Mind Control Double Feature #62: Fatal Mistakes
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What I Learned In The Blackboard Jungle
You think teenagers are trouble today, you should have seen them in 1955, back when they were invented.
Breaking Bad Recap: Season 5, Episode 15 – Granite State
After last week’s 47 minutes of pure insanity, it was a given that “Granite State,” the penultimate episode of Breaking Bad, would settle down to the normal level of heart-attack inducing tension we expect on a week to week basis.
Short Term 12 Cleans Out Your Mind Holes
I lost track of how many times I cried watching Destin Daniel Cretton’s Short Term 12. I’d heard good things—it won both the Grand Jury Narrative Feature Award and the Narrative Audience […]
Mind Control Double Feature #61: The Big Con
I’m the Supreme Being, not a historian, and am therefore unqualified to say why there is no figure more revered in the annals of United States history than the con […]
The Fairly Great Escape
Last night’s viewing: The Great Escape. John Sturges’ three-hour adventure film is a fondly-recalled boyhood favorite and true story of Nazi-needling bravura. Like Sturges’ other earlier blockbuster, The Magnificent Seven, this is a […]
Cronenberg’s Scanners Will Blow Up Your Head
Scanners (’81) is a very strange movie. It’s renowned for a scene—originally supposed to open the film—wherein Michael Ironside, as the evil scanner Darryl Revok, sits on a panel before […]
Ringu Round the Rosie
Have you seen The Ring (Ringu)? If so, then you shall surely die in a week, unless you force someone else to suffer through this bizarre series of disquieting images […]
Our Nixon: Fun With Super-8
Nixon and Watergate. Best political scandal ever? It’s the gift that keeps on giving, to the point where every scandal since has had “gate” stuck on the end of it, […]
Breaking Bad Recap: Season 5, Episode 14 – Ozymandias
Now that I’m no longer curled up in a ball in the corner, weeping and clutching my teddy bear, maybe I can write something about “Ozymandias,” this week’s aptly named […]
In Which We Deface RoboCop with FrameBuzz Graffiti
Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop is a nasty film. This is why we love it. It’s full of pain and obscenity and oozing corruption. It’s the sort of story wherein the hero is […]
Mind Control Double Feature #60: Man Kinds
There are two kind of men in Western films. There are those with ropes around their necks and those that do the shooting. Or maybe there are men in black […]
2013: Hollywood’s Summer of Flops?
The summer movie season was littered with bombs, flops, and misfires. More mega-budget movies were released than in any previous summer season, thus over-crowding the marketplace, resulting in dud after […]
Onibaba Overtakes You
You know what can be really frightening? No. Don’t guess. It’s a trick question. That’s because once you know the answer, it’s no longer frightening; it’s just your face in […]