Mind Control Double Feature #39: Your New Insect Overlords
Back when I was knee-high to a grasshopper, my great-grandpappy sat me on his lap and said, “Boy, there’s a time gone come in life, when you just plain ain’t […]
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Touch of Evil: It Was Some Kind of A Movie
Touch of Evil is Orson Welles’s best movie. Which is a scandalous thing to say in the movie world. Maybe not scandalous. How about sacriligeous? Citizen Kane is, after all, […]
On Koyaanisqatsi, Beauty, And Ambiguity
Images from Godfrey Reggio’s 1983 film Koyaanisqatsi are etched into my brain. Nighttime cityscapes at high speed, their streets like veins carrying electrons. Rivers of fog roiling over mountains. A […]
Soderbergh’s Behind The Candelabra Looks Kind Of Marvelous
Watching this trailer it’s awfully sad to think Steven Soderbergh won’t be directing any more movies. Matt Damon and Michael Douglas will be starring in more of them, but will […]
Interview With Andrew Sensenig, The Mysterious Sampler In Upstream Color
Upstream Color is the new movie by the writer/director Shane Carruth, whose last, and first, movie, Primer, came out back in ’04. Primer is an odd, unique movie about time […]
Mind Control Double Feature #37: Faux Heroes Save The Day
Here at the bustling Stand By For Mind Control laboratories we often like our movies intense, weird, dark, slow, depressing, and liable to leave permanent psychological scars. We like movies […]
Exegesis Of A Genius: The Charlie Sheen Cinematic Oeuvre
(Following is an excerpt from Dr. Herman O. Gorvald’s upcoming work, Infinite Sheen And The Recursiveness of Being, which he has generously allowed us to publish, exclusively, for the delight […]
Spring Breakers Broke My Brain
The more I think about it, the weirder Spring Breakers becomes. It is in no way a normal kind of movie. It is a Harmony Korine movie, and Harmony Korine […]
Mind Control Double Feature #35: Those Troublesome Irish Troubles
The trouble with Irish independence is the same trouble with independence sought by any peoples throughout history: you spend ten, twenty, a hundred, five hundred years murdering your oppressors, the […]
Moon Movies
The moon. What is it doing up there? Where did it come from? Who lives inside it? How did they get there? Why aren’t we digging inside it this very […]
Death By Backstory Part 2: Snake Plissken Edition
It is our present fate that every movie we once loved will soon be remade into something bland, unimaginative, and, in a tiny way we wouldn’t even notice save for […]
Twilight’s Last Gleaming: Exactly As Good As It Sounds
One thing I love about old movies is the window they open on the past. It doesn’t matter when they’re set, be they westerns, science fiction, or contemporary. It doesn’t […]
A Lost Oz
Oz the Bland and Predictable. Oz The Dull and Pitiable. Oz The Safe and Marketable. Oz The…zzzzzzzzzzz. Could you make a movie worse than Sam Raimi’s Oz The Great and […]
You Are Excused From Seeing Cosmopolis
I was in love with David Cronenberg movies before I ever saw one. I must have been about 12 when I heard about a movie called Scanners (’80) in which […]