Man of Steel: Bad News From Outer Space
Has there ever been a good Superman movie? I’m beginning to think not. I have a fondness from days of yore for the first two Christopher Reeve versions, but they […]
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Breaking Bad Revisited: Season 1, Episodes 4 & 5
“I’m thinking Albuquerque might just have a new kingpin.”
This Is The End, And The Pointlessness of Reviewing Average Movies
There’s nothing exceptionally bad about This Is The End. There’s nothing exceptionally good about it either. It’s got just enough laughs to offset its thinly thought-out story, so when it […]
Mind Control Double Feature #47: Death of The Dream, American Style
If there’s one thing we’ve got here in the good ol’ U.S. of A., it’s roads. Roads and freedom, the two things we’ve got in America. Or at least the […]
Breaking Bad Revisited: Season 1, Episodes 1-3
The southwest American desert. A blue sky. A pair of pants, fluttering to earth. So begins Breaking Bad’s pilot episode, and what an episode. Just shy of an hour, and it lays out a roadmap for everything that follows.
The 10 Best Steven Spielberg Movies? Is Such A List Even Possible?
Steven Spielberg is a peculiar figure in the history of movie directors. He started out as a well-reviewed wunderkind, was then castigated by critics for years as an unserious director […]
Before Sunrise, Sunset, & Midnight
I like these movies much more than I thought I did. They’re about time, and time is interesting. It does things to people. We can’t help but make choices as […]
Mind Control Double Feature #45: Eviscerating The ’80s
If you had the pleasure, or lack thereof, of growing up in the ‘80s, or otherwise living through it in any conscious way, you might have noticed the greed, the […]
Four Movies To Look Forward To This Summer
There are times, usually every summer movie season, right about now, when one begins to lose hope for the future of film, when one’s brain begins to feel as if […]
The Towering Inferno And Other Past Disasters
It’s Memorial Day Weekend, folks, and movie-wise you know what that means: nothing but the biggest, loudest, most astrogivastantical epics ever conceived of by humankind will be on display at […]
On Magic, Logic, Brains, And The Hollywood Spectacular
Taking a break last night from another typically explodey summer of billion dollar Hollywood spectaculars (that’s what the kids are calling movies today, right? “Spectaculars”? I try to keep up […]
A Field In England: Watch This Trailer Immediately
Ben Wheatley has made three movies prior to this one, Down Terrace, which I haven’t seen, Kill List, a reasonably compelling story of two hit men that gets weirder and […]
Star Trek Into Darkness vs. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Way back when in that magical summer of ’82 the second Star Trek movie, The Wrath of Khan, opened. It was something of a reboot, despite that word not being […]
Mind Control Double Feature #43: Outsiders In The Big City
The big city. The simmering fleshpot. The lights, the people, the noise, the great towering cloudscratching skyscrapers! Its lure is age-old. As soon as there were cities, there were kids […]