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Gregory Weinkauf

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Up for a Freak Show?

By Gregory Weinkauf
Aug 27, 2009

A miracle in midnight-movie finery; a spot-on analysis of adolescent ambition, gender struggles and xenophobia; an eternal pop-culture time capsule; Richard O'Brien's madcap musical, adapted with and directed by Jim Sharman, offers participation-primed audiences -- who aren't sounding their smartest these days -- the secret ("To life?")to life ("Itself?") itself!...
Dorkula

Blade confronts the ultimate vampire, and geeks everywhere rejoice

By Gregory Weinkauf
Dec 9, 2004

They walk among us. They resemble people, approximate our words and actions, present themselves more or less as human. And yet they are more -- a different species, with their own dark legends, their own clandestine meeting places. They are dorks, and they are going to be pretty OK with...
Peter Panache

J.M. Barrie gets a Hollywood makeover in Finding Neverland.

By Gregory Weinkauf
Dec 2, 2004

Oh, that Johnny Depp. Played in some dime-a-dozen rock bands, did some average television, made a few cutesy little movies. Whatever. Yeah, he messes with his looks in a fun way sometimes, but otherwise he merely rides that nicotine-sunken-cheeks thing all the way to the bank. The guy's popular, but...
Call Him Al

An epic story turns human -- and fallible -- in Oliver Stone's Alexander

By Gregory Weinkauf
Nov 25, 2004

If you've ever gone line dancing with a gaggle of amputees on crank and hallucinogens, you know something of the feeling engendered by viewing Alexander. This broad, bold, and ambitious film by Oliver Stone presents itself as a fairly straightforward endeavor, but its rhythms quickly go strange while its participants...
Attack of the Clones

The ghosts of Takashi Shimizu's Ju-On series return -- again -- in The Grudge

By Gregory Weinkauf
Oct 21, 2004

The Grudge bears the imprimatur of Sam Raimi, but alas, neither his sense of fun nor his smarts. The wunderkind director behind the Spider-Man and Evil Dead franchises has followed in the path of Robert Zemeckis and Joel Silver with their Dark Castle releases, launching his own lucrative spook factory,...

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