Articles by Kathleen Olmstead

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  Willard

  Glen Morgan

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2003

  This is one of the few remakes that didn't suck. Willard retains the creepy weirdness of the original while acknowledging its camp qualitie...

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  Targets / Paper Moon / Daisy Miller

  Peter Bogdanovich

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2003

  Bogdanovich is America's answer to Truffaut — a journalist that stepped behind the camera — without all that groundbreaking cinema stuff. F...

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  Cold Creek Manor

  Mike Figgis

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2003

  It's not just that this film is terrible (and it is terrible), it's that it felt like a big bunch of nothing, like they weren't even trying...

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  Once Upon a Time in the Midlands

  Shane Meadows

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2003

  The conceit of Once Upon a Time in the Midlands is made obvious by the title — classic machismo cinema against a working class British back...

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  The Sure Thing

  Rob Reiner

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2003

  There's an entity known as a John Cusack movie and The Sure Thing is where it all began. The fast-talking charmer that makes many a gal put...

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  Le Divorce

  James Ivory

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2003

  You would think the world would've had enough of silly films about culture clashes, but I look around and I see it isn't so. Le Divorce tac...

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  The Shape of Things

  Neil LaBute

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2003

  Neil LaBute's films often feel like experiments rather than stories; he questions the moral content and ambiguity of relationships, the imp...

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  Love Liza

  Todd Louiso

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2003

  The story of Love Liza is very simple. Wilson's (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) wife has committed suicide and left him a letter that he's unable...