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.
On How Invasion Of The Body Snatchers Had Its Real Ending Snatched
A true tale of extra-terrestrial abduction, in which a great movie was made slightly less great by forces of pure evil.
Black Sunday: Frankenheimer’s Long Bomb
Choosing something to watch off Netflix streaming isn’t as simple as winning one’s independence from the British. It takes time, concentration, and eyeballs—not just the whites, but the yolks as well.
The Fortune: Warren Beatty & Jack Nicholson In The Worst Thing Ever
If you’re going to watch a movie—and why wouldn’t you, movies are awesome, you love them, you’re here to read about them—I would suggest not, under any circumstances, watching The Fortune.
Mind Control Double Feature #79: Melodrama, damn you! Melodrama!
Shocks! Thrills! Murder! Adultery! Madness! Dare to enter this post if you will–but be warned–what you see within may never be unseen.
At Middleton Gets Graded Pass / Fail
It’s just as you dreamed: Andy Garcia all wet and glistening.
Top Ten Evil Alien Nuns Whose Heads Explode In Philomena
With so many to choose from, how, you ask, have I narrowed it down to ten? Science!
Duck, You Sucker & After The Fox: White Guys With Accents
In which famous Italian directors make what are not at all their most famous movies. Strange ’60s shenanigans result.
Why Anchorman Merits My Contempt
I say this realizing how many times you’ve seen it, and comprehending that you’ve memorized entire scenes, and understanding that you fully intend to name your firstborn son Champ.