Ladies Behind the Lens: GAS, FOOD, LODGING

by Rosalie Lewis

“Some people are afraid of disappointment. Me, I’m just afraid of not having any daydreams left,” muses Shade (Fairuza Balk) after a failed romantic overture in Gas, Food, Lodging. Allison Anders’ 1991 solo feature feels like the wistful escapism of Terence Malick’s Badlands confronted by the chorus of The Replacements’ song "Unsatisfied":

Look me in the eye and tell me that I’m satisfied...
Everything you dream of is right in front of you
And everything is a lie.

FTM 504 - RETURN TO OZ

Patrick and Robyn eat poison eggs, board a Gump, and lay waste to their childhoods.

Review: Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau

by Patrick Bromley

One of the worst movies of the '90s gets an amazing tell-all documentary.