I would like you to listen closely. That’s what Berberian Sound Studio—a new mind-warping creeper helmed by Peter Strickland—asks you to do. This is a dissociative sort of picture. One in which what […]
The protagonist of Quentin Dupieux’s last film was a tire. It was a hostage drama (in which you were the hostage) and I thought it was excellently weird. This time […]
Today is Valentine’s Day and what could be more romantic than being pigeonholed? Now that I’ve written that sentence, I feel the need to clarify: ‘being pigeonholed’ isn’t, to my […]
Sightseers is the pleasant tale of a couple, Tina and Chris (Alice Lowe and Steve Oram, also the movie’s writers), who embark on a weeklong, romantic roadtrip across the English […]
I walked out of a film last night. The last time I did that was 1994. According to festival reviewers (SF Indie Fest and others), The Legend of Kaspar Hauser combines the […]
Right now there is a completely avoidable tragedy afflicting untold millions of Americans. They do not have the chance to see Don Coscarelli’s John Dies at the End in a proper […]
Pootie Tang (’01), written and directed by then mostly unknown and now hugely beloved and respected Louis C.K., was widely ignored and/or despised when it came out. Here’s a sampling […]
Do you know who is really funny? John Landis, that’s who. I was lucky enough to watch Animal House—Landis’ first studio film—last night with the man himself in attendance. (Thank […]
The future. We’re all going to be living in it any moment now. And we know exactly what to expect of it. No, not hover cars, teleportation, sleek rocketships, Moon […]
News of hope for the future: there’s a new Monty Pythonesque movie in the works, or so says Variety. With a script by Terry Jones that he’s been kicking around […]
Today, my friends, was a rough day. The Hound of Evil hurt her foot and so I had to take her to the vet. The vet installed her with a […]
I am not at all fond of 3-D movies. They don’t look more “real” to me. They don’t make me feel like I’m more immersed in the action. They tire […]
I know; it’s easy to get trapped on the couch. You’ve got your blanky, and the dog curled up beside you, and your giant television playing a non-stop A-Team marathon. In […]
January is Hollywood’s morgue. They wheel in the corpses of movies they wish they’d never made, bloated and bleeding, limbs missing, faces unrecognizable, and hope nobody notices the stink. […]