Fast Times At Ridgemont High: Weirder Than You Remember
Imagine making a movie set in high school today where one of your main characters is a 15 year old freshman girl who, in the first ten minutes, loses her […]
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Lovers On The Lam
Americans love criminals. Something to do with the old west, or anyway the idea of the old west, of gunslingers roaming free across endless stretches of unexplored country, killing to […]
Compliance Will Mess You Up But Good
Compliance, opening today, is one of the most disturbing movies I’ve ever sat through. I’ve never felt more uncomfortably ill watching anything, and I’ve seen everything directed by Kevin Costner. […]
Mind Control Double Feature #5: Back To School Edition
It’s back to school time, kids! The smell of chalk dust is in the air, mom just bought you a new wardrobe at JC Penney’s, and hey! Look at that! […]
Drive, He Said, To A Theater Showing A Different Movie
Jack Nicholson’s forgotten ’71 debut as a director, Drive, He Said, also co-written by Nicholson, was forgotten for a reason: it’s really quite awful.
The 10 Best Soundtracks for Obsessive Listening
Movie soundtracks come in many forms. I’m here to talk about one type in particular: original scores, that is, music composed specifically for a given movie, as opposed to scores […]
Mind Control Double Feature #3: This Time With Feeling
What’s that there? On the horizon? Growing ever larger and hairier and toothier? Is it a demon from hell? Is it a monster from space? It is a very angry […]
Kane Rant
I saw a beautiful 35mm print of Citizen Kane at the Castro Theatre the other day, hadn’t seen it for many years, and while I realize saying this makes me […]
Sight & Sound’s Decennial Movie Monkeyshines
Oh, it’s on, people! Sight & Sound’s decennial list of the greatest 10 movies ever, as voted on by hordes of fancy-pants critics, has arrived, and Citizen Kane just got […]
Cloud Atlas Considered
And now for your viewing pleasure, check out this unusually long trailer for the upcoming Cloud Atlas, which I can’t embed because Apple is mean that way. A bit odd, […]
Mind Control Double Feature #1
Thrills! Chills! Flying monkeys! Giant flies! Talking plants! All this and more awaits you in Stand By For Mind Control’s latest evil plot to control your minds through the viewing […]
Like A Bad Soufflé, The Dark Knight Rises Falls Flat
(Very mucho SPOILERS-O-RAMA throughout, should you be concerned about such things) What with all of our Dark Knight talk these past weeks, I figured I should say something now […]
In Which I Pontificate Semi-Coherently on Film Criticism
There was a time when movie reviews meant something. That time is not now. Movie reviews today exist purely to voice an opinion such that it may be combined with […]
In Praise of Bad Movies
Bad movies get a bad rap. It’s said they’re incompetent, meaningless, embarassing, written in a day by a lone monkey on a single typewriter, directed by escaped mental patients, acted […]