Before Sunrise, Sunset, & Midnight
I like these movies much more than I thought I did. They’re about time, and time is interesting. It does things to people. We can’t help but make choices as […]
A Decidedly Ungenerous Review of Now You See Me
From the marketing, I had expected Now You See Me to be a thrilling tale about stage magicians who rob banks as some sort of master scheme to make Jesse Eisenberg […]
Mind Control Double Feature #45: Eviscerating The ’80s
If you had the pleasure, or lack thereof, of growing up in the ‘80s, or otherwise living through it in any conscious way, you might have noticed the greed, the […]
Keep Calm and Carrie On
Let’s play a game. I’ll give you the name of a film, and whether or not you’ve seen it, or read the book it’s based on, or sat through the […]
Four Movies To Look Forward To This Summer
There are times, usually every summer movie season, right about now, when one begins to lose hope for the future of film, when one’s brain begins to feel as if […]
The Towering Inferno And Other Past Disasters
It’s Memorial Day Weekend, folks, and movie-wise you know what that means: nothing but the biggest, loudest, most astrogivastantical epics ever conceived of by humankind will be on display at […]
Mind Control Double Feature #44: Kidnapped by Idiots
You know what almost never goes wrong? A good, old-fashioned kidnapping. Particularly in the movies. Yep. If I were a character in a movie — and I might be based […]
On Magic, Logic, Brains, And The Hollywood Spectacular
Taking a break last night from another typically explodey summer of billion dollar Hollywood spectaculars (that’s what the kids are calling movies today, right? “Spectaculars”? I try to keep up […]
Soderbergh Swag Sale
Oh jeez. Steven Soderbergh is selling off a bunch of stuff from his films, and art, and some weird moscatel-based booze, and t-shirts. Basically, I want one of everything because […]
A Field In England: Watch This Trailer Immediately
Ben Wheatley has made three movies prior to this one, Down Terrace, which I haven’t seen, Kill List, a reasonably compelling story of two hit men that gets weirder and […]
The Unmissable Fast & Furious 6
Fast cars, hot ninja vixens, giant exploding balls of muscle, tanks jumping over airplanes on crutches whilst whistling Dixie, Vin Diesel in a unitard oiled up and — defying the […]
Star Trek Into Darkness Explores Where the Sun Don’t Shine
Last night I saw Star Trek Into Darkness with the Supreme Being. This morning, I woke up to George Takei’s smiling mug on Facebook. And in between — listening to SB […]
Star Trek Into Darkness vs. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Way back when in that magical summer of ’82 the second Star Trek movie, The Wrath of Khan, opened. It was something of a reboot, despite that word not being […]
Mind Control Double Feature #43: Outsiders In The Big City
The big city. The simmering fleshpot. The lights, the people, the noise, the great towering cloudscratching skyscrapers! Its lure is age-old. As soon as there were cities, there were kids […]