Harold Ramis: He Was The Ball
I was a lucky child. Where I grew up, in Palo Alto, we had The New Varsity Theater, a rep movie house that showed double and triple bills covering the […]
Author Archives: Supreme Being
Fighting The Rumble Fish
You want to talk odd kettles of fish, colorful Siamese fighting fish, even, you should take a look at Rumble Fish.
Mind Control Double Feature #83: They’re Coming To Get You
In which we travel to 1970s San Francisco and experience a profound and inescapable paranoia.
Revenge of The Nerds: The Uplifting ‘80s Antidote To Animal House
In which we look more deeply into Revenge of The Nerds than one would think advisable.
A Field In England: Circular 17th Century Psychedelia
Somewhere in England, during the English Civil War, on the far side of a hedgerow, in a field, three soldiers and an alchemist’s assistant leave the battle in search of an alehouse.
The Congress: Robin In Wacky-Land
Tell me there’s a new independent movie that’s half live-action, half animation, abrim with social commentary, and based on a story by funny/brilliant Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem, and I am going to see that movie
Mind Control Double Feature #81: Burning The Midnight Oil
Of desperate men and burning landscapes, imagined and real.
Time To Get Excited About Jodorowsky’s Dune
Coming soon, a documentary about the Dune that never was, the Dune that was to be the most important picture in the history of humanity.
Best of Bay Area Film – February 2014
Everyone’s running and screaming about this month’s movie guide. Join them. See these movies and become one with the universe. We guarantee it.
On How Invasion Of The Body Snatchers Had Its Real Ending Snatched
A true tale of extra-terrestrial abduction, in which a great movie was made slightly less great by forces of pure evil.
The Fortune: Warren Beatty & Jack Nicholson In The Worst Thing Ever
If you’re going to watch a movie—and why wouldn’t you, movies are awesome, you love them, you’re here to read about them—I would suggest not, under any circumstances, watching The Fortune.
Mind Control Double Feature #79: Melodrama, damn you! Melodrama!
Shocks! Thrills! Murder! Adultery! Madness! Dare to enter this post if you will–but be warned–what you see within may never be unseen.
Top Ten Evil Alien Nuns Whose Heads Explode In Philomena
With so many to choose from, how, you ask, have I narrowed it down to ten? Science!
Duck, You Sucker & After The Fox: White Guys With Accents
In which famous Italian directors make what are not at all their most famous movies. Strange ’60s shenanigans result.