Breaking Bad Revisited: Season 1, Episodes 4 & 5
“I’m thinking Albuquerque might just have a new kingpin.”
Behind the Candelabra’s Poison Kisses
Do you want to see something sparkly and wonderful, like the magical poop of unicorns? Well then let me introduce you to Liberace. Slowly. Recently, I broke down and ordered […]
This Is The End, And The Pointlessness of Reviewing Average Movies
There’s nothing exceptionally bad about This Is The End. There’s nothing exceptionally good about it either. It’s got just enough laughs to offset its thinly thought-out story, so when it […]
Mind Control Double Feature #47: Death of The Dream, American Style
If there’s one thing we’ve got here in the good ol’ U.S. of A., it’s roads. Roads and freedom, the two things we’ve got in America. Or at least the […]
The Best Movie You’ve Ever Seen Sucks
So you went to see Giant Soul-Sucking Blockbuster Part XI and — if we are to believe what you’ve written on the internet without vowels — it is the best […]
Breaking Bad Revisited: Season 1, Episodes 1-3
The southwest American desert. A blue sky. A pair of pants, fluttering to earth. So begins Breaking Bad’s pilot episode, and what an episode. Just shy of an hour, and it lays out a roadmap for everything that follows.
E.T. Gives You the Magic Finger
Far be it from me to take issue with the Supreme Being, but after reading his otherwise infallible dissection of the stunningly overrated career of Señor Spielbergo, I must take umbrage […]
The 10 Best Steven Spielberg Movies? Is Such A List Even Possible?
Steven Spielberg is a peculiar figure in the history of movie directors. He started out as a well-reviewed wunderkind, was then castigated by critics for years as an unserious director […]
Mind Control Double Feature #46: School’s Out Forever?
Alright get off the bus
You’re wild man, wild
What’re you saying? You’re stupid
You should sleep late man
It is much easier on your constitution
Before Sunrise, Sunset, & Midnight
I like these movies much more than I thought I did. They’re about time, and time is interesting. It does things to people. We can’t help but make choices as […]
A Decidedly Ungenerous Review of Now You See Me
From the marketing, I had expected Now You See Me to be a thrilling tale about stage magicians who rob banks as some sort of master scheme to make Jesse Eisenberg […]
Mind Control Double Feature #45: Eviscerating The ’80s
If you had the pleasure, or lack thereof, of growing up in the ‘80s, or otherwise living through it in any conscious way, you might have noticed the greed, the […]
Keep Calm and Carrie On
Let’s play a game. I’ll give you the name of a film, and whether or not you’ve seen it, or read the book it’s based on, or sat through the […]
Four Movies To Look Forward To This Summer
There are times, usually every summer movie season, right about now, when one begins to lose hope for the future of film, when one’s brain begins to feel as if […]