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.”
Let the Corpses Tan, and Gold, and Sparkle, and Melt
The next time I say, “Let’s go someplace like Bolivia,” let’s go someplace like Bolivia.
BlacKkKlansman Sets History On Fire
Spike Lee’s period piece fights its way into the present and kicks you in the face.