Brew Views Joel Silberg’s Breakin’ has a plot—something about a struggling young jazz dancer trying to find her place in the lonely world—but the 1984 masterpiece actually uses breakdanci ...   More

Brew Views It’s MusicfestNW week. You will, at some point, be hung over. May I offer a suggestion? Relieve your headache with Wet Hot American Summer, one of the most reinvigorating comedies of the past d ...   More

Brew Views The most interesting tidbit in Vanity Fair’s postmortem profile of John Hughes this February was that he based Ferris Bueller’s Day Off on his high-school memories…of himself. No, h ...   More

Brew Views Heavy-metal satire is not a genre that seems to demand a second entry after This Is Spinal Tap, but no matter: Here is Born Again Sage, a black mass of jokes about men who live for “drawing pic ...   More

Brew Views “You think I’m crazy?!? I’ll show you crazy!!!” Mel Gibson yells. And then—instead of slandering Jews or calling his wife a “gold digger cunt whore”—he ...   More

Brew Views Babies, man. Whoah. They’re little people, man. Did you ever think about that? How, like, once you were a little baby—just kind of crying and, like, doing baby shit…and now you&rsqu ...   More

Brew Views While Jaws remains fresh enough to be the catch of the day, Steven Spielberg’s creature feature Jurassic Parklooks like a time capsule (and the second-best Michael Crichton theme-park horror, be ...   More

Brew Views About halfway through The Secret in Their Eyes comes a marvelously strange little scene. A crime investigator (Ricardo Darín) is having no luck interrogating a rape-and-murder suspect (Javier G ...   More

Brew Views If it is difficult to imagine Carrie being made today—and I shudder to think of Brian De Palma making Carrie today—it is in part because the popular cinema has become both more knowing and ...   More

Brew Views How does Robert Redford cope so well with the lunch-break massacre of his CIA officemates and his own fugitive flight in Three Days of the Condor? “I read a lot of books,” he explains. Ind ...   More