…Reflections On Dead Man…
…An acid western, a revisionist western, a post-modern western, the western Tarkovsky never made, Jim Jarmusch’s masterpiece, Dead Man (’95), has been dubbed many things. It is best not to […]
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“I Am The Motherfucking Shore Patrol!” Hal Ashby And The Last Detail
The Last Detail (’73), director Hal Ashby’s follow-up to Harold & Maude, is a mysteriously compelling little movie. There’s not a dull moment in it, yet nothing happens. Ashby and […]
Mind Control Double Feature #19: 1980s Film Noir
Film noir isn’t all 1940s, black hats, deep shadows, back-stabbing women, desperate criminals, and the hopeless futility of trying to escape one’s fate. It’s mostly that, which is why film […]
On Lincoln, Spielberg, And Crushing Boredom
One of the inconcievably vast number of brain-rapingly awful things about Indiana Jones And The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull was Steven Spielberg’s boring direction, evident in every boring frame […]
Hal Ashby And Bound For Glory
Speaking of directors with unbroken strings of great movies, does anyone top Hal Ashby in the ’70s? In order, he made Harold & Maude, The Last Detail, Shampoo, Bound For […]
Mind Control Double Feature #17: In Which Helen Mirren Gets Naked And Screws
Now let’s not be offended by my search-engine-humping title there. Helen Mirren, as I trust you’re all aware, is and always has been a fantastic actress. She’s also always been […]
Who Goes There?, The Thing From Another World, The Thing, And The Thing
In 1938 John W. Campbell wrote a creepy as all hell science fiction story titled Who Goes There?, about a team in the arctic who discovers a spaceship they estimate […]
From The “Well What Did You Expect? The Coen Brothers?” File: Michael Arndt To Write New Star Wars Movie For Disney
The thing that drives me most insane about new Star Wars movies and George Lucas and those last three abominations is the very fact that it drives me insane. Damn […]
Skyfall vs. Moonraker
Skyfall, the 23rd James Bond movie in 50 years, is out, and people are calling it one of the best. It’s been raking in cash all over the world for […]
After Hours: Martin Scorsese’s Best Movie?
I know what you’re thinking, regarding the title of this post, and it is “no.” You’re thinking maybe I’ve never heard of Raging Bull or Taxi Driver or Goodfellas. You […]
Mind Control Double Feature #15: Vampire And Zombie Apocalypse!
What with Halloween on the brain, I can’t help but find myself thinking about zombies eating brains, and so, if you’re still in a cold, wintry, demonic kind of mood, […]
A New Trailer For John Dies At The End, A Movie You Would Be Wise To See
Your dedicated Stand By For Mind Control editors had the chance to see Don Coscarelli’s new movie John Dies At The End a few months back (he of Phantasm and […]
In Which I Ponder Three Viewings Of Fight Club
I will say this about Fight Club: it is an interesting movie. Putting it far ahead of most of what gets made. I saw it when it first came out […]
The Great (Cartoon) Showdowns
I came across this site today, which seems to have been around and crazily popular for a couple of years, but what the hell, better late than never. It’s a […]