John Wick Chapter 2: More Bullets, More Faces
John Wick returns to ask if, at long last, you would please be so kind as to hold on to these bullets with your face.
Category Archives: Active Observation
I Am Not Your Negro
Today, even though it doesn’t seem like it, there is hope.
The Salesman Cannot Come to Your Door
This is Farhadi’s special genius. He invites you into lives unfamiliar only to spin around the mirror in the last moments so you can see your own surprised face.
Scorsese’s Silence Suffers
Come inside and share my doubt.
Paterson: The Drama of The Undramatic
Jim Jarmusch has another poem to read you.
If Only La La Land
Know both the electric excitement of what might have been and the solemn beauty of what is.
Christmas Evil: Best Christmas Movie Ever
In which we discover, much too late in life, that the best Christmas movie ever made has been hiding in plain sight, waiting to be found and adored.
Mad Max: Fury Road – Black and Chrome Edition: Like The Seven Samurai, But In The Desert, And With Gasoline And Explosions
This whole “color movies” thing is just a fad anyhow.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Short On Story
In which Disney’s latest re-tooled Star Wars toy arrives already opened, bent, and missing pieces.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, The Story of Star Wars Itself
Stars. Wars. Etc.
The Woman Chaser: The Best Movie You’ve Never Seen
But you will see it. Because I insist that you do.
Horrors of Malformed Men, Or: Why Not To Emulate Dr. Moreau
Making hideous human/animal mutants on your own private island, what could go wrong?
Elle: If Verhoevenesque Is A Word, This Movie Is It
Paul Verhoeven is back, and while he may not be pole-dancing or blowing up bugs, he ain’t messing around.
Arrival Breaks Your Heart for Good
Not in the ‘for eternity’ sense, but in the ‘for the best’ sense