Lollipop Magazine

Cine-Trash Field Report – Column

December 1, 1997

Empire Records lie waiting for me, the “brain”child of one Allan Moyle, a man responsible for foisting some of the most heavy-handed teensploitation tales ever.

King Ink II – Review

December 1, 1997

“The Flesh Made Word,” a piece Cave wrote for broadcast on BBC Radio, is one of the finest, most eloquent things he has ever written.

Mr. Show – Bob Odenkirk – David Cross – Interview

December 1, 1997

An interview with Bob Odenkirk and David Cross

The Culture Bunker – The Future Is Now, Please Bill Me Later – Fiction

December 1, 1997

With December comes the end of another wildly adequate year of cutting-edge journalism, edgy opinion-making, and our single-handed revival of the payola craze.

Julie Strain – Interview

December 1, 1997

An interview with Julie Strain

Boogie Nights – Review

December 1, 1997

Anderson loves each of his characters for all their flaws and failings, letting them put themselves through the wringer but always welcoming them home.

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.

High Dudgeon and Low Self-Esteem – I, X – Fiction

December 1, 1997

I’m torn between getting this hatred and disgust that lies within me in steaming clots out once and for all and maneuvering my mouse to “no” when asked to save.

Wig Rodeo – Review

November 1, 1997

There’s nothing like a nice blast of sub-independent no-budget filmmaking to clear the Hollywood-narcotized brain every once in a while.

The Full Monty – Review

November 1, 1997

Age, class, body type, and sexual preference, the usual barriers to inter-gender relationships, all break down in the course of this daft undertaking