Tim Appelo

Tim Appelo, former video critic of Entertainment Weekly, has written cultural criticism for the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and the New York Times.

American Buffaloer American Buffaloer

David Mamet's Heist is tasty, but not quite aces.

Nov 29, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Tim Appelo

The Thin Blue Line The Thin Blue Line

A review of Training Day, a film by Antoine Fuqua, starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke.

Nov 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Tim Appelo

A Simple Twist of Fate A Simple Twist of Fate

Serendipity is rotten cotton candy. No, more like actual cotton dipped in rich, drippy chocolate--the confection hawked by Catch-22's greedhead Milo Minderbinder. About a quarter ...

Oct 18, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Tim Appelo

Virtual Pinocchio Virtual Pinocchio

Why did Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick want Spielberg to direct Kubrick's A.I., the fable of a robot who wants a human mother's love? Imagine the personals ad Kubrick might ...

Jul 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Tim Appelo

The Dogmeteers The Dogmeteers

It's been six years since Dogme 95 nailed its ten-point "Vow of Chastity" to the door of world cinema. Lars von Trier's gang of four Danish film rebels flung an inkwell at the fat...

Jun 7, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Tim Appelo

Ripley, Believe It or Not Ripley, Believe It or Not

Tim Appelo reviews the film With a Friend Like Harry.

May 3, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Tim Appelo

Chasing the Chador Chasing the Chador

Pauline Kael (that scamp) once called the Italian neorealist classic The Earth Trembles "the best boring movie ever made." Today the earth is inundated with Iranian neo-neorealism...

Apr 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Tim Appelo

According to Doyle According to Doyle

Which Booker Prize-winner could give Hollywood the boot in the arse it needs and secretly craves? Roddy Doyle, that's who. His Barrytown Trilogy (The Commitments, The Snapper, The...

Mar 30, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Tim Appelo

Dinner Theater Dinner Theater

When I taught at Ted Bundy's alma mater, one student wrote this report: "He was our babysitter. He was not a very nice babysitter. He would play games and scare us and then say th...

Mar 8, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Tim Appelo

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