Email Author Gregory Weinkauf

2003 Stories by Gregory Weinkauf

• Upper Middle Earth

  published December 17, 2003

  You know how it's often the ones we love whose flaws are most apparent? Well, when it comes to The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the... More >>

• Kitty Litter

  published November 19, 2003

  If you're hankering for a movie about an awkward yet lovable "outsider" type who wanders into a pastel mock-up of Middle America and cajoles the... More >>

• Shakedown Cruise

  published November 12, 2003

  Russell Crowe to his agent: "More Oscar bait. Now." Agent, considering his cut of Crowe's $20 million payday: "Yes, sir." A possible scenario,... More >>

• Silly Humans, Matrix Is for Kids!

  published November 5, 2003

  A not terribly long time ago in an uninhabitable galaxy called Burbank, a generally astute movie studio founded by four Polish siblings alienated... More >>

• Love and Death

  published October 22, 2003

  Sometimes something so wonderful appears on the big screen that I want to leap up like a shameless nonprofessional and hug it. Such is the case... More >>

• Fixin' to Die

  published October 8, 2003

  "I really like the cold -- it makes me feel really alive." There are few more attractive (or more atypical) things a woman can say, and when... More >>

• Diaper Dreams

  published October 1, 2003

  You gotta love John Sayles. No, really -- you gotta, or else a mob of indie-minded cinéastes will club you into submission.... More >>

• Below the Law

  published September 10, 2003

  It seems like everybody's raving about Mexican cinema these days -- either as a merit badge of self-conscious hipness or because the stuff is... More >>

• Angst in Their Pants

  published August 27, 2003

  Most will deny it, but inside every grown man lurks a hypersensitive adolescent girl. Allow me to tell you all about mine and to share some of my... More >>

• Shane's Addiction

  published August 20, 2003

  Shane MacGowan drinks a lot of alcohol and sings about it. Although the iconic rocker once declared himself "the anti-Morrissey," this... More >>

• Shredheads

  published August 13, 2003

  Deck. Wheels. Attitude. This is the stuff of Grind, a new comedy about skateboarding and its effects on the human psyche. Neither young... More >>

• Kiss Me, Sons of God

  published August 6, 2003

  At the beginning of the third ugliest decade of the 20th century, a musical duo called They Might Be Giants put out an album called Flood.... More >>

• London Underground

  published July 23, 2003

  It's a great pleasure to behold a chunk of art that's both dank and fresh at the same time, and this appraisal perfectly fits the superb Dirty... More >>

• The Young Girl and the Sea

  published June 18, 2003

  Once in a while a film comes along that is as sound, smart, sweet, and significant as can be, and Whale Rider is such a film. Fault the... More >>

• Just Like a Woman

  published June 11, 2003

  What is it with women, anyway? They want to be safe walking the streets at night; they want to be able to trust strangers; they want the world to... More >>

• Violent Femmes

  published April 30, 2003

  At some fast-approaching point in pop culture evolution, we're due to hit Total Outsider Saturation, wherein everybody is an outsider and... More >>

• Girls With Balls

  published March 26, 2003

  It was only in 1967 that Great Britain struck from its jurisprudence the "common scold," essentially a crime of catty insolence for which the... More >>

• River of Dreams

  published February 26, 2003

  Emerging from Till Human Voices Wake Us, it was easy to overhear some male viewers striving adamantly to put the film's metaphysical themes... More >>

• French Kiss-Off

  published February 12, 2003

  Apart from "I Am Fascinating" and/or "My Parents Are Horrid," the reigning theme of film students' movies is "Lovers Are Bonkers." Thus, it comes... More >>

• Straining Day

  published January 8, 2003

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