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, […]
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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!”
Don’t Watch Watership Down; Read It
Why not watch Watership Down, I thought? I hadn’t seen it since I was a wee little kid, and I recalled it being weird and dark and very unusual for […]
Mind Control Double Feature #59: Dancing With Death
I hate to start this double feature write-up on a down note, but the thing is, you’re going to die. Not anytime soon, heavens no! You’re going to live a […]
J.G. Ballard’s High Rise Directed By Ben Wheatley? Sign Me Up
Later, as he sat on the balcony eating the dog, Doctor Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months.
Breaking Bad Recap: Season 5, Episode 12 – Rabid Dog
“Mr. White—he’s the devil!”
In Which Wong Kar Wai’s The Grandmaster Leaves Me Begging For Mercy
Sometimes a movie begins, and within ten seconds you hate it, and try as you might to step back, to go with the flow, to give it another chance, nothing […]
The Bed-Sitting Room Is A Very Odd Film
Surely we’ve all had times in our lives when we’ve feared suddenly turning into a wardrobe or a foyer or a driveway or a blender or what have you. It […]
Mind Control Double Feature #57: The Life of The Boxer
The life of the boxer is a fabled one. Hard luck guys scrabbling to better themselves the only way they know how. Harder luck guys never making it at all. Guys bought by mobsters to take a fall. Guys too hard-headed to take the fall shot dead by said mobsters.
Old-Timey Sci-Fi Craziness: H.G. Wells’ Things To Come
So much time, so few movies. Wait. Reverse that. Watching H.G. Wells’ Things To Come for the first time, I wondered how I’d gone so long without seeing it. It’s […]
Breaking Bad Recap: Season 5, Episode 10 – Buried
“Am I under arrest?”
Coming Soon: A Remake of Unforgiven
It’s a hell of a thing, remaking a famous movie.