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Category Archives: Active Observation

Wagner at the Movies

November 6, 2012by Not Entirely Dim 13 Comments

Books could be written, and probably have been, about the likely hundreds of uses of Richard Wagner‘s music in movies. People have to write books about something. (Okay, I looked it up […]

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Active Observation, I Like to Listen

After Hours: Martin Scorsese’s Best Movie?

November 5, 2012by Supreme Being 13 Comments

I know what you’re thinking, regarding the title of this post, and it is “no.” You’re thinking maybe I’ve never heard of Raging Bull or Taxi Driver or Goodfellas. You […]

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Active Observation, I Like to Watch

In Which I Ponder Three Viewings Of Fight Club

October 26, 2012by Supreme Being Leave a comment

I will say this about Fight Club: it is an interesting movie. Putting it far ahead of most of what gets made. I saw it when it first came out […]

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Active Observation

A True-True Cloud Atlas Review Yarned Across Time and Space

October 22, 2012by Evil Genius 6 Comments

Recently, your valiant Stand By For Mind Control editors attended an early screening of Cloud Atlas, the new film by the Wachowskis and Tom Twyker. We thought it would be […]

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Active Observation

The Italian Job: What The Hell Kind of Ending Is That?

October 10, 2012by Supreme Being 8 Comments

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 […]

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Active Observation

Children of Men: The Defining Film of The Aughts

October 9, 2012by Supreme Being 7 Comments

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 […]

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Active Observation, Best Of Mind Control, I Like to Watch

Why Looper’s Nonsense is Intense

October 2, 2012by Evil Genius 2 Comments

There has been a lot said about time travel lately, on this blog and around the web. Too much, maybe. Definitely. But you can’t stop me. And I want to […]

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Active Observation, FILMS:COOL

Looper: Dumbest Time Travel Movie Since Timecop?

September 30, 2012by Supreme Being 32 Comments

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 […]

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Active Observation

Looper: All Loose Ends

September 28, 2012by Evil Genius 29 Comments

While it pains me greatly to say so, Looper was vastly disappointing. One of the things that I’d really come to love about Rian Johnson’s writing and directing through our Looper Prep […]

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Active Observation, FILMS:COOL

A Separation

September 28, 2012by Supreme Being 1 Comment

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 […]

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Active Observation

Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master Will Drink Your Milkshake

September 25, 2012by Supreme Being 7 Comments

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, […]

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Active Observation

Risky Business: I Say ‘What the Fuck’

September 19, 2012by Evil Genius 10 Comments

When Risky Business ended at the Castro Theater tonight, those I watched it with started talking about how Joel—Tom Cruise’s character—was a lousy person. Everyone in the film, they said, […]

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Active Observation, I Like to Watch

The 10 Best Woody Allen Movies

September 13, 2012by Supreme Being 8 Comments

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 […]

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10 Somethingest Somethings, Active Observation

Fast Times At Ridgemont High: Weirder Than You Remember

September 6, 2012by Supreme Being 5 Comments

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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