The Cineaste's Lament.

The first drive-in opened on June 6th in 1933 in New Jersey. Once upon a time there were over 5000 of them. Today the number is around 360. Get your pj’s on and let’s go to the drive-in!! I have fond memories as a child of going to the drive-in with my parents, but even more fun memories of going with my husband (then boyfriend)! There have been many jokes about drive-ins and what really went on in the cars. Like this one, What do you call a drive-in, wall-to-wall car-petting! Thanks to the privacy factor, it made drive-ins notorious as “Passion Pits”! The back seat became the first place many young women and young men, lost their virginity! Back then the car was your private viewing room where you could talk and not disturb anyone. I’m just sayin………………

Snow White and the Huntsman

Let’s set aside my deep-seeded belief that Kristen Stewart can’t act out of a box. We’ll also put aside my girl-crush on Charlize Theron and the drool-worthly-ness of Chris Hemsworth in scruff.

I wanted to see this becaue of the darkness of the plot-no funny silly Julia Roberts here, but a dark fairytale worthy of the Grimm stories.

UGH! OK, sure, it’s a fairytale, but come on, people! I don’t care how hot Chris Hemsworth is in his huntsman gear, he’s a commoner and no princess can marry a commoner in that day and age (medieval times). None of them. No.

And what was the point of the duke? To show that Snow White is a modern gal and can choose her own destiny? Choose her own man?

Works perfectly in a modern story, even a modern retellling that takes place in a modern timeline…

Hello and welcome to the latest installment of Criterion Cuts, the weekly article where I dig into the archives of everyone’s favorite foreign/art house home video distribution company and unearth some obscurity and tell you just why it might be worth your time. As always, most of these come from the generous offerings available to Hulu Plus subscribers unless otherwise noted.

So recently Amazon decided to put a bunch of random Criterion Blu-Rays on sale for some reasonable-to-good prices, and in kicked my obsession with owning pretty Criterion releases. For anyone who doesn’t know just how my madness works, if it was up to me I would own everything Criterion releases as soon as they put it out. Alas, since nobody has seen fit to give me a pile of money, I’ve had to come up some rules. Those rules are as follows:

1. Always buy Blu-Ray
2. Always wait until at least…

Charlize Theron is probably the best-and fiercest- evil queen I have ever seen. Other celebs that already portrayed the evil queen include Sigouney Weaver in “Snow White: A Tale of Terror”, and more recently, Julia Roberts in “Mirror Mirror”. And while I haven’t seen those two films, I am quite certain that Charlize Theron will hold the crown as the baddest bitch in the game.

And while I may not consider myself as a Kristen Stewart fan, (I haven’t seen any of those ‘Twilight’ sequels,and I am not bothered.), I was quite surprised that she can actually act. And Good Heavens, this girl is gorgeous! She delivered an exceptional portrayal of Snow White–tough and fragile at the same time. I am now convinced that Kristen Stewart is one of the best actresses that we have in our generation.

Chris Hemsworth, on the other hand, gave us one of the most…