Put The Bunny Back In The Box: The 10 Best Nicolas Cage Films
I’m not going to say that Nicolas Cage is the best actor of his generation. I am going to say he’s the strangest. Nicolas Cage is his own genre. Nic Cage is a nouveau shaman.
What Not to Watch: A Good Day to Die Hard
A Good Day to Die Hard is as terrible as a family of spiders taking up residence in your mouth.
The Wind Rises, And Miyazaki Drifts Away
Hayao Miyazaki’s final film (so he says), The Wind Rises, is a fitting close to his career. It feels ephemeral. It blows by soft as a summer breeze. It’s the […]
Mind Control Double Feature #85: The Flim-Flammery of The Delightfully Rich
Back in the Depression, nothing was more delightful than watching impossibly rich ne’er-do-wells robbing even richer ones only to fall madly in love with one another and sail away into diamond encrusted sunsets.
The Rocket: Fusion and Fallout in Laos
Picture a slice of chocolate cake sprinkled with crushed peanuts, chili flakes, bean sprouts, whole shrimp, and a nice glaze made from nam pla.
Visitors: Godfrey Reggio And Philip Glass Have Returned To Trip You Out
Godfrey Reggio’s latest film (documentary?) (experiment?), Visitors, is something of a continuation of his Qatsi trilogy, but not so much that it earns a Hopi title. It is the Qatsiless Qatsi.
The 86th Academy Awards Have Come for Your Soul
Please join us as we live-blog the pageantry and horror of this year’s Oscar ceremony.
Best of Bay Area Film — March 2014
‘When, oh when’ they will sob in their luncheon-meat cocoons, ‘will I ever release a film that anyone in their right mind would want to see?’
Guaranteed Winning Oscar Picks, 2014 Edition
The Academy Awards, AKA Hollywood’s Meat Parade, are coming to a television near you this Sunday evening, and you know what that means: you’re going to lose the office Oscar pool yet again.
Mind Control Double Feature #84: In the Mood
Hey there sweet thing. Let me light some candles. Put a little Marvin Gaye on the hi-fi. Fill up our pockets with cereal. Let me do whatever I can to get you in the mood.
Harold Ramis: He Was The Ball
I was a lucky child. Where I grew up, in Palo Alto, we had The New Varsity Theater, a rep movie house that showed double and triple bills covering the […]
Big Sky Film Festival Wrap-Up: Two Docs You Need To See
In the book Introduction To Documentary, author Bill Nichols makes a bold statement: all movies are documentaries. From here he cleaves the mass into two big categories: documentaries of wish […]
Cutting Humor: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre on First Viewing
There is nothing quite so funny as an uncoordinated fat man wearing a Mrs. Howell mask chasing a screaming blonde around the yard while he’s wielding a raised chainsaw.
Fighting The Rumble Fish
You want to talk odd kettles of fish, colorful Siamese fighting fish, even, you should take a look at Rumble Fish.