Lewis Films: A Guide to the Grunge of Cinema Culture

A friend of mine who at one point of his life worked in a movie-rental store had told me that they had a staff pick selection in the store. In there they had a selection of films that were dubbed “Lewis’ Picks”. The man never existed or ever worked in the establishment but was a running joke of the staff because Lewis was a character they had created who had a very specific taste in films. We have all met many Lewis’s in our lives, they are not ciniphiles, they do not watch foreign film but though they do sometimes venture into independent films if the genre is correct. Generally a Lewis only watches films that...