Mind Control Double Feature #34: Bon Voyeur-age
Do you know that feeling you get, when you’re peering in on a strange and mysterious culture of which you have little understanding, and then the police come and throw […]
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Full Metal Jacket: Death, Duality, and Donuts
I adore Full Metal Jacket even though it is, clearly, a difficult film to keep company with. The film is not Stanley Kubrick’s most cohesive effort or his most accessible. It is, […]
The Best of Netflix Streaming: Bottle Rocket
It seems this is the week to pick up old habits. That’s not a euphemism for cruising for elderly nuns—it means we’re revisiting long-languishing features here at Stand By For Mind Control. […]
Dennis Quaid At Any Price
You know what we haven’t done in a while? If you answered “bathe in the blood of innocent capybaras,” you’d be right, but sort of weird. That’s because what I’m […]
Mind Control Double Feature #32: A Good Yesterday to Die Hard
As the roof of Nakatomi Plaza explodes in a red fury, a man leaps off the edge. The fire hose he’s tied to arrests his plummet with a hard slam […]
Feel Lucky: The 10 Best Clint Eastwood Movies
Do you know what wakes me up nights in a cold sweat? It’s the ghastly thought that somewhere out there some poor soul hears the name “Clint Eastwood” and his/her […]
Berberian Sound Studio & the Ghost in the Machine
I would like you to listen closely. That’s what Berberian Sound Studio—a new mind-warping creeper helmed by Peter Strickland—asks you to do. This is a dissociative sort of picture. One in which what […]
So Wrong It’s Right: Quentin Dupieux’s Wrong
The protagonist of Quentin Dupieux’s last film was a tire. It was a hostage drama (in which you were the hostage) and I thought it was excellently weird. This time […]
Mind Control Double Feature #30: Typecast
Today is Valentine’s Day and what could be more romantic than being pigeonholed? Now that I’ve written that sentence, I feel the need to clarify: ‘being pigeonholed’ isn’t, to my […]
The First Third of the Legend of Kaspar Hauser
I walked out of a film last night. The last time I did that was 1994. According to festival reviewers (SF Indie Fest and others), The Legend of Kaspar Hauser combines the […]
John Dies at the End and That’s Just the Beginning
Right now there is a completely avoidable tragedy afflicting untold millions of Americans. They do not have the chance to see Don Coscarelli’s John Dies at the End in a proper […]
Animal House: The Good, The Bad, and the Otter
Do you know who is really funny? John Landis, that’s who. I was lucky enough to watch Animal House—Landis’ first studio film—last night with the man himself in attendance. (Thank […]
Whatever’s On: In Like Flint
Today, my friends, was a rough day. The Hound of Evil hurt her foot and so I had to take her to the vet. The vet installed her with a […]
Mind Control Double Feature #28: Get Out Of the House!
I know; it’s easy to get trapped on the couch. You’ve got your blanky, and the dog curled up beside you, and your giant television playing a non-stop A-Team marathon. In […]