Old-Timey Sci-Fi Craziness: H.G. Wells’ Things To Come
So much time, so few movies. Wait. Reverse that. Watching H.G. Wells’ Things To Come for the first time, I wondered how I’d gone so long without seeing it. It’s […]
Breaking Bad Recap: Season 5, Episode 10 – Buried
“Am I under arrest?”
The Act of Killing is Easy
Killing is not a difficult act to accomplish. There are countless ways to get the job done. Be they bloody or tidy, quick or prolonged, sadistic or unfeeling—most murders are […]
Coming Soon: A Remake of Unforgiven
It’s a hell of a thing, remaking a famous movie.
Mind Control Double Feature #56: Outside the Box
Thinking outside the box isn’t that hard to do. You just scratch a small hole in the box, poke your thinking appendage through, and think away. No big deal. I […]
5 Fun Facts About Elysium
In a fabricated future world like Elysium‘s, making up facts and defending their veracity without a drop of supporting data is perfectly acceptable. That’s a fact. It’s also a fact that […]
Breaking Bad Recap: Season 5, Episode 9 – Blood Money
“If you don’t know who I am, maybe your best course of action is to tread lightly.”
Worst Double Feature Ever: The Canyons And Elysium
With my brain addled and befuzzed by a vague illness on Friday, I allowed myself to see, within a few scant hours of one another, the newly released movies Elysium […]
Breaking Bad Revisited: Season 5, Episodes 7 & 8
“Let me die in peace.”
Supercalifragilisticexpialidociously Strange: Watching Mary Poppins as an Adult
I never saw Mary Poppins as a kid. Yep, this Oscar-winning, smash-hit, family favorite completely passed me by. So, with Disney’s Saving Mr. Banks due in December — a film about the […]
Mind Control Double Feature #55: Rivers Into Madness
Nothing’s more primal than a river in a jungle. Jungles are ancient and thick with life. We came from the jungle. To return to it is to return to our collective past. We’re taking the river deep inside ourselves today, and we’re going to go mad doing it.
Breaking Bad Revisited: Season 5, Episodes 4-6
“I’m in the empire business.”
The World’s End is the Wright Stuff
After seeing The World’s End — the final installment in Edgar Wright’s Three Flavours: Cornetto trilogy — and mulling it over for a healthy chunk of time, there are two things I […]
My Allergic Reaction To Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine
Woody Allen has finally become his own parody. His characters could exist nowhere but in the movies. His idea of San Francisco is laughable.