Lollipop Magazine

Run, Lola, Run – Review

September 1, 1999

Lola runs. The techno blares. She passes a clock and sees that she only has ten more minutes. The movie has sixty more. How is the filmmaker going to do it?

Winter into Spring ’99 – The Biography of Everett Stillwell – Column

June 1, 1999

Feeling scared and vulnerable, Stillwell decided to play it cool and hitchhike into the mountains, eat weeds, and have nothing to do with movies for a while.

The Lonelies – Part Two – Fiction

June 1, 1999

As Will hurried through the dark, freezing streets, he thought about the plan: Get the hell out of this town, marry Winona Ryder, and live happily ever after. All he had to do was write a book…

The Lonelies – Part One: Sunday Night – Fiction

April 1, 1999

Find me, I have placed myself in films just to help you locate me. Find me and we can then share the love neither of us has and it will be true and wonderful and eternal…

Two Guys on Paul Schrader – Column

April 1, 1999

Affliction is what you get when there’s perfect harmony between all the elements of film: The directing, writing, cinematography, set design, editing, acting…

The End of the End – Part Two – Column

April 1, 1998

Everett Stillwell and myself sit in his cabin. Outside, the night is hostile and frigid. We’re drinking cheap wine, watching TV, and talking about queers.

The Year in Movies – Column

March 1, 1998

When I found 1997 wandering through the woods of Northern Maine, she looked chilled and distracted, so I took her back to my cabin for a hot toddy or two.

A Life Less Ordinary – Review

December 1, 1997

This should have been just a madcap, goofy, directed-by-Carl-Reiner sort of comedy. They threw in gratuitous violence, bad hair, bad skin, and bad singing.

Hoodlum – Review

November 1, 1997

The marginally true story of Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson from his release from Sing Sing, to his rise to the top of the 1930’s Harlem number’s racket empire.

Event Horizon – Review

November 1, 1997

Event Horizon bars itself from being a truly great movie because it’s still only recycling without adding any thematic twists to the material.