The Internship & Grown Ups 2: Go Fuck Yourself
Honestly, we only have ourselves to blame. People talk about the decline of Western civilization and here is the proof. Nothing, absolutely nothing, could be worse than these two films. […]
The Best Opening Credits Sequence of All Time
No charming intros today. Let’s keep it simple. The best opening credits sequence of all time? The Shining. That’s it. You can have your Saul Bass and your James Bond […]
Mind Control Double Feature #39: Your New Insect Overlords
Back when I was knee-high to a grasshopper, my great-grandpappy sat me on his lap and said, “Boy, there’s a time gone come in life, when you just plain ain’t […]
Touch of Evil: It Was Some Kind of A Movie
Touch of Evil is Orson Welles’s best movie. Which is a scandalous thing to say in the movie world. Maybe not scandalous. How about sacriligeous? Citizen Kane is, after all, […]
Nic Cage’s Stolen: The Laziest Film of All Time
Have you seen Nic Cage’s face recently? I mean, really looked at it. The man looks like he’s been making out with a belt sander. Like he would need an extremely […]
Akira: Critical Nuclear Head Meltdown
You are the monster. You are the god. You are the destroyer, the creator, the ripping skein of life torn free and thrashing wild. You are the wind that cleanses and burns and you are only a boy.
On Koyaanisqatsi, Beauty, And Ambiguity
Images from Godfrey Reggio’s 1983 film Koyaanisqatsi are etched into my brain. Nighttime cityscapes at high speed, their streets like veins carrying electrons. Rivers of fog roiling over mountains. A […]
Mind Control Double Feature #38: Cryptozoology
Do me a favor, okay? Just click play on the video below and keep reading. You don’t need to watch it. In fact, you shouldn’t watch it. There are no […]
8 Million Ways to Die: Hal Ashby’s Lost Lifeline
Here at Stand By For Mind Control, we’re big Hal Ashby fans. This is because he was one of the world’s most empathetic directors. His complex characters ride their flaws like […]
Soderbergh’s Behind The Candelabra Looks Kind Of Marvelous
Watching this trailer it’s awfully sad to think Steven Soderbergh won’t be directing any more movies. Matt Damon and Michael Douglas will be starring in more of them, but will […]
Interview With Andrew Sensenig, The Mysterious Sampler In Upstream Color
Upstream Color is the new movie by the writer/director Shane Carruth, whose last, and first, movie, Primer, came out back in ’04. Primer is an odd, unique movie about time […]
Mind Control Double Feature #37: Faux Heroes Save The Day
Here at the bustling Stand By For Mind Control laboratories we often like our movies intense, weird, dark, slow, depressing, and liable to leave permanent psychological scars. We like movies […]
A Royal Affair: Pawn Takes Queen
Objectively, Nikolaj Arcel’s A Royal Affair tells a fascinating tale of palace intrigue, the birth of the Enlightenment, treachery, insanity, and illicit sex. These are all things that I enjoy watching. I also […]
Exegesis Of A Genius: The Charlie Sheen Cinematic Oeuvre
(Following is an excerpt from Dr. Herman O. Gorvald’s upcoming work, Infinite Sheen And The Recursiveness of Being, which he has generously allowed us to publish, exclusively, for the delight […]