Mind Control Double Feature #27: Film Noir Heists Gone Bad
What with the 11th annual Noir City festival coming up here in San Francisco (which I just wrote about here), I’ve got noir on the brain. Last week’s Evil Genius […]
New Coen Bros Trailer: Inside Llewyn Davis
I was just wondering what Joel and Ethan Coen were up to. It’s been awhile since True Grit. Their new one is called Inside Llewyn Davis, and it’s not a […]
Noir City Festival At The Castro
Do you live in the Bay Area? You are luckier than you know. For this weekend marks the beginning of the 11th annual Noir City film festival at the Castro […]
I Like to Watch Lovers Year-Round!
It has come to our attention through creatively spelled comments that some of you consider us ‘haters.’ To this we respond, pish posh. We’d been looking for a reason to […]
The Best Action Movies Of The ’80s
The best decade of movies managed to last fifteen years, from ’67 to ’82. It was a decade-plus of grim realism, anti-heroes, dark endings, and plotless character studies that existed […]
Malkovich Malkovich
When I first saw Being John Malkovich in ’99, I felt as though my brain had been violated in the same way Malkovich’s was in the movie. It was as […]
The Central Park Five
The really shocking thing about documentary The Central Park Five isn’t how completely these innocent kids were sewn up by the system, it’s that stories like this happen all the damn time. This one’s an excellent companion to The Queen of Versailles for a double-thick slice of fucked up America.
Mind Control Double Feature #26: Where Loyalties Lie
Holy shitballs! I am exceptionally happy to offer up this week’s Stand By For Mind Control Double Feature. Positively giddy! I’m like a schoolgirl with a throat full of bourbon bouncing […]
The Oscars: Hollywood’s Meat Parade Returns!
The best thing anyone ever said about the Oscars was said by George C. Scott, who put it thus: “The ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with […]
Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink
You’re watching a movie and a character in it strikes a particular pose. Or maybe the way the camera frames the scene, or a few elements of the production design, […]
Life of Pi: Is it Full of Tiger Poop?
A young man. A tiger. A small lifeboat. As the premise for a film, it’s intriguing. One simply must wonder: just how full of tiger poop can this thing get before it sinks?
Mind Control Double Feature #25: Of Heads And Power Tools
And so we find ourselves in the cold, dark days of January. The nights are long, the trees are bare, the skies—well, all right, it’s sunny at the moment, but […]
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia and Brilliant Ambiguity
How does a group of filmmakers present something—a story, or an idea, or even just bald events—and let the audience find their own meaning in ambiguity?
Decasia: An Abstract Trip
Decasia (’02) is a trip. Far be it from me to promote or even suggest the smoking of a certain plant, but if that’s the sort of thing you enjoy, […]