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.
Category Archives: Active Observation
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.
2015: The Year In Movies In Haiku
For both the poetically minded and the short attention spanned among you.
Anomalisa Underwhelms
Stop-motion puppets bring Charlie Kaufman’s latest story of misery to depressing life.
Marnie, In Which Hitchcock Rapes His Audience
Late period Hitchcock is not for the weak of heart.
Lost in the Storm with The Hateful Eight
I think you should watch it on TV, late one drunken Saturday, and tell me what you think.
The Hateful Eight, Tarantino’s 70mm Western, Is A Real Movie
Neither cartoon nor meta-commentary on itself, The Hateful Eight is something crazier still: a good movie.
A Fraction of All That’s Wrong With Star Wars: The Force Awakens
In which our weary correspondent asks questions he wishes certain writers had asked before him.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Isn’t Your Father
Let Vader strike you down; it matters not.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, In Which The Empire Has A Great Idea—A Death Star! What Could Go Wrong?
I know, but hear me out–it’s a REALLY BIG Death Star, right? It’s just so, so, so BIG this time. You see? No way it blows up again. I promise.
Valerie And Her Week of Wonders: Vampiric Czech Surrealism
Plunge into an eastern European rabbit-hole, don’t forget your enchanted pearl, and watch out for chickens, priests, and polecats.
Amy, In Which The Life and Death of Amy Winehouse Will Depress The Fuck Out of You
A sad, sad story of an artist eaten alive.
Spotlight Commits Cardinal Sin
Spotlight is not nearly as thrilling as watching four people doing research and scribbling on wood-pulp paper can be.
Hitchcock/Truffaut, In Which A Book Is Brought To Life
A cinematic ode to a movie director’s ode to a movie director.