Tangerine Dream Meets Tangerine Reality
Tangerine is a Tom Waits song or a Bukowski novel. It is a tale that makes you feel and care and know subjects normally considered too marginal for your attention.
Author Archives: Evil Genius
The Look of Silence is Indelible and Deafening
Scrape the cholesterol from the hardened arteries of cinema, to make its heart — and yours — beat with frightening vigor.
Medium Cool Will Not Be Televised
Be here now
The Revenant Wants You Dead
Go see The Revenant with your dead son.
Lost in the Storm with The Hateful Eight
I think you should watch it on TV, late one drunken Saturday, and tell me what you think.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Isn’t Your Father
Let Vader strike you down; it matters not.
The Most Important Top Ten of 2015
That’s right: because of Star Wars.
Spotlight Commits Cardinal Sin
Spotlight is not nearly as thrilling as watching four people doing research and scribbling on wood-pulp paper can be.
The Good Dinosaur: on Missing that Critical Impact
What if the impact that made The Good Dinosaur a great film narrowly missed Earth?
Doctor Who Am I: A Doc About Who You Are
Whooooo are you? Who-who? Who-who?
After Another Shadow Song of The Thin Man Goes Home
Between 1934 and 1947, William Powell and Myrna Loy made six Thin Man films and you should definitely watch three of them.
Theeb (Wolf): My, What Big Choices You Have
All the better to eat you with, my dear.
The Gunman Gets Gory
The Gunman is like The Constant Gardener for people who don’t like nice things.
Some Positive Thoughts about Jupiter Ascending
If you have been dying to see Sean Bean act in a film in which he does not die and in which he plays a bee soldier, Jupiter Ascending might remove that last final chunk of your will to live.