Cinema Sutra: True Romance

The film: Christian Slater plays a depressed dude whose friends hire prostitute Patricia Arquette to give him a little loving pick-me-up. Since it's… Jack Harrison | 12.29.2009 | Comments (4)

Cinema Sutra: Bad Santa

The movie: Degenerate, alcoholic, lascivious, and thieving Billy Bob Thornton makes a bang-up Santa, along with his diminutive and equally depraved… Jack Harrison | 12.15.2009 | Comments (4)

Cinema Sutra: Forgetting Sarah Marshall

The movie: Forgetting Sarah Marshall was the 2008 Judd Apatow offering in which a broken-hearted dude (Jason Segel) flees to Hawaii to try and stop… Jack Harrison | 12.1.2009 | Comments (6)

Cinema Sutra: Pretty Woman

The movie: In this famously sappy — but at times quite moving — romance, Julia Roberts plays the least-convincing prostitute in cinematic history (she… Jack Harrison | 11.17.2009 | Comments (3)

Cinema Sutra: Cruel Intentions

The movie: A modern-day remake of the eighteenth-century classic (and naughty, naughty novel) Les Liaisons dangereuses — this time with wealthy New… Jack Harrison | 11.10.2009 | Comments (2)

Cinema Sutra: Showgirls

The movie: The notoriously bad and gratuitously sexed-up Showgirls was universally panned when it came out in 1995, but has since evolved into a camp… Jack Harrison | 11.3.2009 | Comments (5)

Cinema Sutra: Bram Stoker's Dracula

The movie: I think you know the story, but in this 1992 film rendition we have Sadie Frost as Lucy Westerna, the vamp's tramp, and Winona Ryder as Mina,… Jack Harrison | 10.27.2009 | Comments (1)

Cinema Sutra: Eyes Wide Shut

The movie: The once-great Stanley Kubrick must have known he was coming to the end of his days and thought to himself, "Screw my reputation as a talented… Jack Harrison | 10.20.2009 | Comments (0)

Cinema Sutra: Bound

The movie: A thriller in the noir tradition, Bound adds a nice twist by having the revenging, thieving wife (Jennifer Tilly) have a lesbian affair with… Jack Harrison | 10.13.2009 | Comments (3)

Cinema Sutra: Poison Ivy

The movie: Drew Barrymore's new film, Whip It!, debuts this week (sorry, pervoes, it's about roller derby, not flagellation), and while we're proud of… Jack Harrison | 10.6.2009 | Comments (0)