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?
Magician: The Astonishing Life & Work of Orson Welles, Or: Gosh, But Documentaries Sure Have Long Names These Days
It’s almost like they think we won’t see a documentary unless the title contains every single thing that happens in it. Meanwhile, this one’s about Orson Welles, and it’s rather enjoyable.
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.
The Salvation: A Danish Western Yearns For That Old Timey Eastwood Revenge Vibe
Who knew Danes could be so gosh-danged murderous?
Klaus Kinski Is Insane
In which I plunge into the obscene depths of the most outrageous autobiography ever written.
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.
Queen And Country: A Sequel By John Boorman That Isn’t Zardoz 2
A bit of fond remembrance from director John Boorman that does not include a flying stone head.
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.
Why Was I Not Told of Dagon?
Stuart Gordon’s other H.P. Lovecraft adaptation seems to have snuck in under my radar…14 years ago.