Your Noir City 15 Cheat Sheet
In this, its 15th iteration, Noir City shifts from showing obscure and long-lost noirs in order to focus on all sorts of heist films — many of them more modern but no less obscure.
I See Movies, 2016 Edition
Lovers of lists, rejoice! Once again, I list every movie I saw this year, all the while secretly wondering just what it is I think I’m doing with my life.
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.
Consider The Blade Runner 2049 Trailer
What do we think of this?
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, The Story of Star Wars Itself
Stars. Wars. Etc.
The Brand New Testament, In Which God Is A Miserable Fat Belgian Bastard
At last, the truth about the Supreme Being is revealed.
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?
‘80s Oddities: The Pit & Paperhouse
In which we explore two lesser known lights from days of yore.
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