Articles Written by Zan
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) Movie Review
True story: a week or so ago I am walking through my apartment complex when the obligatory early stage Alzheimer’s victim/tenant, a nice elderly woman who is constantly asking for someone named Richard, stops me and says to me, “You know, you look just like that actor.” Bewildered, but flattered because of my extreme vanity, [...]
November 18th, 2006 | Zan | 0 Comments | Read MoreThank You for Smoking (2005) Movie Review
Personally, I am an enthusiast of satirical films which don’t necessarily condemn the subject of the satire. Of course, it’s all up to the subjective perceptions of the viewer, but a film like “Thank You for Smoking”, with its superficially audible overtones of “everyone in the tobacco industry is a soulless, money grubbing murderer”, really [...]
November 7th, 2006 | Zan | 1 Comment | Read MoreThe Departed (2006) Movie Review
“The departed…what was their name?” asks Sergeant Collin Sullivan (Matt Damon) about a gruesome photo of a recently deceased mobster. That’s what “The Departed”, Martin Scorsese’s interminable bloodbath of a film, is all about: dead people. Or, more specifically, people who are living their lives alongside caustic men with guns who will soon be dead [...]
October 17th, 2006 | Zan | 0 Comments | Read MoreBukowski: Born Into This (2003) Movie Review
Unlike documentaries on musicians and even visual artists, docs focused on major literary figures are far and few in between. Of course, there are the obligatory A&E spotlights on Mark Twain and Shakespeare, but when I am scouring my online movie provider of choice and can’t find anything on Dostoevsky, I start to wonder. Is [...]
October 2nd, 2006 | Zan | 0 Comments | Read MoreLoveCracked: The Movie (2006) Movie Review
Sometimes, ideas are birthed that are sound, insightful, and even mature, but when implemented in the physical world they deflate like a sulky blow-up doll. Asking your girlfriend to have a threesome, for instance. Homer Simpson once put Communism into this category; I will add to it, “LoveCracked! The Movie”.
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Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (2005) Movie Review
It really pays to be born a woman with a genotype predestined for phenotypic cuteness; that is, if you are misfortunate enough to have to be born at all. What can’t they get away with saying? Who is going to persecute them? Men? An attractive woman could call almost any man by his racial slur-name [...]
August 25th, 2006 | Zan | 0 Comments | Read MoreFootsteps (2006) Movie Review
I am not certain about the cultural prevalence of snuff films in countries outside the U.S. , but I am rather certain that, even in this debauched land, snuff remains a seedy underground taboo which rarely, if ever, pokes its horrific organs through a hernia in the mainstream. Sure, [...]
August 1st, 2006 | Zan | 0 Comments | Read MoreThe Da Vinci Code (2006) Movie Review
If you look at the sheer numbers of it, you might think to yourself, “Why would anyone need to write a review about a movie which is about a book which sold over 40 million copies?” Yea, I’m reviewing the film version of Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code”, but we’ll get to that; the [...]
July 16th, 2006 | Zan | 0 Comments | Read MoreLeonard Cohen: I’m Your Man (2005) Movie Review
Nothing gets me more hype than finding out that a musician I am a fan of is really as fucking weird as I imagined them to be. For instance, Prince. Now, if you’re a rabid Prince enthusiast like myself, you will have watched posted interviews and all of his videos on launch.com at every party [...]
July 2nd, 2006 | Zan | 0 Comments | Read MoreBrothers of the Head (2005) Movie Review
In no way do I wish to encourage film makers, or film goers, to indulge in any more “mockumentaries”. “Spinal Tap” is an inanely brilliant comedy, but beyond that, all the fake interviews where people act serious but say stupid shit and the humor is dryer than the deserts of the Sudan is just too [...]
June 22nd, 2006 | Zan | 1 Comment | Read More
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