Hard To Be A God, Especially When You’re Covered In Muck
Russian sci-fi by way of the middle ages. Enter at your own risk.
Category Archives: Active Observation
An Ode to the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
Rend your rictus with screams of inchoate rage and explode my face with eldritch fire. I love you Stay Puft.
10 Cloverfield Lame. I Mean Lame. LANE. Sorry.
A sequel that isn’t a sequel you may or may not find lacking.
Hearts And Minds And How To Lose Them
The classic Vietnam War documentary will make you very sad and angry.
The Lobster: Love It or Else
It would be strange to completely love The Lobster, even if your other choice is to become one.
The Witch, In Which Satan Messes With The Puritans
Goats, rabbits, broomsticks, and other horrors of 17th century New England.
The Swimmer Dives Deep Into The Surreal
Go ahead: take off your pants and jump in. This is going to get weird.
Go Bat-Shit Crazy with Vampire’s Kiss
There is no escaping some kinds of crazy.
Looking for Transcendence at Sundance 2016
Does the Internet dream of itself? This tag line for Werner Herzog’s new documentary could hardly have been more alluring, and as it stared up at me from my program while waiting in […]
Hail, Caesar!, The Coens’ Latest Divertissement
Prepare to be lightly amused.
You Didn’t See Chi-Raq? That’s Why #OscarsSoWhite
An article you’ll stop reading well before I get to my review of Chi-Raq, a film which is worth watching.
In Which I Return To The Return of The Living Dead
Send more paramedics.
Tangerine Dream Meets Tangerine Reality
Tangerine is a Tom Waits song or a Bukowski novel. It is a tale that makes you feel and care and know subjects normally considered too marginal for your attention.
The Look of Silence is Indelible and Deafening
Scrape the cholesterol from the hardened arteries of cinema, to make its heart — and yours — beat with frightening vigor.