I am utterly fascinated by Kevin Lima's career -- an eight-year association with Marc Kohler’s The Puppet Workshop, a summer job with Eve Brook’s Costume Shop where he helped create costumes for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus and extensive experience with a little place called Walt Disney Pictures. And I think that he just might be the Zac Efron of the Disney … [Read more...] about 20 Questions with Enchanted’s Kevin Lima
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Clerks II
I am, unabashedly, a trilogy geek. But unlike those who often choose between Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, my trilogy of obsession has always been the View Askew Jersey trilogy - Clerks, Mallrats and Chasing Amy. My great love for those Kevin Smith films and his words has already been documented on PopGurls, and thus it should come as no surprise that I went into the … [Read more...] about Clerks II
No, YOU Stick It
In the last decade, there have been few teen-targeted films that were truly brilliant. Kids these days (she said, sounding like somebody's grandfather) have not had the honor of growing up with a John Hughes, someone who so thoroughly got the things teenagers experience - the sloppy puppy love, the girl from the other side of the tracks, the basket case who can be pretty with a … [Read more...] about No, YOU Stick It
No-No-Notorious
The Notorious Bettie Page moves along like a really good PBS special sans droning narrator, all grainy black and white film interspersed with muddy Technicolor. With little fanfare, the film lays out the surface details of Bettie's life, from her childhood steeped in Christianity through the illustrious Pin-Up Queen of the Universe years, but this visual recitation of facts … [Read more...] about No-No-Notorious
Joss, Grant Us the Serenity
If I think back on all the movies I've seen in my lifetime, or even just recently, it is hard to imagine that I went in to any of them as conflicted as I was prior to the worldwide premiere of Serenity last week in Los Angeles. As the movie unfolded, I felt as if I were three different people watching the same movie, and when it ended none of those people could come to an … [Read more...] about Joss, Grant Us the Serenity