Let’s Get Utterly Alien: Annihilation, Stalker, and Solaris
There have been all too few films that have addressed the utterly alien in a way that’s even vaguely adequate.
Kevin Smith Hates Movies
But he keeps on making them, and when critics savage them, claims he’s not a director. Go figure.
Art and Craft Boldly Forges Ahead
Landis, like a cross between James Carville and unspooled gauze, could not be more fascinating or authentic.
10 Secrets About The Boxtrolls
This film is perfect for your kids, who, if you didn’t take them to the movies, would likely be down by the river poking some dead thing with a stick.
In Which I Review The First 19 Minutes of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
A penetrating look at what may, or, let’s not be coy here, may not, be the most important 19 minutes in the history of film.
Night Moves: Jesse Eisenberg In A 2013 Indie Thriller You Forgot To See
To blow up that damned dam or let that dammed river be?
10 ways Return of the Jedi could have been better while still including Ewoks
Even without tossing the ewoks into an incinerator, Jedi could be ten times better than it is. Allow us to suggest how.
Indelible Images in A Place in the Sun and Zeroville
There is an image you cannot scrape from behind your eyes. It is a flash from a film, from something you dreamed, from a place unnamed and unknown.
Night Moves: Gene Hackman In A ‘70s Noir You Forgot Exists
The private eye flick turned into a bleak reflection of 1970s paranoia and loneliness.
I Saw the Devil and He Looks Like You
Look and squirm at the gorgeous grotesque.
Why The Fight Scene Matters In John Carpenter’s They Live
Oh, it’s long, this fight scene, but it is so much more.
The Drop Falls Flat
There’s a new film out, written by Dennis Lehane, novelist behind Mystic River and Shutter Island and Gone Baby Gone. It stars Tom Hardy and the late, great James Gandolfini, and Noomi Rapace. […]
The Dog: The True Story of Dog Day Afternoon
The life story of one-time famous bank robber, John Wojtowicz, played by Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon, is exactly as outrageous as you want it to be.
High School Confidential! Tomorrow Is A Drag, Pops, The Future Is A Flake
Turn your eyes inside and dig the vacuum.