Toy Story: The Untold History
Digging deep into the lost origins of the animated classic.
Category Archives: Best Of Mind Control
The Fate of the Furious Remains Unwritten
They are—these characters and these films—an incantation designed to bring about the age of stupid.
The Woman Chaser: The Best Movie You’ve Never Seen
But you will see it. Because I insist that you do.
The Revenant Wants You Dead
Go see The Revenant with your dead son.
Can The Martian Rescue Ridley Scott?
Nothing ever happens on Mars, even if you’re Matt Damon.
Orgy of The Blood Parasites! On Slither, Shivers, and Night of The Creeps
In which deadly alien slug monsters take over the world.
Put The Bunny Back In The Box: The 10 Best Nicolas Cage Films
I’m not going to say that Nicolas Cage is the best actor of his generation. I am going to say he’s the strangest. Nicolas Cage is his own genre. Nic Cage is a nouveau shaman.
Inside Llewyn Davis Is a Lament: Understanding the Film
A good portion of audiences and critics left the Coen Brothers’ latest, Inside Llewyn Davis, feeling cold—and not just because of the brooding cinematography and icy landscapes. Beautiful, they called it, […]
The French Connection and Relentless Pursuit
Take a look at Popeye Doyle. He’s got a hunch. His hunch says that table is wrong, the one in the corner, the guy with the striped shirt and the […]
Full Metal Jacket: Death, Duality, and Donuts
I adore Full Metal Jacket even though it is, clearly, a difficult film to keep company with. The film is not Stanley Kubrick’s most cohesive effort or his most accessible. It is, […]
Upstream Color Will Crawl Inside You And Take Over Your Brain
It’s been a long time, too long, since my brain has been as weirdly and intensely affected by a new movie as it was last night at a screening of […]
In Which The Last Picture Show Reminds Me Why I Love Movies
Wind blows dust and leaves through a small Texas town. Everything is fading, everything is dying. Cracked, dirty windows obscure the view. The pool hall is empty, its screen door […]
Zero (Awareness) Dark (Hopes) Thirty (-Thousand Foot View)
I went to see Zero Dark Thirty on Friday with the Supreme Being. Since then, he’s written an excellently insightful review of what director Kathryn Bigelow did with the film. I’ve […]
Children of Men: The Defining Film of The Aughts
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 […]