Why Does Anyone Care Who Directs A Star Wars Movie?
In today’s movie universes, directors are hired hands.
Category Archives: Active Observation
The Beguiled: Clint’s Weird Southern Gothic Horrorshow
What with a remake coming, it’s time to revisit the original.
Why Wonder Woman Works
Wonder Woman proves that female directors and female leads and female characters can do everything the boys can do, and better.
In Which Alien: Covenant Is Lamented
In the future, all scientists will be stupid.
The Character Who Isn’t There In The Man Who Wasn’t There
Can a character absent from his own life carry a movie?
Colossal: Half A Good Movie, Half A Head-Scratcher
In which we take a look at Nacho Vigalondo’s latest, and lament about half of it.
The Fate of the Furious Remains Unwritten
They are—these characters and these films—an incantation designed to bring about the age of stupid.
Free Fire Is A Blast
It’s the My Dinner With Andre of movie gunfights.
On THX 1138 And George Lucas’s Obsession With Erasing His Past
Next up: Lucas adds his famous, unfilmed Ron Howard alien abduction scene into American Graffiti. All original negatives will be burned.
Sharpen Your Claws: It’s Logan
If you like Logan, it’s because Wolverine finally gets to kill a lot of people.
The Evil Within & Son of Blob: On One and Done Directors
Disasters or unique works of outsider art? Your guess is as good as mine.
The Best & Worst Films of 2016
Movies are assholes.
Princess From The Moon: The ‘87 Japanese Sci-Fi Fairy Tale You’ve Been Dreaming Of
A strange and dreamy trip into a science fiction past.
Brief Thoughts on Three Well-Received Films
Some things to say about Manchester By the Sea, American Honey, and Hidden Figures.