Mind Control Double Feature #93: Of Trains And Men
What’s that? You got in a fight? And you won? That’s very impressive of you. Whom did you fight? Was it—a human being? Yawn. A real man doesn’t fight other men. He fights trains.
Once Again, They Are Making The Wrong Star Wars Movie
If someone would announce a Star Wars movie that took place during the original war that had no episode number and no mention of a Skywalker, then I would get excited.
Best of Bay Area Film — May 2014
April showers bring May flowers. May flowers be enough to make up for my recommending you see the latest remake of Godzilla.
Going Ape #2: Beneath The Planet Of The Apes
In which I venture into the first of The Planet of The Apes sequels, and do not emerge unscathed.
SFIFF Insight: How Coherence Doesn’t End
If you haven’t seen Coherence, don’t read most of this article.
SFIFF Opening Night: The Two Faces of January
That’s Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, and Oscar Isaac acting squiggly throughout the scenic Mediterranean.
Sorcerer: Friedkin’s Flop Revisited
Sorcerer, William Friedkin’s gritty, arty, ’77 remake of the classic ’53 French action movie, The Wages of Fear, had the misfortune to open one month after Star Wars.
Mind Control Double Feature #92: How to Get Away with Practically Nothing
All I want is one lousy priceless diamond of international significance. Is that too much to ask?
SFIFF Preview: Trap Street
The innocuous looking and sounding Forest Lane is quite real. It’s the maps that pull the wool.
SFIFF Preview: Harmony Lessons, And Musings On Film Festival Films As A Genre
In which, by way of SFIFF entry Harmony Lessons, I ponder the film festival drama as its own genre, one I may have no business opining upon.
Going Ape #1: Planet Of The Apes – The Original
“Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!”
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift Off to Sleep
A race! Over a girl! I wonder how it will end?
Mind Control Double Feature #91: Killer Plants!
They’re everywhere. Waiting. Watching. Rustling in the breeze. Flowering, some of them, the dirty bastards. Plants. Shrubs, trees, perennials, grass. Everywhere you look. Biding their sweet time. Shrug off the […]
On Under The Skin, Scarlett Johansson, And Other Naked Space Vampires
There’s little under the skin of Under The Skin. It’s a movie as visual and auditory experiment.