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 […]
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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 […]
Mind Control Double Feature #13: Unabashed Trash
There comes a time in all our movie-watching lives, or for some of you, perhaps, there rarely does not come a time, when all we want to watch is some […]
The 10 Best Books About Movies (That I Just Came Up With This Afternoon)
Books. You’ve heard of them. Some of your favorite movies are based on them. Why not read one? Or ten? I know, it feels like a crime to go around […]
Hysteria: Better When It Was A Def Leppard Album
And I don’t even like Def Leppard! I was going to say that at least Hysteria the movie has more female orgasms per minute, but on second thought, I bet […]
The Italian Job: What The Hell Kind of Ending Is That?
No, not that crappy remake, the original from ’69, with Michael Caine, who even back in the ‘60s managed to star in like nine movies a year, and who because […]
Children of Men: The Defining Film of The Aughts
When I first saw the trailer for Children of Men in late ’06, I thought it looked like yet another standard issue end of the world action flick. I had […]
Mind Control Double Feature #11: Stop-Motion Monster Fight!
I await with trepidation the latest Tim Burton movie, Frankenweenie, a feature-length adaptation of Burton’s own short from ’84. Word is it’s not actually as bad as everything else Burton […]