Zero Dark Thirty And The Artistic Vacuum
Zero Dark Thirty is being praised to the high heavens for its “journalistic” and “realistic” take on the hunt for and killing of Osama Bin Laden, terms film critics use […]
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Echoes Of 2001
Hey kids, it’s time to melt your brains a wee bit with this marvelous visual/audio mash-up of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and Pink Floyd’s “Echoes” from their album Meddle. […]
Tarantino A Genius? Django Unchained Says No
Seems like these days you can’t throw a rock at the internet without knocking Quentin Tarantino’s dick out of someone’s mouth. The arguments raging on movie nerd sites range all […]
Mind Control Double Feature #23: Holiday Fun Without Jesus!
It’s the holiday season, and if you’re like me, when December rolls around, you simply can’t stuff enough Jesus inside of you. He’s everywhere you look. His smiling face is […]
On Killer Joe And William Friedkin
William Friedkin has always been drawn to intense violence. One presumes this isn’t limited to his movies. He was a notorious asshole among assholes in the ‘70s, a decade marked […]
Baz Luhrmann Takes A Great Crapsby
Man, I should be getting paid for writing post titles like that! Or else put away in a very small, windowless room for the rest of my life. What’s inspired […]
Django, The Spaghetti Western
As with all things Quentin Tarantino, his new movie Django Unchained is inspired in some vague way by another movie, in this case the classic Italian spaghetti western Django […]
Scorsese’s Mean Streets
After film school, Martin Scorsese spent four years making his first feature, Who’s That Knocking At My Door? (’67), starring the then unknown Harvey Keitel. It didn’t make a splash. […]
Smurfs 2 Is Coming, I.e. Smurfette Becomes A Nymphomaniac
If you thought Hollywood could sink no lower into the filth in which it resides, you’ve got another think coming. Watch this preview for the so-called “children’s movie” Smurfs 2 […]
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Disaster
The Hobbit, as presented at 48fps* (i.e. high frame rate, HFR), marks the death of cinema. At least digital projection, depressing as it is, is being improved to the point […]
The Spy Who Bored Me
Are you kidding me? This is supposed to be Roger Moore’s best outing as James Bond? The Spy Who Loved Me (’77) is not anyone’s best outing as anything. To […]
Mind Control Double Feature #21: Aliens Watching Television
Since its invention, television has been hypnotizing all humans careless enough to glance toward its gaping maw of doom. It takes a strong will to look away from the pretty […]
Samsara, Baraka, Etcetera
There are shots in Samsara (’12) of places you can’t believe exist on Earth, like the stone temples in the jungles of Myanmar that look like a CGI landscape from […]
Star Trek Into The Darkness of The Star Wars Prequels?
Star Trek Into Darkness, with no colon in there, because it’s stupider this way, will be demolishing movie theaters next summer. Is it next summer? It’s sometime. I think we’re […]