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Something Not Played Out

I didn’t find Funny Games particularly scary on a visceral level. I’m not saying this to suggest I have a hard stomach for movies like this. I don’t. I over-think them and too often imagine what it would be like to be in the characters’ shoes. I try to freak myself out. Funny Games invites its audience to do just that – freak itself out. Funny Games establishes a genre that marries horror with documentary.

by Justine Chaney on August 11, 2009March 17, 2013

One Sentence of the Aeneid

The concept for this article – reviewing a book based on one random sentence – is borrowed from an article printed in the literary magazine The Believer. Virgil’s Aeneid “A chill swept over Aeneas; his limbs went weak; he moaned … Read More

by Justine Chaney on August 11, 2009March 17, 2013

My, What Big Teeth You Have!

I don’t quite understand why the advertising team behind Mitchell Lichtenstein’s Teeth decided to market it as “the most alarming cautionary tale for men … since Fatal Attraction.” The storyline of Teeth stems from the vagina dentate myth, which has … Read More

by Justine Chaney on August 11, 2009March 17, 2013

Week in Review

Rarely in this age of metaphysical detachment do we encounter such an utter embrace of the visceral as found in Riskay’s gift to the ages, “Smell Yo Dick”. In this piece, Riskay laments what she believes represents the steady decay … Read More

by Justine Chaney on August 11, 2009March 17, 2013

Bristol and Levi (Finally) Luck Out

But in all the hubbub of Bristol’s pregnancy, one major issue was almost left untouched:  the question of statutory rape.  Sexual abuse laws vary from state to state, and according to Alaskan laws, Levi should be in no trouble at all.

by Justine Chaney on August 11, 2009March 17, 2013

David Mamet Talking To His Son

DM: Son, I’d like you to come over here. JOE: Come over there? DM: Yes, come over here. JOE: But yesterday you said– DM: Why don’t you come– JOE: Yesterday at Disneyland– DM: –come and sit over here. JOE: [looking … Read More

by Justine Chaney on August 11, 2009March 17, 2013

There’s Good News and Bad News

Dad, that email you sent with your top 25 YouTube vid’s from the summer of ’08 was great.

by Justine Chaney on August 11, 2009March 17, 2013

Playing Telephone

And the winner for the 2008 Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off is… Bill Lane!”

Bill leaned into his wife for a kiss. His son beamed and Bill acknowledged the little boy’s pride with a hearty shake of his shoulder. Bill rose and to acknowledge the audience’s cheers, he smiled, clutched his enormous belt buckle between his thumbs and his forefingers, and yanked up the front of his pants.

by Justine Chaney on August 11, 2009March 17, 2013

Restaurants in Review

Sotto Happy Hour: Drinks That Rival Starbuck’s Pumpkin Spice Frappuccino Though it is no replacement for the Annex, Sotto happy hour is still the best deal in town. House wine and mixed drinks are only two fifty; cocktails like the … Read More

by Justine Chaney on February 14, 2008March 17, 2013

Museumologies

When I stepped into the René Magritte exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, I stepped into a Magritte painting. The artist in many of his paintings depicted the ultimate “common man,” pudgy and ambivalent in bowler hat, … Read More

by Justine Chaney on April 25, 2007March 17, 2013

Breathless at 47

“All in all, I’m a dumb bastard… If you’ve got to, you’ve got to.” Thus criminal Michel Poiccard opens in a voice-over in Jean-Luc Godard’s classic 1960 film À bout de soufflé (Breathless). Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo) looks up from a … Read More

by Justine Chaney on March 7, 2007March 17, 2013


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