- BEING MICHAEL MADSEN (DVD MOVIE)
Features: Wide Screen PresentationConsidering that Andrzej Sekula, director of The Pleasure Drivers, was Quentin Tarantino's cinematographer on Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, it's not too surprising that this 2005 film sometimes echoes the latter's approach. Indeed, were it not for the fact that the story makes little sense, the dialogue isn't funny, the characters are poorly drawn, and the acting is almost uniformly sub-par, you! might think this was the work of Tarantino himself. As it is, Sekula has made a movie that clearly values style over substance, achieving a modicum of the former and almost none of the latter. Screenwriter Adam Haynes' story revolves primarily around a low-life "caregiver" (Lauren Holly) tending to a mentally unstable young man (Angelo Spizzirri) whose father, some kind of cult leader, has been less than forthcoming with the financial support she depends on; her solution is to kidnap the kid's equally weird sister (Steffany Huckaby). Meanwhile, a full-of-himself professor-therapist (Angus MacFadyen) who constantly whispers Freudian drivel into a tape recorder finds himself rejected by his wife and glommed on to by an oversexed student (Lacy Chabert). These folks, along with "a vicious lesbian hit woman" (no, really), come together somewhere in the Southern California desert, where the film mercifully comes to a close. Sekula favors moody lighting and odd camera angles, the! better to illuminate a cast of scenery-chewing, unlikable cha! racters drifting through a tale that will intrigue almost no one. The cover blurb notes that The Pleasure Drivers has been "described as funny, sexy, edgy and dangerous." Maybe so, but that description must have come from someone who didn't actually see it. --Sam GrahamBE MY BABY - DVD MovieSHERMAN'S WAY - DVD MovieHOMETOWN LEGEND - DVD MovieNEW WAVE - DVD MovieJunior senator Maggie Davidson (Lauren Holly), a hard-liner against terrorism has become a figurehead for anti-terrorist action. Unbeknownst to Maggie, she has been singled out to be another figurehead-- a terrorist sleeper cell in the suburban D.C. metro area mobilizes a plan to blow up a dirty bomb on the National Mall with Maggie being killed in the blast. Fatwa explores the concepts of power, control, fear, ethics, and duty in a post-9/11 world. Gone are the days when we can remain ignorant of such issues.JANUARY 2007 ISSUE OF MAXIM MAGAZINE. COVER FEATURES LACEY CHABERT, ARTICLES INCLUDE 20 GREATES SPORTS M! ELTDOWNS, WARREN BUFFETTS, AND MORE.Michael Madsen stars as Michael Madsen, a famous movie star buckling under the pressures of tabloid rumors ranging from a gay romance to the murder of a young actress. Driven to the end of his rope, Michael Madsen decides it is time to turn the tables on the media and hires a team of documentarians to torment the man behind the rumors, Billy Dant (Jason Alan Smith). The film crew catalogues Dant s life with the same paparazzi flair that has been tormenting Madsen. Included interviews in this mockumentary by David Carradine, Harry Dean Stanton, Daryl Hanna and Virginia Madsen.
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