Moon Movies
The moon. What is it doing up there? Where did it come from? Who lives inside it? How did they get there? Why aren’t we digging inside it this very […]
The moon. What is it doing up there? Where did it come from? Who lives inside it? How did they get there? Why aren’t we digging inside it this very […]
Today I received the following email: Isn’t that amazing? I’m only disappointed that I wasn’t able to trek to this mysterious, Neolithic, monument to see it gussied up with new […]
One thing I love about old movies is the window they open on the past. It doesn’t matter when they’re set, be they westerns, science fiction, or contemporary. It doesn’t […]
Oz the Bland and Predictable. Oz The Dull and Pitiable. Oz The Safe and Marketable. Oz The…zzzzzzzzzzz. Could you make a movie worse than Sam Raimi’s Oz The Great and […]
I adore Full Metal Jacket even though it is, clearly, a difficult film to keep company with. The film is not Stanley Kubrick’s most cohesive effort or his most accessible. It is, […]
I was in love with David Cronenberg movies before I ever saw one. I must have been about 12 when I heard about a movie called Scanners (’80) in which […]
The most alarming thing a filmmaker can say when turning a novel into a movie is, “We’re being true to the book.” This is a terrible thing to do. What […]
I finally saw the documentary Searching For Sugar Man, the hit from Sundance ’12 that just took home an Oscar last week. I liked it, and I can see why […]
It’s been a long time, too long, since my brain has been as weirdly and intensely affected by a new movie as it was last night at a screening of […]
9:00 – Like a corpse dragged from one grave to another because of the condos going up in what was once a convenient swamp, so too is this show dragged […]
The worst movie, you say? Argo? The one poised to take home a Best Picture Oscar in two days, which you found to be a wholly inoffensive, exciting little diversion? […]
There exists no better medium for approximating dreams than film. Dreams and movies work in images to tell a story or impart a feeling or remind your brain of something […]
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 […]
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 […]