The Babadook: This Is How You Scare People
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Category Archives: I Like to Watch
Anatomy of Anatomy of A Murder
The practice of law sure ain’t pretty. This is one deeply twisted movie no one comes out of with clean hands.
Short Cuts: Robert Altman’s Final Masterpiece
The last shot of Short Cuts is of four people in clown makeup, smeared from a night of drinking and hot-tubbing, sucking on lemon slices and laughing. It’s the whole movie summed up in a single image.
The Fly: Cronenberg’s Romance In Gloop
Cronenberg tells a passionate, tragic love story. With a giant fly monster. And everybody loves it.
Nightcrawler Is The Best Kind of Creepy
A film noir, a horror movie, a satire, this movie’s got all kinds of things going for it. See it before it disappears.
A Bucket of Blood: Roger Corman’s Beatnik Murder Comedy
Given $50,000, leftover sets from a high school movie, and five days to shoot by American International Pictures, could Roger Corman direct a horror movie?
Ali: Fear Eats The Soul – A Weird Name For A Great Movie
Rainer Werner Fassbinder is one of the more colorful directors in movie history. To put it mildly. To put it another way, he was a madman.
All That Heaven Allows – And Then Some
In which Douglas Sirk gets away with subversive, melodramatic murder. His victim: the ’50s.
A Most Wanted Man: In Which Philip Seymour Hoffman Comes To An End
A tightly wound, slow-burning spy flick, in which Philip Seymour Hoffman gives the kind of performance you wish like hell he was around to keep on giving.
Boyhood, In Which Time Is The Star
Richard Linklater gathers up time and turns it into a movie you’re going to have to see.
A Hard Day’s Night Is Really Good, And Other Stunning Beatles Revelations
I think this band could really make it big.
Gremlins Will Eat Your Face
Joe Dante’s 1984 Christmas movie, Gremlins, is the funniest, bleakest, most horrific kids’ movie ever made. In fact it may be the only horror movie for kids I can think of.
Going Back To Back To The Future
One needn’t go very far out on a limb to say that Back To The Future is a fun movie. You could say it without so much as climbing a tree in the first place.
I Like Two-Lane Blacktop
Do you like it too? Or do you think you might want to like it? Come on inside and we’ll have a nice chat about it.