The Pull of Gravity
It is inevitable. What goes up must come down. That is the effect of Gravity, the new film from Alfonso Cuarón—director of the stunning Children of Men—starring America’s sweethearts Sandra Bullock, George […]
Mind Control Double Feature #63: Of Ancient Myths And Little Girls
What is it about little girls? They’re spooky. Headstrong. Probably possessed by spirits or intergalactic alien intelligences. Like cats, they’re entirely too curious. They’re the epitome of innocence. Yet they […]
Shame and Lost Highway are not Good
And so here you find me, scouring the internet, looking for a copy of the generally unavailable 1950 film noir, Shakedown. The Supreme Being saw it at a Noir City screening […]
Ron Howard’s Rush Is A Good Movie–Also, Pigs Seen Flying Over Icy Frozen Hellscape
It’s not often I go around seeing, let alone enjoying, films directed by Ron Howard, but what do you know, Rush is a mostly enjoyable movie, stylish and well-made.
Breaking Bad Recap: Season 5, Episode 16 – Felina
And so, with an ambiguous ending as strange as the Twin Peaks finale and as open to interpretation as The Sopranos–
Soylent Green Is Made Out of [SPOILER]! It’s [SPOILER]!
If you’re one of the few culturally closeted peopled left in the world who doesn’t know that Soylent Green might contain other ingredients aside from high-energy oceanic plankton, you might […]
Mind Control Double Feature #62: Fatal Mistakes
Uh oh.
What I Learned In The Blackboard Jungle
You think teenagers are trouble today, you should have seen them in 1955, back when they were invented.
Breaking Bad Recap: Season 5, Episode 15 – Granite State
After last week’s 47 minutes of pure insanity, it was a given that “Granite State,” the penultimate episode of Breaking Bad, would settle down to the normal level of heart-attack inducing tension we expect on a week to week basis.
Short Term 12 Cleans Out Your Mind Holes
I lost track of how many times I cried watching Destin Daniel Cretton’s Short Term 12. I’d heard good things—it won both the Grand Jury Narrative Feature Award and the Narrative Audience […]
Mind Control Double Feature #61: The Big Con
I’m the Supreme Being, not a historian, and am therefore unqualified to say why there is no figure more revered in the annals of United States history than the con […]
The Fairly Great Escape
Last night’s viewing: The Great Escape. John Sturges’ three-hour adventure film is a fondly-recalled boyhood favorite and true story of Nazi-needling bravura. Like Sturges’ other earlier blockbuster, The Magnificent Seven, this is a […]
Cronenberg’s Scanners Will Blow Up Your Head
Scanners (’81) is a very strange movie. It’s renowned for a scene—originally supposed to open the film—wherein Michael Ironside, as the evil scanner Darryl Revok, sits on a panel before […]
Ringu Round the Rosie
Have you seen The Ring (Ringu)? If so, then you shall surely die in a week, unless you force someone else to suffer through this bizarre series of disquieting images […]