1996 Week: FREEWAY

 by Rosalie Lewis

“Get your goddamn hands off my anatomy!” shrieks a teenage Reese Witherspoon to her skeezed out stepdad in an early scene from Matthew Bright’s teensploitation take on Little Red Riding Hood. A few minutes later, she’s hitting the road after her useless parental units get hauled off to jail. Maybe the grandmother she’s never met will save her from the horrors of the foster care system, so over the freeway and through the hood to grandmother’s house (or, in this case, trailer) she goes.

HDYNK 01 - HOW DO YOU KNOW

Lexy and Mike Delaney usher in a new podcast devoted to romantic comedies, starting with James L. Brooks' most recent (and possibly last) movie.

Introducing HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW

It's a new podcast from your friends at F This Movie!

Ferocious FREEWAY

by Robyn Buckley

"'Cause I'm pissed off, and the whole world owes me." – Vanessa Lutz

Staying Positive: Four Christmases

by Adam Thas

In the winter of 2008, I had a first date with a young lady. The movie she wanted to see was Four Christmases, and, being a first date, I agreed. I hated the movie. I hated just about every moment of Four Christmases. As it happens, myself and this girl didn’t have a second date and the evening ended up being kind of a bust. Trying to recoup a portion of that fateful night, I decided to break out the candy canes and peppermint to find some things to like in Four Christmases.

Review: Wild

by Patrick Bromley

Reese Witherspoon hikes! And acts. But mostly hikes.