Pootie Tang: Worst Movie Ever, Or Stealth Work Of Genius?
Pootie Tang (’01), written and directed by then mostly unknown and now hugely beloved and respected Louis C.K., was widely ignored and/or despised when it came out. Here’s a sampling […]
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Mind Control Double Feature #29: Post-Apocalyptic Tragedy And Comedy
The future. We’re all going to be living in it any moment now. And we know exactly what to expect of it. No, not hover cars, teleportation, sleek rocketships, Moon […]
A New Monty Python (Sort Of) Movie On The Horizon
News of hope for the future: there’s a new Monty Pythonesque movie in the works, or so says Variety. With a script by Terry Jones that he’s been kicking around […]
The Best 3-D Movie You Haven’t Seen
I am not at all fond of 3-D movies. They don’t look more “real” to me. They don’t make me feel like I’m more immersed in the action. They tire […]
Shallow Thoughts On The Top Grossing Movies of 2012
January is Hollywood’s morgue. They wheel in the corpses of movies they wish they’d never made, bloated and bleeding, limbs missing, faces unrecognizable, and hope nobody notices the stink. […]
Mind Control Double Feature #27: Film Noir Heists Gone Bad
What with the 11th annual Noir City festival coming up here in San Francisco (which I just wrote about here), I’ve got noir on the brain. Last week’s Evil Genius […]
New Coen Bros Trailer: Inside Llewyn Davis
I was just wondering what Joel and Ethan Coen were up to. It’s been awhile since True Grit. Their new one is called Inside Llewyn Davis, and it’s not a […]
Noir City Festival At The Castro
Do you live in the Bay Area? You are luckier than you know. For this weekend marks the beginning of the 11th annual Noir City film festival at the Castro […]
The Best Action Movies Of The ’80s
The best decade of movies managed to last fifteen years, from ’67 to ’82. It was a decade-plus of grim realism, anti-heroes, dark endings, and plotless character studies that existed […]
Malkovich Malkovich
When I first saw Being John Malkovich in ’99, I felt as though my brain had been violated in the same way Malkovich’s was in the movie. It was as […]
The Oscars: Hollywood’s Meat Parade Returns!
The best thing anyone ever said about the Oscars was said by George C. Scott, who put it thus: “The ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with […]
Mind Control Double Feature #25: Of Heads And Power Tools
And so we find ourselves in the cold, dark days of January. The nights are long, the trees are bare, the skies—well, all right, it’s sunny at the moment, but […]
Decasia: An Abstract Trip
Decasia (’02) is a trip. Far be it from me to promote or even suggest the smoking of a certain plant, but if that’s the sort of thing you enjoy, […]
In Which The Last Picture Show Reminds Me Why I Love Movies
Wind blows dust and leaves through a small Texas town. Everything is fading, everything is dying. Cracked, dirty windows obscure the view. The pool hall is empty, its screen door […]