Hi, welcome to Turd Island Cinema. If you read my page about me, you know I'm a film student of sorts and not a very good one at that. Apparently I like a lot of crap. I hate "The Piano" and "The English Patient". And my film teacher told me I didn't understand "The Age of Innocence". More on him later.
Comedy
Welcome to the Dollhouse
A Christmas Story
Romance
Harold and Maude - The greatest love story of all time. My grandpa introduced me to this movie which he finds hilarious (and rightly so).
Casablanca
Classics
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Unfortunately there is nothing good on the internet on this beautiful movie about a little girl growing up in the Brooklyn slums.
Drama
Swing Kids
Dangerous Liasons
Heavenly Creatures - my favorite movie.
Horror
The Haunting
80's Teenage Movies
Take the Sixteen Candles or Pretty in Pink quizzes.
Fantasy
Labyrinth - I've seen this much beloved movie I don't know how many times in my life. It's got lovable Muppets, beautiful sets, a great soundtrack, an incredibly imaginative plot, a strong-willed and intelligent young girl as a protaganist (something you hardly ever see in movies), and an unbelievably sexy antagonist played by David Bowie. Labyrinth is a very sweet and funny movie that also has quite a lot of depth to it, some of which I'd never really latched onto before I visited these people's websites who've really given a lot of thought to the movie.
Within a Land Serene - a lovely general Labyrinth page.
Jareth - Where I would have just gushed about how hot he looks in those tight pants, this wonderful girl has taken the initiative to analyse every aspect and nuance of what makes up David Bowie's character Jareth, The Goblin King. I found this page very exciting and inspiring and I love the way it begins.
Directors Whose Every Movie I Adore (except for Batman. ack!)
Tim Burton
John Waters - The Unofficial John Waters Page
Two Jealous Perverts
MOVIE REVIEWS
Party Girl
**
Kinda silly movie starring Parker Posey as a chick who has her own apartment in NYC and no means of supporting herself and all she does is throw parties and go to parties and go around in these horrible fashion victim get-ups and have lots of trendy friends. The plot is: she is being evicted and needs a job and has to convince her godmother that she's capable of being a decent librarian. Along the way there is romance with a cute Lebanese boy. It's hard for me to relate...with me it'd be more like I was a librarian trying to learn how to be a party girl so my social life wouldn't rot completely. The good thing about this movie is the trendy people aren't incredibly irritating like real-life trendy people. The bad thing about this movie is, it's pretty lame. The funniest part is when Party Girl's friend calls Sisyphus Syphillis.
Rating Scale
***** loved it enough to pay a full $19.95 to get it on video
**** liked it enough to buy it out of the $4 bin at Wal-fart
*** would tape it off of T.V.
** would watch in a daze of breakfast cereal and procrastination if it was on T.V.
* wouldn't even do that...