Mind Control Double Feature #83: They’re Coming To Get You
In which we travel to 1970s San Francisco and experience a profound and inescapable paranoia.
Mind Control Double Feature #Bonus: Make it a Double Feature
In case you hadn’t noticed its appearance in our blogroll, the excellent Make it a Double… Feature is a blog D. writes that collects double feature ideas that are as excellent as […]
Revenge of The Nerds: The Uplifting ‘80s Antidote To Animal House
In which we look more deeply into Revenge of The Nerds than one would think advisable.
True Detective is (Cardiac) Arresting
I totally understand. If you told me that there was yet another television show about some madhouse serial killer and the resolute and colorful detectives who track him down—and that […]
Mind Control Double Feature #82: Paranoid Android
It is very difficult to determine with absolute certainty whether or not you are part machine.
A Field In England: Circular 17th Century Psychedelia
Somewhere in England, during the English Civil War, on the far side of a hedgerow, in a field, three soldiers and an alchemist’s assistant leave the battle in search of an alehouse.
The Congress: Robin In Wacky-Land
Tell me there’s a new independent movie that’s half live-action, half animation, abrim with social commentary, and based on a story by funny/brilliant Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem, and I am going to see that movie
The Lego Movie: Like a Ton of Bricks
From the headlines it seems that The Lego Movie is going over like a ton of bricks. Assuming that you love bricks, which you probably do if you’re curious about The Lego Movie.
Mind Control Double Feature #81: Burning The Midnight Oil
Of desperate men and burning landscapes, imagined and real.
Inside Llewyn Davis Is a Lament: Understanding the Film
A good portion of audiences and critics left the Coen Brothers’ latest, Inside Llewyn Davis, feeling cold—and not just because of the brooding cinematography and icy landscapes. Beautiful, they called it, […]
Time To Get Excited About Jodorowsky’s Dune
Coming soon, a documentary about the Dune that never was, the Dune that was to be the most important picture in the history of humanity.
Best of Bay Area Film – February 2014
Everyone’s running and screaming about this month’s movie guide. Join them. See these movies and become one with the universe. We guarantee it.
Frozen: My Soul On Ice
Hollywood lusts after my children. This is both creepy and true. Script gnomes have spent countless hours crafting narratives designed to bring them back to the multiplex. From the mines […]
Mind Control Double Feature #80: Easy Money
NEVER NEVER NEVER keep a mysterious satchel of cash that inexplicably falls into your lap.