Birdman Does An Awful Lot of Flapping
In which I am underwhelmed by the latest from director Alejandro Iñárritu.
John Wick Would Like You to Hold His Bullets with Your Face
If John Wick is trying to teach his enemies a lesson, here is what it is: your face is not a secure receptacle for bullets.
Listen Up Philip Is Successfully Insufferable
And I quote: “Alex Ross Perry has injected a particular strain of vitality into the New York independent film scene, having made two idiosyncratic features that beat to a relentlessly personal rhythm that is almost shocking in its distinctness.”
A Bucket of Blood: Roger Corman’s Beatnik Murder Comedy
Given $50,000, leftover sets from a high school movie, and five days to shoot by American International Pictures, could Roger Corman direct a horror movie?
Out of Print: The New Beverly Documentary And The Marchese / Tarantino Kerfuffle
On the new documentary about the New Beverly Cinema, and the drama surrounding its director.
Citizenfour: Edward Snowden, as It Happens
When Laura Poitras, after receiving encrypted emails from Snowden, came to meet him in Hong Kong with her camera, she did us all an immense favor.
Fury: Tanks for Nothing
Prepare to get furious for all the wrong reasons.
Stretch Will Not Deliver You Into ’80s Throwback Bliss
Yearning for the days of madcap, meaningless comedies from your misspent youth? So is director Joe Carnahan.
Ralph Steadman + Breaking Bad
What else needs to be said?
I’m Spartacus And So’s My Wife!
In which the movie Kubrick disowned is considered in all its Hollywood CinemaScope epic glory.
Christopher Columbus – The Discovery: A Fascinating Shipwreck Nobody Wanted To See
These filmsmade an unfortunate discovery of their own. Audiences did not want to see one Columbus movie, let alone two.
Whiplash: Interview with Writer / Director Damien Chazelle
Find out what frightens the writer/director of my new favorite torture porn love story, Whiplash.
Nick Cave: 20,000 Days On Earth In 5,700 Seconds
A weird and compelling documentary that isn’t a documentary about a weird and compelling man.
Mind Control Double Feature #102: The Limits of Endurance
In which competitive dancing and truck-touching are given the attention they deserve.