A Poem Is A Naked Person: In Which Les Blank Wanders Around With Leon Russell
A painterly documentary about Leon Russell finally sees the light of day.
Category Archives: Active Observation
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse Is Going to Travel Through Time to Skull F*** You
Gunfights. Exploding buildings. Car chases. Murder. Insanity. One tough cop and one diabolical, unstoppable criminal mastermind — perhaps the world’s first super villain. And all this in 1933, thanks to Fritz Lang.
Dope: Risky Business in South Central
If Princeton needs men like Joel, then Harvard needs men like Malcolm, Hollywood needs men like Famuyiwa, and America needs to kick itself into shape, take a long look in the mirror, and demand an answer to the question: ‘what the fuck?’
Inside Out: Pixar Gets Its Mojo Working
Pixar’s best movie in years is both impressively weird and likely to leave you in tears.
Love & Mercy & The Wrecking Crew
A bio-pic on Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys, and a doc on the musicians who made The Beach Boys–and almost every other band in the ’60s–sound so great.
Virunga: A Depressing Tale of Guns and Gorillas
Who needs gorillas when there’s oil to be drilled for and minerals to be dug up?
Orgy of The Blood Parasites! On Slither, Shivers, and Night of The Creeps
In which deadly alien slug monsters take over the world.
We Need More Rip-Offs and Fewer Reboots and Remakes
Death to reboots and remakes! Let’s go back to ripping off classics and calling them our own.
Kung Fury: The Best Dollar You Didn’t Spend
Kung Fury is, in the end, something. And it is something you can watch in just half an hour. Might as well get it over with.
Skidoo To You Too
Otto Preminger’s “comedy” from 1968. Underground classic or brain-curdling turd?
Sleepless Night Slams You Against the Tarmac
If you’d like a compact pill of tension: Sleepless Night.
Montage of Heck & Heaven Adores You: In Which Musical Suicides Kurt Cobain and Elliott Smith Are Exhumed
One of these docs invites you in, the other one shoves you out.
Disney’s The Black Hole: Like Stupid But Stupider
If Disney’s 1979 “science fiction” movie, The Black Hole, were any stupider, it would collapse in on itself and the take the entire universe with it.
About Elly: Solving the Mystery of Yourself
A bitter ending is better than an endless bitterness.