Breaking Bad Recap: Season 5, Episode 11 – Confessions
I have a confession. When the Supreme Being asked me to fill in for him on his regular Breaking Bad Recap column, I wasn’t enthused. I mean: he’s been doing […]
Hollywood Experiences A Hijacking
The new Danish film, A Hijacking (Kapringen), which I watched last night, seems like the mirror image of the upcoming Paul Greengrass / Tom Hanks film Captain Phillips. In the expensive Hollywood […]
Zapata Está Muerto; Viva Zapata!
Starring Marlon Brandon. Directed by Elia Kazan. A story of an aspiring hero overcoming his corrupted brother to lead his community to freedom from tyranny. I speak, of course, of Viva […]
Mind Control Double Feature #57: The Life of The Boxer
The life of the boxer is a fabled one. Hard luck guys scrabbling to better themselves the only way they know how. Harder luck guys never making it at all. Guys bought by mobsters to take a fall. Guys too hard-headed to take the fall shot dead by said mobsters.
Cinema Verité and the Reality Infection
It pains me to admit it, but I enjoy watching reality television. The Bachelor has long been a source of fascination for me, and when I have an extra hour […]
Old-Timey Sci-Fi Craziness: H.G. Wells’ Things To Come
So much time, so few movies. Wait. Reverse that. Watching H.G. Wells’ Things To Come for the first time, I wondered how I’d gone so long without seeing it. It’s […]
Breaking Bad Recap: Season 5, Episode 10 – Buried
“Am I under arrest?”
The Act of Killing is Easy
Killing is not a difficult act to accomplish. There are countless ways to get the job done. Be they bloody or tidy, quick or prolonged, sadistic or unfeeling—most murders are […]
Coming Soon: A Remake of Unforgiven
It’s a hell of a thing, remaking a famous movie.
Mind Control Double Feature #56: Outside the Box
Thinking outside the box isn’t that hard to do. You just scratch a small hole in the box, poke your thinking appendage through, and think away. No big deal. I […]
5 Fun Facts About Elysium
In a fabricated future world like Elysium‘s, making up facts and defending their veracity without a drop of supporting data is perfectly acceptable. That’s a fact. It’s also a fact that […]
Breaking Bad Recap: Season 5, Episode 9 – Blood Money
“If you don’t know who I am, maybe your best course of action is to tread lightly.”
Worst Double Feature Ever: The Canyons And Elysium
With my brain addled and befuzzed by a vague illness on Friday, I allowed myself to see, within a few scant hours of one another, the newly released movies Elysium […]
Breaking Bad Revisited: Season 5, Episodes 7 & 8
“Let me die in peace.”