Live-Blogging Ye Olde Oscars
9:00 – Like a corpse dragged from one grave to another because of the condos going up in what was once a convenient swamp, so too is this show dragged […]
Argo Is The Worst Movie of 2012
The worst movie, you say? Argo? The one poised to take home a Best Picture Oscar in two days, which you found to be a wholly inoffensive, exciting little diversion? […]
Mind Control Double Feature #31: How Not To Make A Movie
The best way to learn how not to make a movie is, nine times out of ten, to watch a movie. Lessons will be readily evident. For as many great […]
Donnie Darko Unexplained
There exists no better medium for approximating dreams than film. Dreams and movies work in images to tell a story or impart a feeling or remind your brain of something […]
Berberian Sound Studio & the Ghost in the Machine
I would like you to listen closely. That’s what Berberian Sound Studio—a new mind-warping creeper helmed by Peter Strickland—asks you to do. This is a dissociative sort of picture. One in which what […]
So Wrong It’s Right: Quentin Dupieux’s Wrong
The protagonist of Quentin Dupieux’s last film was a tire. It was a hostage drama (in which you were the hostage) and I thought it was excellently weird. This time […]
Mind Control Double Feature #30: Typecast
Today is Valentine’s Day and what could be more romantic than being pigeonholed? Now that I’ve written that sentence, I feel the need to clarify: ‘being pigeonholed’ isn’t, to my […]
Sightseers: The English Countryside, Romance, A Few Murders, And The World’s Biggest Pencil
Sightseers is the pleasant tale of a couple, Tina and Chris (Alice Lowe and Steve Oram, also the movie’s writers), who embark on a weeklong, romantic roadtrip across the English […]
The First Third of the Legend of Kaspar Hauser
I walked out of a film last night. The last time I did that was 1994. According to festival reviewers (SF Indie Fest and others), The Legend of Kaspar Hauser combines the […]
John Dies at the End and That’s Just the Beginning
Right now there is a completely avoidable tragedy afflicting untold millions of Americans. They do not have the chance to see Don Coscarelli’s John Dies at the End in a proper […]
Pootie Tang: Worst Movie Ever, Or Stealth Work Of Genius?
Pootie Tang (’01), written and directed by then mostly unknown and now hugely beloved and respected Louis C.K., was widely ignored and/or despised when it came out. Here’s a sampling […]
Animal House: The Good, The Bad, and the Otter
Do you know who is really funny? John Landis, that’s who. I was lucky enough to watch Animal House—Landis’ first studio film—last night with the man himself in attendance. (Thank […]
Mind Control Double Feature #29: Post-Apocalyptic Tragedy And Comedy
The future. We’re all going to be living in it any moment now. And we know exactly what to expect of it. No, not hover cars, teleportation, sleek rocketships, Moon […]
A New Monty Python (Sort Of) Movie On The Horizon
News of hope for the future: there’s a new Monty Pythonesque movie in the works, or so says Variety. With a script by Terry Jones that he’s been kicking around […]