Dirty Work
Norm Macdonald was given the hook from “Saturday Night Live” because he wasn’t funny. After this atrocity, devoid of mirth or wit, he should be banned from earth. Chris Farley, who puts in an all-too-familiar cameo as a fat psychotic boozer, has already been shuttled off this mortal coil. The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh…
Six Days, Seven Nights
Increasingly in Hollywood, a “summer movie” equals frivolous escapism: sit back, relax in the air conditioning, shut off your brain and enjoy a vicarious adventure. Six Days, Seven Nights (whose very title suggests a vacation) wants nothing more than to be that escape. In wintry New York City, Frank Martin (David Schwimmer) shows his girlfriend…
Sympathy for the upright
Shane MacGowan has seen the devil in his mirror and lives to tell about it.
Hav Plenty
Writer-director-editor Christopher Scott Cherot’s debut film, Hav Plenty, is fueled by that most elusive substance: charm. Cherot stars as Lee Plenty, a struggling, comically self-deprecating writer who, during a most memorable New Year’s weekend, has every woman in his vicinity throw herself at him. But Hav Plenty isn’t quite your standard Woody Allenish fantasy of…
Kurt and Courtney
It’s been four years since the fast, grimy saga of Nirvana ended with the apparent suicide of singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain. And while Cobain rests in peace, the world has watched the raging bull popularly known to all as Courtney Love rise from rock groupie to movie star. In Kurt and Courtney, acclaimed British documentarian Nick…
