In contrast to Roger Corman's 1967 freakout, ''The Trip,'' no hallucinogens are harmed in the Michael Winterbottom comedy of the same title, a British road movie laced with lacerating laughs and starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. Mr. Coogan does, in fact, smoke a joint, lighting up in the same house where Coleridge wrote ''Dejection: An Ode''...
''Around here, if you're not a man and a gentleman, you're nothing,'' says Lou Ford, the protagonist of ''The Killer Inside Me.'' A murderous sociopath, cowardly and cold and particularly brutal toward women, Lou is in effect introducing the tale of his own self-annihilation. On the surface a polite, upstanding fellow -- a sheriff's deputy with...
STEPHEN KING once said of the novelist Jim Thompson: ''He was crazy. He went running into the American subconscious with a blowtorch in one hand and a pistol in the other, screaming his goddamn head off. No one else came close.'' The same qualities that made his books so arresting -- Thompson's wildness and originality and dark, violent sexiness --...