The Best 3-D Movie You Haven’t Seen
I am not at all fond of 3-D movies. They don’t look more “real” to me. They don’t make me feel like I’m more immersed in the action. They tire […]
Mind Control Double Feature #28: Get Out Of the House!
I know; it’s easy to get trapped on the couch. You’ve got your blanky, and the dog curled up beside you, and your giant television playing a non-stop A-Team marathon. In […]
Shallow Thoughts On The Top Grossing Movies of 2012
January is Hollywood’s morgue. They wheel in the corpses of movies they wish they’d never made, bloated and bleeding, limbs missing, faces unrecognizable, and hope nobody notices the stink. […]
The 5 Most Insane Actor/Director Disasters
Some things cannot be contained. Frequently, this is hilarious. I’m talking about the ego of the shameless actor/director. You know who I mean. The guy (and yes, it’s usually a […]
The Side Effects of Steven Soderbergh
This week I was lucky enough to catch an early screening of Steven Soderbergh’s latest film, Side Effects. As regular readers will know, I’m a big fan of his. But going […]
Mind Control Double Feature #27: Film Noir Heists Gone Bad
What with the 11th annual Noir City festival coming up here in San Francisco (which I just wrote about here), I’ve got noir on the brain. Last week’s Evil Genius […]
New Coen Bros Trailer: Inside Llewyn Davis
I was just wondering what Joel and Ethan Coen were up to. It’s been awhile since True Grit. Their new one is called Inside Llewyn Davis, and it’s not a […]
Noir City Festival At The Castro
Do you live in the Bay Area? You are luckier than you know. For this weekend marks the beginning of the 11th annual Noir City film festival at the Castro […]
I Like to Watch Lovers Year-Round!
It has come to our attention through creatively spelled comments that some of you consider us ‘haters.’ To this we respond, pish posh. We’d been looking for a reason to […]
The Best Action Movies Of The ’80s
The best decade of movies managed to last fifteen years, from ’67 to ’82. It was a decade-plus of grim realism, anti-heroes, dark endings, and plotless character studies that existed […]
Malkovich Malkovich
When I first saw Being John Malkovich in ’99, I felt as though my brain had been violated in the same way Malkovich’s was in the movie. It was as […]
The Central Park Five
The really shocking thing about documentary The Central Park Five isn’t how completely these innocent kids were sewn up by the system, it’s that stories like this happen all the damn time. This one’s an excellent companion to The Queen of Versailles for a double-thick slice of fucked up America.
Mind Control Double Feature #26: Where Loyalties Lie
Holy shitballs! I am exceptionally happy to offer up this week’s Stand By For Mind Control Double Feature. Positively giddy! I’m like a schoolgirl with a throat full of bourbon bouncing […]
The Oscars: Hollywood’s Meat Parade Returns!
The best thing anyone ever said about the Oscars was said by George C. Scott, who put it thus: “The ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with […]