AwesomeZara

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Favorite Movies: The Fisher King, Clerks, Mallrats, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Say Anything, read more Secretary, The Doom Generation, Punch Drunk Love, Dazed & Confused, The Spirit of '76, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Good Girl, Serenity, The Goonies, Encino Man, Gone With the Wind, Barbarella and anything else that will make me look uber-cool in the eyes of JoBlo.com readers

Likes: Cheering on the Ventura County Derby Darlin's with my 9 year read more old future roller derby jammer, spending more money outfitting my Sims than I do myself, scavenging through the dollar bins trying to find my favorite discarded hair metal bands on CD and telling my baby sister that she smells like poo. Oh, and watching movies.

The Bottom Shelf #126

Posted 19 years ago

Everyone and their mother thinks that they can write a movie about relationships these days. Not just the standard rom-com, either. These people think they’re redefining the genre by opening some can of insightful whoop-ass on the viewer. I say...

The Bottom Shelf #125

Posted 19 years ago

I would break my rules for Peter Dinklage. I’ve got this thing against guys under 5’8″. You know how some people are afraid of clowns? Yeah, well I get wonky around short guys. But Dinklage is the exception. These are...

The Bottom Shelf #124

Posted 19 years ago

Writing The Bottom Shelf has prevented me from watching BABEL. Oh, I could have seen it in the theaters, I suppose, but it just wasn’t one of those movies that I felt like dropping change on at the theater. So...

The Bottom Shelf #123

Posted 19 years ago

Americana. There’s nothing more American than spending time with your friends, going on roadtrips and drinking too much. Or growing and harvesting a fortune’s worth of marijuana. Those are the very things that the American lifestyle is (or should be)...

The Bottom Shelf #122

Posted 19 years ago

Small town life. It’s supposed to be simple, untroubled and boring. Most of the time it is. But when cinema comes and gets its hands on small town life, it becomes anything but boring. Here are a couple of good...

The Bottom Shelf #121

Posted 19 years ago

Terry Gilliam is one of those directors that most people either love or hate. Most of his films are filled with a large amount of smoke and mirrors, oddball expressionism and imagination in Technicolor. Personally, I think that’s kinda cool....

The Bottom Shelf #120

Posted 19 years ago

I’m feeling like a girl lately. It could be attributed to a number of things, but more likely than not it’s because I like a boy. Amazing how we have all this progression over hundreds of years and we’re (or...

The Bottom Shelf #119

Posted 19 years ago

Last week I profiled some more recent examples of sophomoric sex humour. This week, I thought I’d go retro and look at how it used to be done when I was younger and sneaking a viewing was exciting rather than...

The Bottom Shelf #118

Posted 19 years ago

This summer there are a slew of movies which struggled to make a PG-13 rating. Those that struggled less than others are still filled with a ton of violence. Those featuring boobs and bad language were down for the count...

The Bottom Shelf #117

Posted 19 years ago

It’s a mystery to me how movies certain movies get made. How at this point in our evolution, we still try to mine humour in crap that’s just a boring fact of life these days. But hey, I don’t watch...

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