The Jungle Book: O RLY?
We are man-cubs and we are dangerous.
Category Archives: Active Observation
The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane Is Inexplicably Odd
Don’t mess with the kid.
High Rise: All the Enemies Amenities
High Rise was not made to entertain you grungy, popcorn feasting masses.
Invention For Destruction, or: Karel Zeman – The Original Steampunk
A crazy semi-animated Czech film full of pirates and submarines and giant squids. Need I say more?
Midnight Special: Different Only The Same
So there’s this alien, see? And he wants to go home…
Miles Ahead, In Which Don Cheadle Channels A Genius
A strange, wild ride of a biography that isn’t a biography.
Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, Two Wild And Crazy Guys
From 1931, one of the most insane horror movies you will ever see.
Cartel Land: Here There Be Monsters
For when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.
Drowning By Numbers: Peter Greenaway’s Numerology of Death
In which we enter the decaying whimsy of Peter Greenaway’s England.
Snyder v World – A Spoiler Free Review
Zack Snyder takes on the world. The world loses.
Batman v Superman: An Un-Review
A spoiler-free pre-review! Or a spoiler-filled list of assumptions? Either way. Yep. Take heart. It’s always darkest before the Dawn of Justice.
Creative Control: Style Over Substance
A beautifully empty future (and movie).
Hard To Be A God, Especially When You’re Covered In Muck
Russian sci-fi by way of the middle ages. Enter at your own risk.
An Ode to the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
Rend your rictus with screams of inchoate rage and explode my face with eldritch fire. I love you Stay Puft.