Chappie: Part Weird, Part Crappy
Neill Blomkamp’s third movie, Chappie, is more enjoyable than his second, Elysium, but so is being poked in the eye with a sharp stick.
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A Wolf At The Door, or: Why Not To Have An Affair If You’re Brazilian
An affair goes dark in this slow burning thriller from Brazil.
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T., In Which Dr. Seuss’s Brain Blows Up
A classic of weird from 1953. Grab your blue beanie and check it out with me
Vampire Children: On Dracula’s Daughter & Son of Dracula
Exhuming two sequels of old to find they do make sequels like they used to: badly.
Joe Dante’s Piranha Bites. In A Good Way.
In which I watch, for the first time ever, this most beloved Jaws rip-off.
A Poem Is A Naked Person: In Which Les Blank Wanders Around With Leon Russell
A painterly documentary about Leon Russell finally sees the light of day.
Reality: In Which Quentin Dupieux Makes Another Quentin Dupieux Movie
You know what you’re getting even though you don’t know what you’re getting.
Finding Tatanka: A Filmmaker Searches For His Father
A new documentary by friend of Mind Control, Jacob Bricca.
Wrong Cops: Wrong, If Not As Wrong As Wrong
Quentin Dupieux’s most normal movie?
Inside Out: Pixar Gets Its Mojo Working
Pixar’s best movie in years is both impressively weird and likely to leave you in tears.
Love & Mercy & The Wrecking Crew
A bio-pic on Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys, and a doc on the musicians who made The Beach Boys–and almost every other band in the ’60s–sound so great.
Virunga: A Depressing Tale of Guns and Gorillas
Who needs gorillas when there’s oil to be drilled for and minerals to be dug up?
Jurassic World vs. Jurassic Park
I don’t want to give anything away here, but, um, yeah. This is not a contest. Prepare for the worst.
A Detective Or A Pervert? The Top 10 David Lynch Movies
Let us now talk of all things Lynch.