OUT OF THE LOOP
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![]() Year Released: 1999 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 86 minutes |
I was ecstatic for the first forty minutes of this music documentary…

Posted on July 23, 2000 by Andrew Burchiel
SUCKER
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![]() Year Released: 1997 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
A wannabe punk band consisting of three vampires, their necrophilious henchman/manager, and hordes of groupies. Sounds like an excuse for soft porn to me…

Posted on July 23, 2000 by Andrew Burchiel
NEXT TIME
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![]() Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 96 minutes |
A 19 year-old white kid moves to LA and meets a 39 year-old black woman in a laundromat where they develop a friendship just before the LA riots of 1992. Dubious…

Posted on July 23, 2000 by Andrew Burchiel
HALLELUJAH
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![]() Year Released: 1997 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
If Henry Rollins had an evil twin brother with an obsession for shockingly explicit self-expression he might look something like Ron Athey…

Posted on July 23, 2000 by Andrew Burchiel
LICKING STICK
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![]() Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 5 minutes |
The finale will make you keel over with laughter and forget any violent thoughts you previously had for the director…

Posted on June 25, 2000 by Andrew Burchiel
THIS WAY UP
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![]() Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 15 minutes |
An obsessive-compulsive coming to grips with his traumatized childhood via flashbacks?

Posted on June 20, 2000 by Andrew Burchiel
FIVE O’ CLOCK SHADOW
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![]() Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 20 minutes |
An eerie mysteriousness surrounds an unidentified man who stands in front of his dimly lit bathroom mirror…

Posted on June 20, 2000 by Andrew Burchiel
INSIPIDLY SO
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![]() Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 0 minutes |
Two inane girls obsessed with guys and nothing else sounds insipid enough…

Posted on June 20, 2000 by Andrew Burchiel
GIGANTICA AND THE PLANET OF THE SHE MONSTERS
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![]() Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 0 minutes |
I’m certain both the filmmaker and I are dumber because Gigantica exists…

Posted on June 20, 2000 by Andrew Burchiel
SPEED OF MIND
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![]() Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
It feels like the unloved child spawned when Gummo and Slacker had one too many beers at a trailer park theme party based around abstract reality…

Posted on June 20, 2000 by Andrew Burchiel
GROOVE
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![]() Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 86 minutes |
Touting itself as the prevailing film about the electronic music and rave scenes, “Groove” has certainly piqued the interests of club kids…

Posted on June 18, 2000 by Andrew Burchiel
CREEPS LIKE ME
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![]() Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 0 minutes |
I dug this film, if not merely out of some pathological identification with its title…

Posted on June 15, 2000 by Andrew Burchiel
A CLOWN IN BABYLON
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![]() Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
Be forewarned if you happen to maintain some childhood phobia of clowns…

Posted on June 15, 2000 by Andrew Burchiel
MR. VINCENT
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![]() Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
Picture a composite of The Fonz and George Michæl desperately trying to affect inklings of Matt Dillon in an overdone version of Rumble Fish…

Posted on June 15, 2000 by Andrew Burchiel






