I wasn’t planning on doing a Learn From This about Twilight or even mention Twilight it’s message about relationships. To me, it felt a little too much like beating up a special-needs kid. Obviously things have changed. I had been planning to ignore the release of the penultimate movie in the fiction series that JUST!…
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Learn From This: Swingers
Swingers was a pivotal film in many ways. A critical darling and a cult hit, it launched the careers of Doug Liman, John Favreau and Vince Vaughn. It helped usher in a new trend in screenwriting and was directly responsible for the Swing revival of the late 90s. It introduced the phrases “Vegas, baby, Vegas”…
Learn From This: Pump Up The Volume
This one, I will have to confess, is a favorite of mine. There aren’t too many movies, especially in the 90s when this came out, that were this emotionally honest about what it’s like to be a teenager. The movie’s an interesting allegory. On one level, it’s a geeky guy’s attempt to not only keep…
Learn From This: Love and Other Drugs
You know, I wasn’t planning to like this. I was honestly expecting a fairly lame, by-the-numbers boy-meets-girl-boy-loses-girl-boy-gets-girl with a variation on the Magic Indie Pixie Girl. I wasn’t expecting a remarkably touching relationship film, and I certainly wasn’t expecting a surprisingly subtle damning critique of the pharmaceutical and insurance companies. Although I’ve got to admit, Anne Hathaway’s copious…