“Slacker” is a movie with an appeal almost impossible to describe, although the method of the director,Richard Linklater, is as clear as day. He wants to show us a certain strata of campus life at the present time — a group of people he calls “slackers,” although anyone who has e...
he became fascinated with slackers, spent years writing down their off-center comments in notebooks, and finally decided that the world cried out for a movie that showed slackers being slack, that followed aimless people on an aimless tour of their aimless lives. ...
Jay & Seth vs. The Apocalypsewas the 2007 short that inspired the movie, so its cool to see that included on the Blu-ray, along with the usual gag reel, outtakes, line-o-rama (highlighting those improv skills), and deleted scenes that you’ve come to expect from an Apatow Frat Pack...
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(and a Super 8 mm epic) under his belt, he had acquired a building just off the interstate to house his production company, Detour, and to hang his astonishing collection of Polish movie posters. Detour was named for the memorable Edgar G. Ulmer film noir about a hapless guy who goes ...
An end-of-the road movie, “Slacker” begins with the arrival of a Greyhound bus in Austin, where a garrulous passenger (played by Linklater) gets into a cab. He then delivers a monologue about the separate realities that exist in the things we decide not to do (like the road Dorothy ...
Slacker Features ‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette’ Review: Richard Linklater’s Eccentric Family Comedy Doesn’t Know What it’s Looking For The most casually bizarre movie of the summer, Richard Linklater's eccentric comedy is too unfocused to make the most of Cate Blanchett. By David Ehrlich ...
(which we never see him do), yet he dresses and behaves like he’s threadbare, unemployed and going nowhere in life. The penultimate scene of the movie provides the best side-by-side comparison of the two: a self-improved Marnie, almost out of breath from working so hard at her new ...
I went to see the new Marvel Studios film Captain Marvel this weekend. Three times. That’s right I said three times. Saw it in IMAX, 3D and standard 2D. Each time was just as good as the last one. Don’t let the naysayers out there ruin this movie for you. The story is good....
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