Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: Not Half as Bad as It Used to Be
Once hated, now–kinda loved! It’s the demonic cartoon you never knew you wanted.
Category Archives: I Like to Watch
Raiders of the Lost Ark: In Which We Recall Falling in Love With Indiana Jones
Still good? Still good.
Dueling Volcano Docs: The Fire Within vs. Fire of Love
In which we throw two documentaries into a fiery, erupting volcano that we may watch them fight it out.
Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future Returns Him to His Past
Come on everybody! Let’s all get our new homegrown internal organs tattooed!
In Which the Original Star Wars, via Project 4K77, is Reconsidered
I have seen the future, and it is the past.
The 26 Best Movies of the 2010s, AKA the Twenty-Teens, AKA that Last Decade We Just Muddled Through
A list! A list! Hooray, a list!
63 Up, or: Still Above Ground (Mostly)
Time continues to get wider in Michael Apted’s lifelong documentary project.
Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is Better than You’ve Been Led to Believe
It’s all Gilliam, after all, and what more do you want in a movie?
Lone Wolf and Cub and The Art of Fatherhood
In which I learn that raising a baby is more complicated than at first I supposed.
Baby It’s You, John Sayles’s Un-‘80s ‘80s High School Movie
An ’80s high school movie not like the other ’80s high school movies.
The Beach Bum Has It Figured Out (Unless He Doesn’t)
In which Harmony Korine returns to befuddle and amuse you.
John McEnroe: In The Realm of Perfection, In Which Tennis Is Fiction
A pleasurably peculiar documentary about the intersection of film and tennis, of lies and truth, of McEnroe and clay.
BlacKkKlansman Sets History On Fire
Spike Lee’s period piece fights its way into the present and kicks you in the face.
Filmworker: On Leon Vitali, The Man Behind Kubrick
You like Kubrick? Leon Vitali likes him more.