Mind Control Double Feature #59: Dancing With Death
I hate to start this double feature write-up on a down note, but the thing is, you’re going to die. Not anytime soon, heavens no! You’re going to live a […]
I hate to start this double feature write-up on a down note, but the thing is, you’re going to die. Not anytime soon, heavens no! You’re going to live a […]
Later, as he sat on the balcony eating the dog, Doctor Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months.
By the time you read this post, I will be dead. Or camping. Probably just camping, really, but who can say? I mean, when was the last time you heard […]
“Mr. White—he’s the devil!”
Sometimes a movie begins, and within ten seconds you hate it, and try as you might to step back, to go with the flow, to give it another chance, nothing […]
Surely we’ve all had times in our lives when we’ve feared suddenly turning into a wardrobe or a foyer or a driveway or a blender or what have you. It […]
Are your eyes bigger than your stomach? I sure hope not. That would be seriously gross. Unless you’ve got a really small stomach? But if so, how are you even […]
I have a confession. When the Supreme Being asked me to fill in for him on his regular Breaking Bad Recap column, I wasn’t enthused. I mean: he’s been doing […]
The new Danish film, A Hijacking (Kapringen), which I watched last night, seems like the mirror image of the upcoming Paul Greengrass / Tom Hanks film Captain Phillips. In the expensive Hollywood […]
Starring Marlon Brandon. Directed by Elia Kazan. A story of an aspiring hero overcoming his corrupted brother to lead his community to freedom from tyranny. I speak, of course, of Viva […]
The life of the boxer is a fabled one. Hard luck guys scrabbling to better themselves the only way they know how. Harder luck guys never making it at all. Guys bought by mobsters to take a fall. Guys too hard-headed to take the fall shot dead by said mobsters.
It pains me to admit it, but I enjoy watching reality television. The Bachelor has long been a source of fascination for me, and when I have an extra hour […]
So much time, so few movies. Wait. Reverse that. Watching H.G. Wells’ Things To Come for the first time, I wondered how I’d gone so long without seeing it. It’s […]
“Am I under arrest?”