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.
Category Archives: Active Observation
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?
Orgy of The Blood Parasites! On Slither, Shivers, and Night of The Creeps
In which deadly alien slug monsters take over the world.
We Need More Rip-Offs and Fewer Reboots and Remakes
Death to reboots and remakes! Let’s go back to ripping off classics and calling them our own.
Kung Fury: The Best Dollar You Didn’t Spend
Kung Fury is, in the end, something. And it is something you can watch in just half an hour. Might as well get it over with.
Skidoo To You Too
Otto Preminger’s “comedy” from 1968. Underground classic or brain-curdling turd?
Sleepless Night Slams You Against the Tarmac
If you’d like a compact pill of tension: Sleepless Night.
Montage of Heck & Heaven Adores You: In Which Musical Suicides Kurt Cobain and Elliott Smith Are Exhumed
One of these docs invites you in, the other one shoves you out.
Disney’s The Black Hole: Like Stupid But Stupider
If Disney’s 1979 “science fiction” movie, The Black Hole, were any stupider, it would collapse in on itself and the take the entire universe with it.
About Elly: Solving the Mystery of Yourself
A bitter ending is better than an endless bitterness.
Mad Max: Fury Road — Real Action Reaction
Cataclysmically, unrelentingly action packed, like a room full of toddlers hopped up on PCP and strapped to power saws, told that only the last of them standing gets the graham cracker
Mad Max: Fury Road Is Your Brain On Drugs
Your brain is on drugs, it’s on fire, and George Miller just drove a truck through it. Yay!
Let’s Give Rolling Thunder A Hand
The cult revenge flick is in fact a dark, brooding drama.
Mad Max, The Road Warrior, Beyond Thunderdome: Invention of The Post-Apocalyptic
Nobody does post-apocalyptic like George Miller. We take a took at the trilogy of 30 years past in preparation for Fury Road.