Year: 1998

Vegas Vacation Boy, I thought Trainspotting was enough to put me off drugs forever. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas puts Trainspotting to shame when it comes to exposing the glamorous drug culture: the daily vomiting, the wallowing in your own filth, the insane paranoia, the sickening hallucinations, the waking up with a lizard tail … more…

At first glance, it would seem to offer the perfect role for Paxton: that of a sturdy, all-American kinda man not too strung out on testosterone. But A Bright Shining Lie rarely lets Paxton express in action the passion he keeps talking about.

Godzilla, cheesy as it is, is more like Spam — some of the parts you recognize as edible in other, more natural forms, but you probably don’t want to know where the other ingredients came from. And like Spam, Godzilla kinda leaves a funny coppery taste in your mouth.

The world needs more flicks like Mouse Hunt — well, my world does, anyway. It’s nasty, wacky, Tim-Burton weird, and funny as hell.

Can men and women ever be ‘just friends’? What actually constitutes virginity? Is Star Wars racist, or does the presence of Lando Calrissian belie that? These questions are important to those of us under 30, and we take the search for answers seriously…

As a certified Heartless Bitch, I gotta love a man who said ‘There is no sin except stupidity.’ Whether he uttered that before or after his 1895 trial for ‘gross indecency’ (i.e. homosexuality), Oscar Wilde had to be all too aware of the irony…

Michael Collins was a revolutionary, a patriot. At the risk of oversimplifying, Collins was kinda an Irish George Washington — he wanted to kick some British butt in aid of independence for his country. His story is full of drama and great personalities and stuff blowing up…

But like many Irish dramatic endeavors, The Butcher Boy is both comedy and tragedy, so Francie’s is a little more tortured than the typical childhood. And Francie himself is more unstable than most kids…