Mind Control Double Feature #33: Samurai Hit Men
If you’ve seen a lot of movies, and you have, you know all about being a hit man. All the tension, the stress, the long hours. It’s a tough job. […]
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Let’s Remake Blade Runner And Cuckoo’s Nest
The most alarming thing a filmmaker can say when turning a novel into a movie is, “We’re being true to the book.” This is a terrible thing to do. What […]
Searching For Sugar Man: How To Judge Documentaries?
I finally saw the documentary Searching For Sugar Man, the hit from Sundance ’12 that just took home an Oscar last week. I liked it, and I can see why […]
Upstream Color Will Crawl Inside You And Take Over Your Brain
It’s been a long time, too long, since my brain has been as weirdly and intensely affected by a new movie as it was last night at a screening of […]
Live-Blogging Ye Olde Oscars
9:00 – Like a corpse dragged from one grave to another because of the condos going up in what was once a convenient swamp, so too is this show dragged […]
Argo Is The Worst Movie of 2012
The worst movie, you say? Argo? The one poised to take home a Best Picture Oscar in two days, which you found to be a wholly inoffensive, exciting little diversion? […]
Mind Control Double Feature #31: How Not To Make A Movie
The best way to learn how not to make a movie is, nine times out of ten, to watch a movie. Lessons will be readily evident. For as many great […]
Donnie Darko Unexplained
There exists no better medium for approximating dreams than film. Dreams and movies work in images to tell a story or impart a feeling or remind your brain of something […]
Sightseers: The English Countryside, Romance, A Few Murders, And The World’s Biggest Pencil
Sightseers is the pleasant tale of a couple, Tina and Chris (Alice Lowe and Steve Oram, also the movie’s writers), who embark on a weeklong, romantic roadtrip across the English […]
Pootie Tang: Worst Movie Ever, Or Stealth Work Of Genius?
Pootie Tang (’01), written and directed by then mostly unknown and now hugely beloved and respected Louis C.K., was widely ignored and/or despised when it came out. Here’s a sampling […]
Mind Control Double Feature #29: Post-Apocalyptic Tragedy And Comedy
The future. We’re all going to be living in it any moment now. And we know exactly what to expect of it. No, not hover cars, teleportation, sleek rocketships, Moon […]
A New Monty Python (Sort Of) Movie On The Horizon
News of hope for the future: there’s a new Monty Pythonesque movie in the works, or so says Variety. With a script by Terry Jones that he’s been kicking around […]
The Best 3-D Movie You Haven’t Seen
I am not at all fond of 3-D movies. They don’t look more “real” to me. They don’t make me feel like I’m more immersed in the action. They tire […]
Shallow Thoughts On The Top Grossing Movies of 2012
January is Hollywood’s morgue. They wheel in the corpses of movies they wish they’d never made, bloated and bleeding, limbs missing, faces unrecognizable, and hope nobody notices the stink. […]