Email Author Jim Ridley

Awards

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 24, 2005

  "Blown Opportunity"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 19, 2005

  "Lost in the Stars"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 1, 2005

  "Pulling Punch Lines"

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2007 Stories by Jim Ridley

• The Year In Film

  published December 27, 2007

  Absolutely, unequivocally, this has been The Year of The Apatow: Judd got Knocked Up to the tune of $150 million (at the box office... More >>

• Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

  published December 20, 2007

  As an actor, John C. Reilly is the opposite of Mr. Cellophane. He doesn't disappear into a role; roles disappear onto him — the unlikely... More >>

• Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

  published December 6, 2007

  Punk died, the Silver Jews sang, the first time a kid shouted, "Punk's not dead!" The words are never uttered in Julien Temple's Joe... More >>

• The Princess Bride, Killer of Sheep, Innocence, La Vie en Rose

  published November 15, 2007

  The Princess Bride: 20th Anniversary Edition (MGM) As far as anniversary-edition DVDs go, The Princess Bride... More >>

• Margot at the Wedding

  published November 15, 2007

  here are comedies of discomfort, and then there's Margot at the Wedding, Noah Baumbach's scalding follow-up to The Squid and... More >>

• Directors Series: Stanley Kubrick, American Gangster, Mr. Brooks, Days of Heaven

  published October 25, 2007

  Directors Series: Stanley Kubrick (Warner Bros.) Most of the old Kubrick DVDs were crap: full-screen editions with... More >>

• Transformers, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Crazy Love and Treasures III: Social Issues in American Film

  published October 18, 2007

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• Gone Baby Gone

  published October 18, 2007

  "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid," Raymond Chandler wrote in 1950's The... More >>

• You Kill Me, Evan Almighty, American Silent Horror Collection and Mala Noche: The Criterion Collection

  published October 11, 2007

  You Kill Me (Genius) Funny thing seeing Philip Baker Hall in You Kill Me, as he's already played the role of... More >>

• Caligula: Imperial Edition, The Paul Lynde Halloween Special, 1408: Collector's Edition and Mystics in Bali

  published October 4, 2007

  Caligula: Imperial Edition (Penthouse) (Spoiler alert: Fisting!) One day back in the swingin' '70s, somebody... More >>

• In the Shadow of the Moon

  published September 20, 2007

  Four decades ago, the American space program was synonymous with the pinnacle of human achievement. Thirty-eight years later, the program that... More >>

• Keeping The Meter Running

  published August 16, 2007

  Taxi Driver: Collectors Edition (Sony) Listen, you fuckers, you screwheads: Here is a man who would not take it anymore. Martin... More >>

• Black Sheep

  published August 9, 2007

  They're here, they're fluffy and they're pissed. Not since 1972's Night of the Lepus, that clarion call to the clear and present danger of... More >>

• Interview

  published July 26, 2007

  Steve Buscemi the director is nothing like the art-damaged auteur Buscemi the actor played in 1995's Living in Oblivion. No dry ice and... More >>

• Chow Time Again

  published July 26, 2007

  Hard Boiled: Two-Disc Ultimate Edition (Weinstein) The Criterion version of John Woo's masterpiece, about two cops (the... More >>

• Cold War Reheated

  published July 19, 2007

  Red Dawn: Collector's Edition (MGM) John Milius' 1984 war pic was a mighty bonkers release even back then; not since the 1950s... More >>

• When He Was Small

  published July 5, 2007

  Chancer: Series 1 (Acorn) Available solely in the U.K. for years, this is a small-time release featuring a modestly big-time... More >>

• Crackers & Cheese

  published June 28, 2007

  Black Snake Moan (Paramount) The best place to see Craig Brewer's mash-up of blood-boiling exploitation elements would be a... More >>

• Maybe too Hard

  published June 21, 2007

  Die Hard Collection (Fox) You don't need to watch the included preview of Live Free or Die Hard to know it's going to... More >>

• Sagebrush & Spaghetti

  published June 7, 2007

  The Sergio Leone Anthology (MGM) Sergio Leone made westerns like Wagner made ditties. This essential boxed set -- four films... More >>

• DVDs

  published March 15, 2007

  Casino Royale (Sony) James Bond gets a stirring shake-up in the best -- yeah, Goldfinger fans, the best -- film... More >>

• Spoiler Alert

  published March 1, 2007

  It is November 7, election day in America, the year of our Lord 2000, and en route to the ballot (screen, chad dimpler, whatever) every hand... More >>

• Death Becomes her

  published February 22, 2007

  Karen Moncrieff's The Dead Girl is the scrap-bag opposite of a torture-porn movie -- or more precisely, a patchwork made up... More >>

• Chick Flick

  published February 22, 2007

  Shut Up & Sing (Genius) It's a shame that one of 2006's best documentaries is being released without extras; it would have been... More >>

• Message Bored

  published February 8, 2007

  What could be scarier than yet another PG-13 creepfest serving up pasty, staggering ghouls with stringy hair? Why, the same PG-13 creepfest set... More >>