The Quiet Devastation of Michael Clayton
Revisiting this low-key sort-of thriller from way, way back in the aughts.
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Take This Job And Shove It, or: Happy Labor Day!
Why not celebrate Labor Day by quitting your job? Hooray!
That Guy Dick Miller: A Movie About That Guy, Dick Miller
The movies’ greatest “that guy” gets his own documentary. About time.
Remembering Wes Craven
RIP Wes Craven, 1939-2015.
Walter Hill’s The Driver: Full of Sound And Fury, Signifying Nothing
An attempt at a minimalist, existential action flick. Go for the car chases, stay for… well… the car chases.
Class of 1999: Spanked By A Terminator
In the future, we will all be spanked by robots.
48 Hrs. And The Angry Violence of Walter Hill
In which there will be yelling and there will be shooting.
The Fugitive Kind, In Which Brando Smolders
A slow-burning Tennessee Williams melodrama you may or may not enjoy falling asleep to.
The End Of The Tour: Chatting Up David Foster Wallace
Annoying reporter meets awesome writer. No drama ensues.
The Problem With CGI
In which we find questionable those insisting we stop complaining about computer graphics overwhelming movies.
The Diary of A Teenage Girl Contains Sex And Art And A Search For Self. But Mostly Sex.
What’s this? A non-moralizing coming-of-age movie about a teenage girl? Tis rare indeed, but here it is, in all its ’70s glory.
The Monolith Monsters, And Other Tales of Weird ‘50s Sci-Fi
In which killer rocks from outer space come for our women.
Reservoir Dogs Still Packs A Punch
Tarantino’s debut is no cakewalk.
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation Finally Gets It Right
Saying it’s the best in the series may not be saying a lot, but it’s saying something. Something like: Gosh, this ain’t half bad.