Citizenfour: Edward Snowden, as It Happens
When Laura Poitras, after receiving encrypted emails from Snowden, came to meet him in Hong Kong with her camera, she did us all an immense favor.
Author Archives: Evil Genius
Fury: Tanks for Nothing
Prepare to get furious for all the wrong reasons.
Ralph Steadman + Breaking Bad
What else needs to be said?
Whiplash: Interview with Writer / Director Damien Chazelle
Find out what frightens the writer/director of my new favorite torture porn love story, Whiplash.
The Green Prince; The Great Price
One half of this film is about the life of Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of a Hamas leader, betrayer of his people, inside-out savior assailant.
Pink Flamingos Shows Off Its Junk
Pink Flamingos is filthy in its conception and it is filthy in its actualization. It is the largest freak flag you can find flying.
Let’s Get Utterly Alien: Annihilation, Stalker, and Solaris
There have been all too few films that have addressed the utterly alien in a way that’s even vaguely adequate.
Art and Craft Boldly Forges Ahead
Landis, like a cross between James Carville and unspooled gauze, could not be more fascinating or authentic.
10 Secrets About The Boxtrolls
This film is perfect for your kids, who, if you didn’t take them to the movies, would likely be down by the river poking some dead thing with a stick.
Indelible Images in A Place in the Sun and Zeroville
There is an image you cannot scrape from behind your eyes. It is a flash from a film, from something you dreamed, from a place unnamed and unknown.
I Saw the Devil and He Looks Like You
Look and squirm at the gorgeous grotesque.
The Drop Falls Flat
There’s a new film out, written by Dennis Lehane, novelist behind Mystic River and Shutter Island and Gone Baby Gone. It stars Tom Hardy and the late, great James Gandolfini, and Noomi Rapace. […]
The Drowning Pool Flounders in the Deep End
The Drowning Pool has a lot going for it, but these elements just don’t float.
God Help the Girl Makes You Pop
The film is like a wistful fruit, pulverized down to pulp so you can swallow deep and let the juice stain your lips