November 19, 2011
Straight to Hell

Courtney Love in Alex Cox’s cult film Straight to Hell, yet another example of demonstrating why music stars aren’t typically good actors. Also starring Joe Strummer, Shane MacGowan and Elvis Costello. Definitely one of the worst films I’ve seen.

A far place for Courtney from recent times.

November 16, 2011
Oh, Winona

I’m awake at 1am on a weeknight, eating ramen and trying to feel alive, and it’s lead me to a late night showing of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

After initially marveling at the magical terribleness of Keanu Reeves’s Cali-“British” accent, I was reminded that this film also features that great master of the English tongue, Winona. The fact that both of these two were placed in a film as English people in the 19th century is amazing, and contributes to an almost surreally This-Is-A-Joke-Right? character carried by the film that is also nearly awesome.

I was also struck though by how beautiful Winona was. She was, in 1992, something magical, a fact that hasn’t traveled as tastes have changed and her career disintegrated. But for a few years, there was no one like her.

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