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Stormin' Mormon

SLC Punk! shows young rebels, but not their relevance

By Michael Sragow
May 6, 1999

The SLC in SLC Punk! stands for Salt Lake City, but it might as well stand for Some Lucky Chump. The filmmaker, James Merendino, has stated that this tale of two punk buddies trying to spread anarchy through the Utah capital in 1985 reflects his own rebellious teenage years there...
Great Pods

Comic eXistenZ turns erotic mind games into sigh-fi

By Michael Sragow
Apr 22, 1999

Just as David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986) came off as an organic reaction to a terrible new wasting disease, his new movie crystallizes the confusions of an epoch that can't decide whether it's the Entertainment Era, the Information Age or the Digital Millennium. Named for a fictional "game system" also...
Out-of-Steppers

Steve Martin misses the spark in this remake

By Michael Sragow
Apr 8, 1999

Steve Martin says he doesn't want audiences to expect the same old Steve Martin whenever he stars in a comedy. But that means one thing when he's referring to Roxanne and L.A. Story, two inspired flights of romantic farce (based on his own scripts), and another when he's talking about...
Reel Time

EDtv tries to upstage Truman on TV's impact

By Michael Sragow
Mar 25, 1999

"I hope it's better than The Truman Show," said the woman in line behind me at the publicized "sneak preview" of EDtv. Afterward a man in my row declared, "That was a lot better than The Truman Show." Pretentious high-concept films like The Truman Show often garner accolades and let...
Myles of Ego

Smugness spoils the pursuit of romance in 20 Dates

By Michael Sragow
Mar 25, 1999

Self-serving confessions are a mainstay of bestseller lists; now we're doomed to see their ilk on screen. The film 20 Dates is the not-so-verite story of Myles Berkowitz, a tyro filmmaker in his mid-thirties who tries to advance his career and up his happiness quotient by filming himself on a...

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