Mind Control Double Feature #84: In the Mood
Hey there sweet thing. Let me light some candles. Put a little Marvin Gaye on the hi-fi. Fill up our pockets with cereal. Let me do whatever I can to get you in the mood.
Harold Ramis: He Was The Ball
I was a lucky child. Where I grew up, in Palo Alto, we had The New Varsity Theater, a rep movie house that showed double and triple bills covering the […]
Big Sky Film Festival Wrap-Up: Two Docs You Need To See
In the book Introduction To Documentary, author Bill Nichols makes a bold statement: all movies are documentaries. From here he cleaves the mass into two big categories: documentaries of wish […]
Cutting Humor: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre on First Viewing
There is nothing quite so funny as an uncoordinated fat man wearing a Mrs. Howell mask chasing a screaming blonde around the yard while he’s wielding a raised chainsaw.
Fighting The Rumble Fish
You want to talk odd kettles of fish, colorful Siamese fighting fish, even, you should take a look at Rumble Fish.
Mind Control Double Feature #83: They’re Coming To Get You
In which we travel to 1970s San Francisco and experience a profound and inescapable paranoia.
Mind Control Double Feature #Bonus: Make it a Double Feature
In case you hadn’t noticed its appearance in our blogroll, the excellent Make it a Double… Feature is a blog D. writes that collects double feature ideas that are as excellent as […]
Revenge of The Nerds: The Uplifting ‘80s Antidote To Animal House
In which we look more deeply into Revenge of The Nerds than one would think advisable.
True Detective is (Cardiac) Arresting
I totally understand. If you told me that there was yet another television show about some madhouse serial killer and the resolute and colorful detectives who track him down—and that […]
Mind Control Double Feature #82: Paranoid Android
It is very difficult to determine with absolute certainty whether or not you are part machine.
A Field In England: Circular 17th Century Psychedelia
Somewhere in England, during the English Civil War, on the far side of a hedgerow, in a field, three soldiers and an alchemist’s assistant leave the battle in search of an alehouse.
The Congress: Robin In Wacky-Land
Tell me there’s a new independent movie that’s half live-action, half animation, abrim with social commentary, and based on a story by funny/brilliant Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem, and I am going to see that movie
The Lego Movie: Like a Ton of Bricks
From the headlines it seems that The Lego Movie is going over like a ton of bricks. Assuming that you love bricks, which you probably do if you’re curious about The Lego Movie.
Mind Control Double Feature #81: Burning The Midnight Oil
Of desperate men and burning landscapes, imagined and real.