Django’s Unchained Melody
What can be intelligently said about Django Unchained? If we leave aside all of the fanboy love and the howls of the haters, what sense remains? Is this what you […]
Mind Control Double Feature #23: Holiday Fun Without Jesus!
It’s the holiday season, and if you’re like me, when December rolls around, you simply can’t stuff enough Jesus inside of you. He’s everywhere you look. His smiling face is […]
On Killer Joe And William Friedkin
William Friedkin has always been drawn to intense violence. One presumes this isn’t limited to his movies. He was a notorious asshole among assholes in the ‘70s, a decade marked […]
The Best & Worst Films of 2012
If there’s one thing that scanning the list of all films released in 2012 teaches us, it’s that—as many movies as I’ve watched this year—I’ve barely scratched the surface. (Which […]
Baz Luhrmann Takes A Great Crapsby
Man, I should be getting paid for writing post titles like that! Or else put away in a very small, windowless room for the rest of my life. What’s inspired […]
Django, The Spaghetti Western
As with all things Quentin Tarantino, his new movie Django Unchained is inspired in some vague way by another movie, in this case the classic Italian spaghetti western Django […]
Mind Control Double Feature #22: There’s No Place Like Home
Ah, the holidays! This time of year, our thoughts turn to home, travel, and rural meth heads. Or family. Whatever. Tomato, tomahto. This week’s brain-boggling Mind Control Double Feature pairs two films that […]
The Hobbit vs Tintin: Which Will Get the Gold?
You are, naturally, confused. You are going to see The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey expecting to see something akin to The Lord of the Rings films. Think again. While there are connections […]
Scorsese’s Mean Streets
After film school, Martin Scorsese spent four years making his first feature, Who’s That Knocking At My Door? (’67), starring the then unknown Harvey Keitel. It didn’t make a splash. […]
Smurfs 2 Is Coming, I.e. Smurfette Becomes A Nymphomaniac
If you thought Hollywood could sink no lower into the filth in which it resides, you’ve got another think coming. Watch this preview for the so-called “children’s movie” Smurfs 2 […]
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Disaster
The Hobbit, as presented at 48fps* (i.e. high frame rate, HFR), marks the death of cinema. At least digital projection, depressing as it is, is being improved to the point […]
They Call Me Mr. Hobbitterness
Let’s accentuate the positive, shall we? That moment—the one in the trailer for The Hobbit—where all the dwarves start singing their sorrowful song? That’s pretty good. There’s a funny bit […]
Wake in Fright: The Nature of Man
To dream of the devil and wake in a fright.
-Old English curse
The Spy Who Bored Me
Are you kidding me? This is supposed to be Roger Moore’s best outing as James Bond? The Spy Who Loved Me (’77) is not anyone’s best outing as anything. To […]