Will Smith To Star In Remake of The Wild Bunch! Hooray!
Great news, everyone, the kind of news that keeps us going in these hard times, the kind that gets our juices flowing, the kind that promises that Jesus himself will […]
Author Archives: Supreme Being
Are Nerds Destroying The Movie Industry?
I grew up in the ‘80s. Back then, nerds were not cool. They were nerds. If you read comic books, you were not cool. If you could explain at length, […]
Mind Control Double Feature #41: The Hand of Fate Will Squish Your Tiny Head
Ah, fate! Inevitable, implacable, industrious, insidious, and many other words that begin with i, it comes for us when we least expect it, grabs us by the throat, and demands […]
On The Road Ain’t Got No Gas
It’s a bad sign chilling here in lovely Barcelona in the lobby of the Hotel Colon (which I’m told has a different meaning in Spanish, thank heavens), thinking about the […]
The Best Opening Credits Sequence of All Time
No charming intros today. Let’s keep it simple. The best opening credits sequence of all time? The Shining. That’s it. You can have your Saul Bass and your James Bond […]
Mind Control Double Feature #39: Your New Insect Overlords
Back when I was knee-high to a grasshopper, my great-grandpappy sat me on his lap and said, “Boy, there’s a time gone come in life, when you just plain ain’t […]
Touch of Evil: It Was Some Kind of A Movie
Touch of Evil is Orson Welles’s best movie. Which is a scandalous thing to say in the movie world. Maybe not scandalous. How about sacriligeous? Citizen Kane is, after all, […]
On Koyaanisqatsi, Beauty, And Ambiguity
Images from Godfrey Reggio’s 1983 film Koyaanisqatsi are etched into my brain. Nighttime cityscapes at high speed, their streets like veins carrying electrons. Rivers of fog roiling over mountains. A […]
Soderbergh’s Behind The Candelabra Looks Kind Of Marvelous
Watching this trailer it’s awfully sad to think Steven Soderbergh won’t be directing any more movies. Matt Damon and Michael Douglas will be starring in more of them, but will […]
Interview With Andrew Sensenig, The Mysterious Sampler In Upstream Color
Upstream Color is the new movie by the writer/director Shane Carruth, whose last, and first, movie, Primer, came out back in ’04. Primer is an odd, unique movie about time […]
Mind Control Double Feature #37: Faux Heroes Save The Day
Here at the bustling Stand By For Mind Control laboratories we often like our movies intense, weird, dark, slow, depressing, and liable to leave permanent psychological scars. We like movies […]
Exegesis Of A Genius: The Charlie Sheen Cinematic Oeuvre
(Following is an excerpt from Dr. Herman O. Gorvald’s upcoming work, Infinite Sheen And The Recursiveness of Being, which he has generously allowed us to publish, exclusively, for the delight […]
Spring Breakers Broke My Brain
The more I think about it, the weirder Spring Breakers becomes. It is in no way a normal kind of movie. It is a Harmony Korine movie, and Harmony Korine […]
Mind Control Double Feature #35: Those Troublesome Irish Troubles
The trouble with Irish independence is the same trouble with independence sought by any peoples throughout history: you spend ten, twenty, a hundred, five hundred years murdering your oppressors, the […]