The Towering Inferno And Other Past Disasters
It’s Memorial Day Weekend, folks, and movie-wise you know what that means: nothing but the biggest, loudest, most astrogivastantical epics ever conceived of by humankind will be on display at […]
Mind Control Double Feature #44: Kidnapped by Idiots
You know what almost never goes wrong? A good, old-fashioned kidnapping. Particularly in the movies. Yep. If I were a character in a movie — and I might be based […]
On Magic, Logic, Brains, And The Hollywood Spectacular
Taking a break last night from another typically explodey summer of billion dollar Hollywood spectaculars (that’s what the kids are calling movies today, right? “Spectaculars”? I try to keep up […]
Soderbergh Swag Sale
Oh jeez. Steven Soderbergh is selling off a bunch of stuff from his films, and art, and some weird moscatel-based booze, and t-shirts. Basically, I want one of everything because […]
A Field In England: Watch This Trailer Immediately
Ben Wheatley has made three movies prior to this one, Down Terrace, which I haven’t seen, Kill List, a reasonably compelling story of two hit men that gets weirder and […]
The Unmissable Fast & Furious 6
Fast cars, hot ninja vixens, giant exploding balls of muscle, tanks jumping over airplanes on crutches whilst whistling Dixie, Vin Diesel in a unitard oiled up and — defying the […]
Star Trek Into Darkness Explores Where the Sun Don’t Shine
Last night I saw Star Trek Into Darkness with the Supreme Being. This morning, I woke up to George Takei’s smiling mug on Facebook. And in between — listening to SB […]
Star Trek Into Darkness vs. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Way back when in that magical summer of ’82 the second Star Trek movie, The Wrath of Khan, opened. It was something of a reboot, despite that word not being […]
Mind Control Double Feature #43: Outsiders In The Big City
The big city. The simmering fleshpot. The lights, the people, the noise, the great towering cloudscratching skyscrapers! Its lure is age-old. As soon as there were cities, there were kids […]
Kickstarter Kills Giant Robots Dead
I had myself a wee little rant. Supreme Being, a regular commenter Fellow Traveler, and I were talking about nerds, and superhero films, and Kickstarter and my brain just sort […]
Will Smith To Star In Remake of The Wild Bunch! Hooray!
Great news, everyone, the kind of news that keeps us going in these hard times, the kind that gets our juices flowing, the kind that promises that Jesus himself will […]
Stop Acting Crazy
You know the kind of movie I’m talking about. It’s the one in which the respected actor proves his or her chops by pretending to suffer from significant cranial distress. […]
The Pull of Gravity
You can feel it. Gravity. Such a simple thing. No giant robots. No superheroes. No zombies or serial killers or high-concept plot twists that involve head-scratchingly inane alternate-universe worlds. Just […]
Mind Control Double Feature #42: Pop Sensation
I’ve got this Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians song going through my head. I don’t remember the last time I heard it so its resonance in my skull is mysterious. […]