Email Author Gregory Weinkauf

2000 Stories by Gregory Weinkauf

• Better in Pairs

  published December 28, 2000

  Welcome to the cinema, the great communal meditation chamber, circa 2000. Okay, now throw open all the exit doors, because some of our communal... More >>

• Special Delivery

  published December 21, 2000

  During the summer of 1994, while most of the world was greeting Robert Zemeckis's Forrest Gump with dewy eyes and outstretched arms, this... More >>

• A Box of Chocolat

  published December 21, 2000

  Here you will find the ingredients required to whip an audience into the throes of fuzzy warmheartedness -- the hope, the compassion, the joie de... More >>

• Sex for Dummies

  published December 14, 2000

  Assessing the merits of Quills, the lusty new feature by director Philip Kaufman (Henry and June), it's tempting to seek... More >>

• Quite a Spread

  published November 23, 2000

  Given the stress and emotional turmoil associated with family holidays, in the cinema as in life, it's very peculiar that anyone feels obliged to... More >>

• Clone Wars

  published November 16, 2000

  R efreshingly, the biggest wonder about the new Arnold Schwarzenegger ride is not that human cloning has become a reality, nor that the America of... More >>

• A Snooze Runs Through It

  published November 2, 2000

  Gopher. Explosives. Gopher explosives. Gopher! Explosives! There. Now you know exactly what was running through this critic's mind... More >>

• Paid In Full

  published October 19, 2000

  To put it mildly, it is uncomfortable and embarrassing to have one's cynical ass whipped by a huge, hulking Hallmark card, and this is exactly the... More >>

• Hitting Below the Belt

  published October 5, 2000

  It takes a special kind of mind-set to celebrate castration, and audiences confusing feminine empowerment with the crude hacking off of seemingly... More >>

• Pointed Love

  published September 28, 2000

  According to Patrice Leconte, women live to be vulnerable, men thrive when they're in command, and the two genders can find a happy fusion only... More >>

• Unusual Punishment

  published September 14, 2000

  First off, a full disclosure: This reviewer considers Dostoyevsky to be terminally boring, and would sooner read just about any cereal box or, for... More >>

• State of the Union

  published September 7, 2000

  It sounds crazy to say this of a Neil LaBute movie, considering the dubious auteur's semipathetic thumping of his own hollow chest, but Nurse... More >>

• Turn of the Screwball

  published August 24, 2000

  "Be cool, get chicks." While that's paraphrased and boiled down, it's nonetheless the essential creed of Dex (Donal Logue), the corpulent... More >>

• Invisible Id

  published August 3, 2000

  There are many, many productive paths a bright, ambitious young fellow can pursue in America. He can, for instance, start a mediocre rock band and... More >>

• Giving Up the Ghost

  published July 20, 2000

  Rather than asking if this senseless and expensive new film from wunderkind entertainer Robert Zemeckis is devoid of merit (it is), or "worth... More >>

• Blueprint in Blood

  published July 13, 2000

  So who are these celebrated Coen brothers anyway, and what's their point? These days, it's pretty easy to switch over to critical autopilot, to... More >>

• Whistlin' Trixie

  published July 13, 2000

  Murphy and Pryor. Skywalker and Kenobi. Amos and Zeppelin. Regardless of the creative universe, the maverick apprentice tends to stride off into... More >>

• Free-Range Chicken

  published June 22, 2000

  About nine years ago, in a humble Redondo Beach nightclub, urbane British folk singer Billy Bragg reappraised 20th-century politics by means of an... More >>

• Dream On

  published June 15, 2000

  "Industrial-strength boredom" is a vicious term to unload on anybody -- friend, foe or former actress. Considering the lingering discomfort it... More >>

• Sexual Healing?

  published June 8, 2000

  So, when was the last time you shared a woman with your dad? You know, just some woman that you and your dad both dug, who perked you up a bit.... More >>

• Love in the Time of Chundering

  published May 25, 2000

  To begin, let us discuss puking. You know, upchucking, barfing, yacking, Technicolor yawning, blowing cookies, driving the porcelain bus,... More >>

• Serious as Hell

  published May 4, 2000

  There is a killing late in Gladiator, Ridley Scott's new heroic epic, and it is one of those wonderfully cathartic extinguishings that make... More >>

• Damsels in Distress

  published May 4, 2000

  Everybody's a princess at one point or another. Rich girls work it from birth to final crack-up. Bourgeois girls play the... More >>

• New Frequency

  published April 27, 2000

  Go get a few grains of salt to accompany these observations of tenable consistency: The movie industry is run by big kids; nifty sci-fi trickery... More >>

• Mixmaster

  published April 6, 2000

  Beats, please: Claudia Schiffer, Claudia Schiffer / makes a fellow want to lean in close and sniff her. / Putting up a gender fight in... More >>