The 20 Best Double Features
Desperately craving a double feature? This list of 20 guaran-damn-teed, 100%-satisfying double bills will make you wish every evening was Saturday night and your eyes were made of interstellar diamonds.
Queen Bitch Double Feature: Them! / Aliens
Sometimes that’s just how the story goes. Giant rampaging insectoids threaten to decimate a community. The only way to stop them, of course, is a good old fashioned dose of […]
Upstream Color: Plasma Head Fusion
I just hope that pig is okay. Or tasty.
…Reflections On Dead Man…
…An acid western, a revisionist western, a post-modern western, the western Tarkovsky never made, Jim Jarmusch’s masterpiece, Dead Man (’95), has been dubbed many things. It is best not to […]
Silver Linings Playbook; Cloudy with Bright Spots
I’ve been thinking lately about nuance. About shades of grey. It started with a comment-tiff I had with folks over at Bad Ass Digest. I suggested an alternative viewpoint to […]
“I Am The Motherfucking Shore Patrol!” Hal Ashby And The Last Detail
The Last Detail (’73), director Hal Ashby’s follow-up to Harold & Maude, is a mysteriously compelling little movie. There’s not a dull moment in it, yet nothing happens. Ashby and […]
Mind Control Double Feature #19: 1980s Film Noir
Film noir isn’t all 1940s, black hats, deep shadows, back-stabbing women, desperate criminals, and the hopeless futility of trying to escape one’s fate. It’s mostly that, which is why film […]
Quentin Tarantino is not as Cool as Male Strippers
I just watched Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh’s latest feature. This is a film about male strippers that stars Channing Tatum and Alex Pettyfer. It was the only one of Soderbergh’s films […]
Wreck It Ralph: About as Funny as Pong
In order to tear something down, first you must build. Otherwise, there’s no loss, no drama. Wreck It Ralph took a by-the-numbers plot and over-gilded it with in-jokes, asides, and […]
Explosive Wu Xia Action
I am not, in general, a kung fu fighter. That’s not to say that I can’t get into the balletic precision and athletic exuberance that imbues top-notch martial arts movies. […]
On Lincoln, Spielberg, And Crushing Boredom
One of the inconcievably vast number of brain-rapingly awful things about Indiana Jones And The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull was Steven Spielberg’s boring direction, evident in every boring frame […]
This Post is Exactly as Funny as American Reunion
Here are all of the jokes in the first 52 minutes of the eighth American Pie film, American Reunion: Jim (Jason Biggs) is caught masturbating by small child Jim hurts […]
Hal Ashby And Bound For Glory
Speaking of directors with unbroken strings of great movies, does anyone top Hal Ashby in the ’70s? In order, he made Harold & Maude, The Last Detail, Shampoo, Bound For […]
This Double Feature is Not as It Seems
There is, perhaps, a thin film of deception spread across the skein of the world. What you see with your eyes, what your ears alert you to, what your grubby […]