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Lazy Sunday Rewatch – Inception Turns 10
This Sunday, sit back and smoke a joint as you re-experience the trippy visual contortions of Christopher Nolan. Kim walks us through his recent revisit. I don’t know what I thought would be lazy about...
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Boys State
This Sundance winning documentary about a massive mock-election summer camp is a fascinating, dimensional examination of American democracy or the lack thereof. The kids are alright. Wait, are the...
View ArticleThe Vinyl Revival
Vinyl records have gone from obsolescence to being all the rage with the kids! This informative documentary tracks its resurgence in this weird contemporary zeitgeist. Seven years ago, British director...
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Because You’ve Seen The Boondocks Saints So Many Times
Because You’ve Seen The Boondock Saints So Many Times Maybe it’s a giant rip-off mash-up, maybe it’s uniquely brilliant. Either way, Kim examines the extraordinary and disastrous story behind The...
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I Watched Every Studio Ghibli Movie And You Should Too
Blake took the time to binge watch every Studio Ghibli film. And according to him, their films hold up magnificently as exemplary specimens of animation. Founded in 1985, Japanese animation titan...
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Oldie of the Week – Girl Shy (1924)
Taylor continues his silent era binge with another gem to vouch for. This time its a satirical yet understated Harold Lloyd slapstick romantic comedy, aptly titled Girl Shy. We’re staying in the silent...
View ArticleBill & Ted Face the Music
They talk for years about a sequel to a movie like Bill & Ted that you think will never happen, then blammo — one appears. I’ve always been an ardent fan of the Bill & Ted movies. I first came...
View ArticleTenet
Christopher Nolan’s Tenet is as spellbinding as it is frustrating. And the theatres should be handing out hearing aids because we couldn’t hear a thing. The release of Christopher Nolan’s new film,...
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Comic Book Junkies
Comic Book Junkies is a comedy about fans and cosplayers who are thrown into a spin when the Coronavirus cancels San Diego Comic Con 2020. In the current pandemic crisis, has Zoom become the new...
View ArticleThe Cinephile on a Budget’s Guide to the Public Library
Did you know you can borrow Criterion films, among others, from the library? Blake talks about being a cinephile on a budget with the SPL. My university days were marked by the phrase 3 for $15. I...
View ArticleSpooky TFS – Train to Busan
We kick off our spooky TFS Halloween movie coverage with Blake looking back to 2016 for the South Korean modern zombie classic, Train to Busan. Somewhere in the mountains, a rusty van stops at a...
View ArticleSpooky TFS – Kuroneko
Another week, another great Halloween horror movie recommendation from our man Blake. Kaneto Shindo’s Kuroneko is a beautiful and atmospheric J-horror prototype with emotional complexity. At the edge...
View ArticleSpooky TFS – Audition
Takashi Miike’s Audition is still as shocking as it was in 1999; the story of a middle-aged man’s search for love and the horrible consequences. Set at a cross-section between traditional and modern...
View ArticleSpooky TFS – The Wailing
Na Hong-jin’s film The Wailing was acclaimed upon its release in 2016; we take a deep dive into the gloriously horrifying movie for Spooky TFS. For many years, South Korea has been an exporter of some...
View ArticleBorat Subsequent Moviefilm
Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat is back in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. I know some people don’t like him...
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Spooky TFS – Hausu (House)
Director Nobuhiko Obayashi’s insane horror experience House, or Hausu in Japanese, is required watching a Halloween movie that’s off the beaten path…of all known reality. Dancing skeletons, floating...
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Suzi Q
Robert Barry Francos relives his awesome 1975 Suzi Quatro experience and learns more about the woman and her career with the recent documentary, Suzi Q. My first experience of Suzi Quatro was on May 5,...
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Because You’ve Seen Total Recall So Many Times
Another reader suggestion from a while back. This time, Kim splits a pair and offers two possible alternative title choices. Loooove me some Arnold! I’m always fascinated by the idea that almost anyone...
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Rolling Stone: Life and Death of Brian Jones
The documentary, Rolling Stone: Life and Death of Brian Jones adds more to the canon of information about the late rock star and former Stone. Over the past few years, Danny Garcia has been an...
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Picture My Face: The Story of Teenage Head
Robert Barry Francos takes a look at a film about a seminal Toronto band that inspired many; Picture My Face: The Story of Teenage Head. Every city’s music scene has a band (or bands) that turned the...
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