A Brief Stab at Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th is as gelatinous as baby poop and marginally less endearing.
Category Archives: Active Observation
It Follows: The End Is The Beginning
A new indie coming of age film you would be unwise to dismiss as merely about sex and teenagers and monsters.
An Honest Liar: Feats of The Amazing Randi
An entertaining new documentary on the king of the debunkers.
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.
’71 — The Stunning Strain of Simple Survival
In the film ’71, as in reality, the intricacies of politics, the recognition of our neighbors’ equality in fear and fury — things such as these play soft second fiddle to keeping the blood flowing to our brains.
On The Jinx, Robert Durst, And Whether He “Killed Them All”
Did the HBO documentary catch a killer?
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.
Mind-Control Double Feature #105: Auto-Erotic Asphyxiation
In which David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars and Sion Sono’s Why Don’t You Play in Hell? compete to see which can get cinema drunk on its own death faster.
Chris Pratt Should NOT Play Indiana Jones… he Should Play Forrestal
Keep the fan boys happy, get Chris Pratt a fourth franchise to carry and provide some retroactive enjoyment to Raiders instead of taking a Phantom Menace like dump on it.
There Is Only One Catch, and That’s Catch-22
I suppose you’d have to be crazy to like Catch-22, but then if you’re crazy, who cares what you think? I guess that’s the catch.
The Imitation Game and The Theory of Everything… Successful and Forgettable Oscar Bait
Thoughts on two winners you’ll have forgotten won by the time you’re done reading this.
Leviathan: Too Big to Fail
In Leviathan, we are either killed by innocence or corruption. The choice is yours.