The 10 Best Books About Movies (That I Just Came Up With This Afternoon)
Books. You’ve heard of them. Some of your favorite movies are based on them. Why not read one? Or ten? I know, it feels like a crime to go around […]
Argo
The tensest part of Argo came thirty minutes in, when I thought, “Did I leave the BBQ on?” That tension lasted through Ben Affleck’s last lingering close-up when I found […]
Seven and a Half Psychopaths
There was a time, not so long ago, that I was looking forward to Seven Psychopaths. Director Martin McDonagh’s last film, In Bruges, was dark, twisted, offensive, and generally good […]
Hysteria: Better When It Was A Def Leppard Album
And I don’t even like Def Leppard! I was going to say that at least Hysteria the movie has more female orgasms per minute, but on second thought, I bet […]
Crap Your Pants Double Feature
I’ve been watching a bunch of horror movies lately. As a young feller, I steered clear of horror films as a rule. They were scary, I thought. Catching up now, […]
The Italian Job: What The Hell Kind of Ending Is That?
No, not that crappy remake, the original from ’69, with Michael Caine, who even back in the ‘60s managed to star in like nine movies a year, and who because […]
Children of Men: The Defining Film of The Aughts
When I first saw the trailer for Children of Men in late ’06, I thought it looked like yet another standard issue end of the world action flick. I had […]
Movies: Gangnam Style!
Heeeeeeyyyy, sexy ladies! oomp. oomp-oomp. oop. oop. Oppa Gangnam style! Unless you live in a hole or with Ted Kaczynski or something, you’ve seen the K-Pop video that’s gone super-meme: […]
Mind Control Double Feature #11: Stop-Motion Monster Fight!
I await with trepidation the latest Tim Burton movie, Frankenweenie, a feature-length adaptation of Burton’s own short from ’84. Word is it’s not actually as bad as everything else Burton […]
Why Looper’s Nonsense is Intense
There has been a lot said about time travel lately, on this blog and around the web. Too much, maybe. Definitely. But you can’t stop me. And I want to […]
The Best of Netflix Streaming: The FP
Are you infuriated because Looper tried to use your brain as a toilet plunger? Do not you fret none. Stand By For Mind Control has just the ticket to make everything all […]
Looper: Dumbest Time Travel Movie Since Timecop?
Timecop, the Jean-Claude Van Damme time travel movie beloved by, er, no, sorry, forgotten by everyone, contains my favorite worst-ever time-travel-movie-moment ever, where Van Damme is brought to the warehouse […]
Looper: All Loose Ends
While it pains me greatly to say so, Looper was vastly disappointing. One of the things that I’d really come to love about Rian Johnson’s writing and directing through our Looper Prep […]
A Separation
When one is in the mood to rent a movie, it’s not often one thinks, “I would love to watch a two hour Iranian slice-of-life film,” when what one normally […]