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I've been jamming consistantly to El-P, Run The Jewels and My Bloody Valentine for the last three weeks.

I'm curious where it can go - narratively, both of the sequels were misfires, too concerned with their own individual trivialities to contribute to the larger story we all felt was there, but...

I'm curious where it can go - narratively, both of the sequels were misfires, too concerned with their own individual trivialities to contribute to the larger story we all felt was there, but...

I posted this question on Facebook, but it's been niggling at me, so I'll ask it here too: what are everyone's thoughts on Victor Salva?

MadMan, no such thing as buying too many movies. I have a collection of easily over 2,000 - 300 Criterions and an assortment of Shouts!, Arrow's, Kino's and Indicator's. This is the medium we live...

My tastes in animation aren't as fine grained as some, but Rango still surprises me.

Extraction is hot garbage. My roommate agrees - it's hard to take your work any kind of seriously when you have your main character jump off a cliff into the ocean just to meditate. The one-take shot...

I just watched Elevator To The Gallows for the first time, and it came on the back of a rewatch of Rififi. It's startling how much the former owes to the latter - you can almost feel the hero worship...

I'm back. After many years. And I've started writing critically again.

http://www.thefilmistreturns.wordpress.com

I have to thank all the veterans who I used to post with - you guys have no...

Cory McAbee and Bobby Lurie also have a really great mini-series in the same vein called Stingray Sam. I actually did an interview a long, long time ago with Lurie when it came out and I had...

Hey, everyone! So, I've been away for . . .almost two years, and a lot's happened in that time! Most importantly:

http://i.imgur.com/wQAD8eF.jpg

My fiancee of two and a half years married my...

"We some kinda. . .Power Rangers."

I like going to the theater to see films. It's the venue they were made for. Also, I have a sizable Criterion collection that I paid a lot of money for, and the reason for that is all the...

Loved this. Don't want to examine it logically or narratively too much because it might fall apart, but it works wonders as a nightmare fable on the nature of relationships - also, the weird Brave...

So far, nothing in the DCCU has done anything for me, and BVS was crazytown bananapants awful. . .but I'm still excited for Justice League and The Batman because I've waited way, way too long for a...

I liked it, a lot. Currently tied with Get Out as my front-runner for favorite film of the year (so far, at least). A Western through-and-through, all shot up with themes of vengeance, legacy and...

I'm sure if I spent more time on it I could produce a more introspective list, but this is just spur-of-the-moment using Google to remind me what came out when.


1991 - Until The End of The...

Seriously. I find myself saying this more and more often recently, but - it's not even subtext. It's right there in the dialogue and top-most narrative layer of the film, and is the driving source of...

So, I went back and saw it again (this make three). I think my favorite scene might be Furiosa's reunion with the Vuvalini - the visual contrast between where she came from and who she's grown into,...

Gonna be honest - expect a more prolonged review later on, hopefully for some kind of venue or outlet because I haven't done that in a while and this is kind of the movie I've been waiting for - but,...

Mad Max: ♦♦♦
Mad Max 2, The Road Warrior: ♦♦♦♦
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome: ♦♦♦ 1/2
Mad Max Fury Road: ♦♦♦♦

Saying it now.

Also: now up to 25/0 on RT.

It really is. The more I think about it, the more I'm struck by how unique and dazzling and kinetic and just. . . bursting with pure cinema it is. It's a wonder it exists, much less that it was...

Enh, this was okay. Outside of Iron Man, The Winter Soldier and Guardians of The Galaxy, these Marvel movies just kind of exemplify sameness to me. To be fair, they've only got the one song, but it's...

It's a big work - pieces of it feel inspired by Brian May's stuff from The Road Warrior, and still others by John Powell's work on Happy Feet. There's big, sweeping, operatic moments and quiet,...