What Steven Soderbergh Doesn’t See
On Saturday I attended Steven Soderbergh’s “State of Cinema” address, part of the San Francisco International Film Festival. I’m a huge Soderbergh fan, consistently impressed by the way he challenges […]
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A Few Thoughts on A Place Beyond the Pines
A Place Beyond the Pines is not the movie you think it is. It doesn’t star the actors you think it stars, tell the story you expect it to tell, […]
Mind Control Double Feature #40: Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me
You know what’s pretty damn amazing? That’s right: the Sun. Without the Sun, we’d all be well screwed. Frozen little peepcicles being devoured by giant bat-like monsters. Probably. I’m just […]
Spring Breaking Bad: The Shady Consequences of Spring Breakers
I realize that I am a little late to the party. That everyone’s already left for spring break, seen Spring Breakers, gotten mostly naked, highly intoxicated, incarcerated, penetrated, and otherwise violated. […]
The Internship & Grown Ups 2: Go Fuck Yourself
Honestly, we only have ourselves to blame. People talk about the decline of Western civilization and here is the proof. Nothing, absolutely nothing, could be worse than these two films. […]
Nic Cage’s Stolen: The Laziest Film of All Time
Have you seen Nic Cage’s face recently? I mean, really looked at it. The man looks like he’s been making out with a belt sander. Like he would need an extremely […]
Akira: Critical Nuclear Head Meltdown
You are the monster. You are the god. You are the destroyer, the creator, the ripping skein of life torn free and thrashing wild. You are the wind that cleanses and burns and you are only a boy.
Mind Control Double Feature #38: Cryptozoology
Do me a favor, okay? Just click play on the video below and keep reading. You don’t need to watch it. In fact, you shouldn’t watch it. There are no […]
8 Million Ways to Die: Hal Ashby’s Lost Lifeline
Here at Stand By For Mind Control, we’re big Hal Ashby fans. This is because he was one of the world’s most empathetic directors. His complex characters ride their flaws like […]
A Royal Affair: Pawn Takes Queen
Objectively, Nikolaj Arcel’s A Royal Affair tells a fascinating tale of palace intrigue, the birth of the Enlightenment, treachery, insanity, and illicit sex. These are all things that I enjoy watching. I also […]
Giant, Deadly Piles of Spider Shat
Sometimes, you think up a headline for a blog post and you just have no choice but to use it. Also, sometimes (always) you are given the opportunity to see a […]
Mind Control Double Feature #36: Manimal!
I am not an animal. I am a human being. I am a man! As defiantly romantic as the above quote sounds, it just isn’t true. Men (and women) are, […]
Stoker Will Crawl Up Your Skirt
I am a big fan of Park Chan-Wook‘s. Perhaps that makes me a Wookie? If so, I can live with that. His films—previously made in Korea in Korean—are bloody and […]
The Great Waldo Pepper’s Nostalgia Vortex
If I asked you to name that George Roy Hill film, you know, the one written by William Goldman and starring those two handsome dudes, Robert Redford and, uh, the […]