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 […]
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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 […]
Looper: Dumbest Time Travel Movie Since Timecop?
Timecop, the Jean-Claude Van Damme time travel movie beloved by, er, no, sorry, forgotten by everyone, contains my favorite worst-ever time-travel-movie-moment ever, where Van Damme is brought to the warehouse […]
A Separation
When one is in the mood to rent a movie, it’s not often one thinks, “I would love to watch a two hour Iranian slice-of-life film,” when what one normally […]
Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master Will Drink Your Milkshake
There’s a scene early on in Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie The Master where Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix), having inadvertently poisoned an old man with his dubious, self-distilled, paint-thinner-based moonshine, […]
Dollars, A Movie You’re Lucky Never To Have Seen
Goldie and Warren, why are you robbing that bank? Take that ridiculous fireman’s hat off. Look out! Germans! Do not view this movie. Watch Shampoo instead.
Mind Control Double Feature #9: White Hot Atomic Death Edition
Now that I’ve got death by nuclear or atomic blasts on the mind, thanks to having re-watched Miracle Mile the other day, let’s travel into the surreal world of mysterious […]
From The Annals of Forgotten Films: Miracle Mile
Nuclear devastation was big in the ‘80s. What with that son of a bitch Reagan in the White House daily taunting the Soviets, everyone pretty much assumed we’d be vaporized […]
The 10 Best Woody Allen Movies
Woody Allen has been traipsing all over San Francisco lately, filming his 137th feature film, which at best will not completely suck, and at worst will completely suck. I’m sure […]
Mind Control Double Feature #7: What Is The Law?
As is so often the case with the great ideas of science fiction, H.G. Wells got there first. His 1896 book The Island of Dr. Moreau features animal vivisection and […]