Smiley Face
December 30th, 2007
Gregg Araki’s stoned follow-up to Mysterious Skin, playing now at the IFC Center and out on DVD in January, deserves a proper review on About.com. For now, a few screenshots to prove that Anna Faris’s fearless performance owns this movie the way Luisa Williams owned Day Night Day Night — only funnier. One girl’s buzzed screwball odyssey through L.A., Smiley Face had me laughing hard for the entire duration… until the most unforgivable ending since Yella ruins it all.
Smiley Face. Gregg Araki, 2007. ***
The trailer:
Weeds
April 3rd, 2006
We’re halfway through the first season of the Showtime series with Mary Louise Parker as suburban widow and mother of two who makes do by selling pot. It’s funny but I wouldn’t call it a comedy series–it’s a soap/drama, and it pushes TV a little bit further out there in terms of drug jokes, sex jokes, and kids-who-make-terrorist-videos jokes. We like.
