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, […]
Explode Tiny Minds with Time Bandits
If you have children—or know some children—and you don’t want them to grow up to be sniveling little toady rats, here’s my advice: set their heads in front of Time Bandits and watch their brains explode with potential.
In Which The Last Picture Show Reminds Me Why I Love Movies
Wind blows dust and leaves through a small Texas town. Everything is fading, everything is dying. Cracked, dirty windows obscure the view. The pool hall is empty, its screen door […]
Zero (Awareness) Dark (Hopes) Thirty (-Thousand Foot View)
I went to see Zero Dark Thirty on Friday with the Supreme Being. Since then, he’s written an excellently insightful review of what director Kathryn Bigelow did with the film. I’ve […]
Zero Dark Thirty And The Artistic Vacuum
Zero Dark Thirty is being praised to the high heavens for its “journalistic” and “realistic” take on the hunt for and killing of Osama Bin Laden, terms film critics use […]
The Most Important Top 10 of 2012
Many many many people have been inundating you with Top Ten lists lately. But this… this is something different. Something important. Something amazing and beautiful.
Echoes Of 2001
Hey kids, it’s time to melt your brains a wee bit with this marvelous visual/audio mash-up of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and Pink Floyd’s “Echoes” from their album Meddle. […]
Mind Control Double Feature #24: Worst. Year. Ever.
Oh. My. Holy. Fucking. APOCALYPTIC MAYHEM! We are all screwed. We are screwed every which way. Up, down, sideways, and inside out. Screwed. It is now 2013, a year I had […]
Tarantino A Genius? Django Unchained Says No
Seems like these days you can’t throw a rock at the internet without knocking Quentin Tarantino’s dick out of someone’s mouth. The arguments raging on movie nerd sites range all […]
Django’s Unchained Melody
What can be intelligently said about Django Unchained? If we leave aside all of the fanboy love and the howls of the haters, what sense remains? Is this what you […]