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I am not schizophrenic, but I identified very deeply with "Julien Donkey-Boy." If you have ever struggled with mental illness — and can handle the movie's distinctly "indie" style — I suspect you will too. Like many films written and directed by Harmony Korine, there...

There is a lot to like in "Mister Lonely," Harmony Korine's 2007 oddity about a group of celebrity impersonators who live on their own island. Like his best work — including "Gummo," "Julien-Donkey Boy" and "Trash Humpers" — Korine identifies with the fringiest...

America is a nation of consumers. All human beings throughout history have consumed, of course — for survival, pleasure or both — but there is a difference between consuming out of necessity or for enjoyment and doing so as an obsessive indulgence. One look at...

Indie films are often criticized for being pretentious, and to be sure quite a few richly deserve that epithet. Yet there is a difference between going out of your way to seem "artsy" and actually having an authentic, offbeat way of using the medium of cinema to tell...

"Halloween H20" is the worst film in the series, and for one reason… its distracting plot holes. If you've seen the first two "Halloween" movies, which were released in 1978 and 1980, I can't imagine why you're reading this article. They are staples of the American...

Jim Carrey channeling Ace Ventura when he plays Joe Biden is PERFECT. His critics are wrong. Why? It's simple: Laughter is cathartic, and Ventura/Biden taunting a fascist is objectively hilarious. If you can't see why, your funny bone is broken. I guarantee I'll...

"Freeze! Get the hell away from her, Ed!" The iconic slasher villain Jason Voorhees was, like Michael Myers from the "Halloween" series, defined in part by his silence. The first eight "Friday the 13th" films only showed him talking as a child, when he was drowning to...

"Friday the 13th: A New Beginning" is perhaps the most obscure film in the classic "Friday the 13th" series. It does not deserve that fate for three reasons: (1) It contains some of the most interesting characters in the franchise, (2) It includes some of the most...