Actor: Ricki Lake

Cecil B. DeMented (2000)

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I watched Cecil B. Demented once around the time that it came out, and have since thought of it as my least favorite John Waters movie. The part of the film that stuck with was Cecil’s crew introducing themselves one by one to the big Hollywood star they have kidnapped to be in their underground [...]


Serial Mom (1994)

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I re-watch my favorite John Waters movies such as a Desperate Living and Female Trouble on a fairly regular basis (not every day or anything like that), but Serial Mom is one that I hadn’t seen since it first came out. Seeing it again reminded me that it is basically covers the same basic themes [...]


Cry Baby (1990)

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For my last John Waters film for this year and probably the last for a while, I watched Cry Baby. This was Waters only film made with a big Hollywood studio, and it shows. The anarchy of his early films such as Pink Flamingos has dried up, and the twisted comedy of Serial Mom is [...]


Random Quote

“Welcome to Hollywood, a land just off the coast of planet Earth.”
-Elinor Glyn (Joanna Lumley)
from The Cat’s Meow