scientists... More >>

• The Bitch of Kitsch

  published August 16, 2001

  Well, my goodness, look at you! You are so alternative, so fringe, so punk! So artsy and alienated! So utterly aimless and oozing with angst! Tell... More >>

• Churl Power

  published July 19, 2001

  Festering somewhere between an After School Special and kiddie porn lies this frank but heinously melodramatic open wound from veteran Canadian... More >>

• Mountain Do

  published June 7, 2001

  Those expecting Himalaya to focus upon the beloved traveling carnival ride known for its liberal use of Def Leppard ("Do you wanna... More >>

• The Lost Boys

  published June 7, 2001

  The values that you grew up with are that people come before things," offers the mother of one the protagonists of Startup.com, "and... More >>

• Sheer Gaul!

  published May 31, 2001

  Remember glee? Perhaps not, given our penchant in recent times to chuck giddy hearts aside in favor of being stupid, obnoxious and mean.... More >>

• A Hard Day's Knight

  published May 10, 2001

  Let us first in olden verse this critic's cynical curse disperse: The greet unwashede consummethe crappe, Fro Jerrye Springgere to ganggsta... More >>

• Petty Woman

  published May 3, 2001

  Presently sitting in a very peaceful meditational facility. First time here. The location (which shall remain unnamed so as to maintain... More >>

• Termagant of Endearment

  published April 26, 2001

  Visualize a pretty young woman and a handsome young man heading for the bedroom. She has just suggested that she wants to show him what she... More >>

• Spies Unlike Us

  published April 19, 2001

  Talk about an unholy union of souls! The latest project from director John Boorman (Deliverance, The General) seeks to be many things --... More >>

• Northern Exposure

  published April 19, 2001

  There's a majesty to Michael Winterbottom's new film, a majesty and a terrible, icy chill. There's also a fair bit of invention, as the director... More >>

• Girl Afraid

  published April 12, 2001

  Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you," said Mae West, and, while the sentiment rings true, it does little to explain the mystery of why Helen... More >>

• A Kinder, Gentler Dope Fiend

  published April 5, 2001

  Hello, what's this? Why, could it be another cautionary tale from Hollywood about recreational drugs being -- alert the media! -- not... More >>

• Gunning for Love

  published March 1, 2001

  Leave it to Hollywood to sell us the insipid romance of a thoroughly irritating white couple as the solution to an archaic Latin American mystery.... More >>

• Saccharin & MSG

  published February 1, 2001

  At last you can take a deep breath and relax, consumers of American cinema, for our trilogy of virtually unrelated cheerleader movies is now... More >>

• Vein Glory

  published January 25, 2001

  The doomed are often a remarkably energetic and productive lot, especially when it comes to creating portraits of their personal horrors. Themes... More >>

• London Broil

  published January 18, 2001

  There's definitely something weird going on in the British pop scene. Years after tasteful Yanks allowed classic works such as Saturday Night... More >>