An Honest Liar: Feats of The Amazing Randi
An entertaining new documentary on the king of the debunkers.
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Long Weekend, Frogs, and Other Vengeful Tales of Nature
When nature takes revenge against we pesky humans, it ain’t pretty. It is rather froggy, though.
On The Jinx, Robert Durst, And Whether He “Killed Them All”
Did the HBO documentary catch a killer?
Magician: The Astonishing Life & Work of Orson Welles, Or: Gosh, But Documentaries Sure Have Long Names These Days
It’s almost like they think we won’t see a documentary unless the title contains every single thing that happens in it. Meanwhile, this one’s about Orson Welles, and it’s rather enjoyable.
Little Shop of Horrors: The Original Plant-Rampaging Ending
The director’s cut of Little Shop of Horrors is horrific indeed. In a good way. Everybody dies! Yay!
Salesman: The Maysles Brothers Go For Bleak
The classic doc about the plight of the American door-to-door salesman.
God Told Me To Watch God Told Me To And To Tell You All About It
At least god didn’t tell me to go on a killing spree, like he tells everyone in this movie. Mass murder, hippie-Jesus, alien abduction–God Told Me To has got it all.
The Salvation: A Danish Western Yearns For That Old Timey Eastwood Revenge Vibe
Who knew Danes could be so gosh-danged murderous?
Klaus Kinski Is Insane
In which I plunge into the obscene depths of the most outrageous autobiography ever written.
Queen And Country: A Sequel By John Boorman That Isn’t Zardoz 2
A bit of fond remembrance from director John Boorman that does not include a flying stone head.
Why Was I Not Told of Dagon?
Stuart Gordon’s other H.P. Lovecraft adaptation seems to have snuck in under my radar…14 years ago.
Scientifically Infallible Oscar Predictions 2015
Allow us to win your Oscar pool for you.
John Carter Vs. A Princess Of Mars
In which I suffer the slings and arrows of John Carter, Disney’s ludicrous adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s A Princess of Mars, for your amusement and edification.
What We Do In The Shadows, or: Flight of The Kiwi Vampires
Two thirds of the Flight of The Conchords fellas team up with some other funny New Zealanders, drink the blood of innocents, crack jokes. You will like it.