Steven Soderbergh, Richard Lester, And The Knack
Nobody ever told me about Getting Away With It, a ’99 book in which Steven Soderbergh interviews Richard Lester, director of such movies as A Hard Day’s Night, Help!, Petulia, […]
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What I Learned From The Class of 1984
You think teenagers are trouble today, you should have seen them back in 1982, when a deadly combination of Martian fashion, post-punk music, and the lingering ill effects of […]
Mind Control Double Feature #63: Of Ancient Myths And Little Girls
What is it about little girls? They’re spooky. Headstrong. Probably possessed by spirits or intergalactic alien intelligences. Like cats, they’re entirely too curious. They’re the epitome of innocence. Yet they […]
Ron Howard’s Rush Is A Good Movie–Also, Pigs Seen Flying Over Icy Frozen Hellscape
It’s not often I go around seeing, let alone enjoying, films directed by Ron Howard, but what do you know, Rush is a mostly enjoyable movie, stylish and well-made.
Breaking Bad Recap: Season 5, Episode 16 – Felina
And so, with an ambiguous ending as strange as the Twin Peaks finale and as open to interpretation as The Sopranos–
Soylent Green Is Made Out of [SPOILER]! It’s [SPOILER]!
If you’re one of the few culturally closeted peopled left in the world who doesn’t know that Soylent Green might contain other ingredients aside from high-energy oceanic plankton, you might […]
What I Learned In The Blackboard Jungle
You think teenagers are trouble today, you should have seen them in 1955, back when they were invented.
Breaking Bad Recap: Season 5, Episode 15 – Granite State
After last week’s 47 minutes of pure insanity, it was a given that “Granite State,” the penultimate episode of Breaking Bad, would settle down to the normal level of heart-attack inducing tension we expect on a week to week basis.
Mind Control Double Feature #61: The Big Con
I’m the Supreme Being, not a historian, and am therefore unqualified to say why there is no figure more revered in the annals of United States history than the con […]
Cronenberg’s Scanners Will Blow Up Your Head
Scanners (’81) is a very strange movie. It’s renowned for a scene—originally supposed to open the film—wherein Michael Ironside, as the evil scanner Darryl Revok, sits on a panel before […]
Our Nixon: Fun With Super-8
Nixon and Watergate. Best political scandal ever? It’s the gift that keeps on giving, to the point where every scandal since has had “gate” stuck on the end of it, […]
Breaking Bad Recap: Season 5, Episode 14 – Ozymandias
Now that I’m no longer curled up in a ball in the corner, weeping and clutching my teddy bear, maybe I can write something about “Ozymandias,” this week’s aptly named […]
2013: Hollywood’s Summer of Flops?
The summer movie season was littered with bombs, flops, and misfires. More mega-budget movies were released than in any previous summer season, thus over-crowding the marketplace, resulting in dud after […]
Breaking Bad Recap: Season 5, Episode 13 – To’hajiilee
“Fire in the hole, bitch!”