The Best Movies of 2018, and A Bunch More Besides
So many movies, so little time, so few brain cells.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Does Whatever a Whole Bunch of Spiders Can
Do we need this many spider people? Come inside and I will tell you.
Widows Wilts
A heist half-baked is no heist at all.
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, In Which The Coens Dust Off a Sextet of Death
The old west, Coens style.
Hopper’s The Last Movie Exhumed
Spoiler: turns out it was not, in fact, the last movie. It is, however, pretty dang nutty.
The Old West Oddness of The Sisters Brothers
A warmly weird little western you may enjoy.
A Few Words on Eighth Grade and Realism
A movie so real it could only be a movie.
Mind Control Double Feature #111: Listen! Do You Smell Something?
Please prepare your noses for active cinematic duty.
Jake’s Journey: The Hal Ashby / Graham Chapman TV Show That Wasn’t
Death did the show in, leaving it languishing in the misty-mists of misty-pre-internet-nowhere.
Hal: A Documentary That Proves Hal Ashby Loved Me Best
In which we get closer to answers and insights regarding one of the best—and least discussed—directors.
Love Gilda, but Didn’t Love Love, Gilda
Spoiler alert: she dies.
Mind Control Double Feature #110: Oh, The Humanity!
Woe be we when sentient computers go human.
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.
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone Is All You Dreamed
“I’m getting too old for this shit.”