Email Author Gregory Weinkauf

2004 Stories by Gregory Weinkauf

• Dorkula

  published December 8, 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... More >>

• Diva Down

  published November 24, 2004

  "I know why I hate integrity," moans Jeremy Irons late in Callas Forever. "It's great for the person who has it; it's pure hell for those... More >>

• Call Him Al

  published November 24, 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... More >>

• Peter Panache

  published November 17, 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... More >>

• Attack of the Clones

  published October 20, 2004

  The Grudge bears the imprimatur of Sam Raimi, but alas, neither his sense of fun nor his smarts. The wunderkind director behind the... More >>

• Gender Pretender

  published October 13, 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... More >>

• Picture Imperfect

  published October 13, 2004

  Outside Tinseltown, not everyone may be aware of the Hollywood Forever cemetery, which specializes in memorializing lives via a process the... More >>

• The Importance of Being Ernesto

  published September 29, 2004

  Revolutionary idolatry is an odd business. Just ask unruly pop singer Stew, of the unruly pop group the Negro Problem. On his Naked Dutch... More >>

• Fight the Power

  published September 22, 2004

  From way over here in the West, it's kind of difficult to discern what the Siamese (since 1939, the Thai) people did to piss off their Burmese... More >>

• Rebel, Rebel

  published September 22, 2004

  It's the 10th anniversary of John Duigan's smart, sensual, and superb movie Sirens, and I'm reflecting on the comment of a female friend... More >>

• Days of Future Passed

  published September 15, 2004

  Fortune smiles on groovy egregiousness. In the case of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, the filmmaker's investment in his weird... More >>

• Vile With a Smile

  published September 8, 2004

  Essayist. Playwright. Radio personality. Librettist. Actor. Novelist. Now, with Bright Young Things, the inimitable British wit Stephen Fry... More >>

• The Phantom Menace

  published September 8, 2004

  You're not very likely to hear this critic utter the phrases "American remake" and "good idea" in the same breath. Godzilla, anyone? La... More >>

• Gallo's Pole

  published September 1, 2004

  Rare is the film that caters to fans of rabbits, motorcycles, Gordon Lightfoot, and fellatio, but now, thanks entirely to Vincent Gallo, we've got... More >>

• The Passion of the Goy

  published September 1, 2004

  Part soap opera, part history lesson, part vital, and a little tedious, veteran director Margarethe von Trotta's Rosenstrasse illustrates... More >>

• Jet Propelled

  published August 25, 2004

  There's a new movie called Hero. Don't confuse it with that dusty Dustin Hoffman vehicle, nor with the epic Bollywood musical/espionage... More >>

• Screenplay Zero

  published August 25, 2004

  You know how fear is scary? Well, director E. Elias Merhige is into that, especially in his new serial-killer thriller Suspect Zero.... More >>

• Live Baby Live

  published August 25, 2004

  Some of the people who helped bring you dank, morose amusements such as The Crow, Dark City, and The Matrix have a new movie... More >>

• Future Shock

  published August 11, 2004

  The future is almost here. At least, it is according to screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce (Pandaemonium) and director Michael Winterbottom... More >>

• Deck Heads

  published August 11, 2004

  Most boys seem to tumble down the assembly line with their main switch factory-preset to Aggression. Toys are for throwing, Army men are for... More >>

• His Guy Friday

  published July 28, 2004

  There is a phrase bandied about that other film industry -- "gay for pay" -- that means exactly what it says. The queer thing is, this... More >>

• Banzai Beat

  published July 21, 2004

  Say hello to a pop cinema masterpiece. This new Japanese import opens with a massive thud not unlike Godzilla's footfall, and its cinematic... More >>

• Meow Mixed

  published July 21, 2004

  Without risking much critical credibility, it can be said that Catwoman succeeds on its own feline terms. Much like a cat, the movie is a... More >>

• Hello, Oblivion

  published July 14, 2004

  Consider a world in which morality and legality have been replaced by frontier-style justice and freakish despotism. In which dwindling resources... More >>

• King Artless

  published July 7, 2004

  Behold what is, in theory, the thinking person's ideal summer blockbuster. King Arthur features some of the planet's most beautiful people,... More >>