Mind Control Double Feature #94: Two Heads Are Better Than None
I’m of two minds about this week’s Mind Control Double Feature.
I’m of two minds about this week’s Mind Control Double Feature.
Ape madness continues with a movie you will hardly credit existing, even if, like me, you watched it last night.
It is impossible to deny. After The Fast and the Furious, 2 Fast 2 Furious, and Tres Fast Tres Furious, Fast & Furious is unquestionably the fourth film in this series of auto-racing movies of erratic quality.
The only thing that’s important to know about The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is that not even seeing it at the drive-in will make it a good movie.
The main thing Frank has going for it is that Frank is a guy who wears a giant fake head and never takes it off. Which is good for quite a bit of entertainment before the movie falls apart.
The point is to know, for the length of the trip to London, a man.
What’s that? You got in a fight? And you won? That’s very impressive of you. Whom did you fight? Was it—a human being? Yawn. A real man doesn’t fight other men. He fights trains.
If someone would announce a Star Wars movie that took place during the original war that had no episode number and no mention of a Skywalker, then I would get excited.
April showers bring May flowers. May flowers be enough to make up for my recommending you see the latest remake of Godzilla.
In which I venture into the first of The Planet of The Apes sequels, and do not emerge unscathed.
If you haven’t seen Coherence, don’t read most of this article.
That’s Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, and Oscar Isaac acting squiggly throughout the scenic Mediterranean.
Sorcerer, William Friedkin’s gritty, arty, ’77 remake of the classic ’53 French action movie, The Wages of Fear, had the misfortune to open one month after Star Wars.
All I want is one lousy priceless diamond of international significance. Is that too much to ask?