Ali: Fear Eats The Soul – A Weird Name For A Great Movie
Rainer Werner Fassbinder is one of the more colorful directors in movie history. To put it mildly. To put it another way, he was a madman.
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Blue Ruin: A Man, A Car, And Lots of Dead People
The question Blue Ruin brought to mind was something nebulous about what makes a movie “good.” Because, on the one hand, Blue Ruin is in many ways a very good movie. On the other, it’s not really about anything other than being a good movie.
Memories Of Robin Williams
Robin Williams? I remember Robin Williams…
Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Decalogue Is Some Damn Fine TV
A master director makes a brilliant TV show. And I’m not talking about Soderbergh and The Knick.
A Few Words On The Hit, And Director Stephen Frears
What the hell? There’s a movie starring Terrance Stamp, John Hurt, and Tim Roth released in ’84, called The Hit? How had I never heard of this before? Wait, Tim Roth? What was he, like 12 when he made this?
All That Heaven Allows – And Then Some
In which Douglas Sirk gets away with subversive, melodramatic murder. His victim: the ’50s.
All-Purpose Marvel Movie Review
Want to know about the latest Marvel movie? How about that one from two years ago? Or the one five years from now? We’ve got you covered.
Finding Fela: Or, More Exactly, Finding A Broadway Musical About Fela Kuti
Music so brilliant, a man so fascinating, maybe the next doc made about his life will be the good one.
A Most Wanted Man: In Which Philip Seymour Hoffman Comes To An End
A tightly wound, slow-burning spy flick, in which Philip Seymour Hoffman gives the kind of performance you wish like hell he was around to keep on giving.
Boyhood, In Which Time Is The Star
Richard Linklater gathers up time and turns it into a movie you’re going to have to see.
Woody Allen Makes Magic In The Moonlight
In which, like the fabled groundhog, Woody Allen emerges to enact his yearly ritual: the presentation of a new movie.
A Hard Day’s Night Is Really Good, And Other Stunning Beatles Revelations
I think this band could really make it big.
Gremlins Will Eat Your Face
Joe Dante’s 1984 Christmas movie, Gremlins, is the funniest, bleakest, most horrific kids’ movie ever made. In fact it may be the only horror movie for kids I can think of.
Beware Of Mr. Baker: On The Invention Of The Rock Drummer
In which Ginger Baker, the original madman drummer, is exhumed for our examination. So to speak.