Soderbergh’s Behind The Candelabra Looks Kind Of Marvelous
Watching this trailer it’s awfully sad to think Steven Soderbergh won’t be directing any more movies. Matt Damon and Michael Douglas will be starring in more of them, but will […]
Interview With Andrew Sensenig, The Mysterious Sampler In Upstream Color
Upstream Color is the new movie by the writer/director Shane Carruth, whose last, and first, movie, Primer, came out back in ’04. Primer is an odd, unique movie about time […]
Mind Control Double Feature #37: Faux Heroes Save The Day
Here at the bustling Stand By For Mind Control laboratories we often like our movies intense, weird, dark, slow, depressing, and liable to leave permanent psychological scars. We like movies […]
A Royal Affair: Pawn Takes Queen
Objectively, Nikolaj Arcel’s A Royal Affair tells a fascinating tale of palace intrigue, the birth of the Enlightenment, treachery, insanity, and illicit sex. These are all things that I enjoy watching. I also […]
Exegesis Of A Genius: The Charlie Sheen Cinematic Oeuvre
(Following is an excerpt from Dr. Herman O. Gorvald’s upcoming work, Infinite Sheen And The Recursiveness of Being, which he has generously allowed us to publish, exclusively, for the delight […]
Giant, Deadly Piles of Spider Shat
Sometimes, you think up a headline for a blog post and you just have no choice but to use it. Also, sometimes (always) you are given the opportunity to see a […]
Mind Control Double Feature #36: Manimal!
I am not an animal. I am a human being. I am a man! As defiantly romantic as the above quote sounds, it just isn’t true. Men (and women) are, […]
Spring Breakers Broke My Brain
The more I think about it, the weirder Spring Breakers becomes. It is in no way a normal kind of movie. It is a Harmony Korine movie, and Harmony Korine […]
Stoker Will Crawl Up Your Skirt
I am a big fan of Park Chan-Wook‘s. Perhaps that makes me a Wookie? If so, I can live with that. His films—previously made in Korea in Korean—are bloody and […]
Mind Control Double Feature #35: Those Troublesome Irish Troubles
The trouble with Irish independence is the same trouble with independence sought by any peoples throughout history: you spend ten, twenty, a hundred, five hundred years murdering your oppressors, the […]
The Great Waldo Pepper’s Nostalgia Vortex
If I asked you to name that George Roy Hill film, you know, the one written by William Goldman and starring those two handsome dudes, Robert Redford and, uh, the […]
Moon Movies
The moon. What is it doing up there? Where did it come from? Who lives inside it? How did they get there? Why aren’t we digging inside it this very […]
Crood Awakening
Today I received the following email: Isn’t that amazing? I’m only disappointed that I wasn’t able to trek to this mysterious, Neolithic, monument to see it gussied up with new […]
Death By Backstory Part 2: Snake Plissken Edition
It is our present fate that every movie we once loved will soon be remade into something bland, unimaginative, and, in a tiny way we wouldn’t even notice save for […]