In this episode, Tyler and David discuss the movies they’ve been watching, including: Movies SUPERFLY EDWARD II INCREDIBLES 2 THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY UNFORGIVEN
One of the problems inherent in movie sequels is the inevitable comparison to the original. It can’t really be helped. And, in this comparison, the sequel often falls short, if only due to the novelty having worn off. Some sequels,...
Even before Boundaries‘ tired plot grinds into motion, your patience may already be worn thin by the introduction of only the first of its many grating characters. Vera Farmiga’s Laura Jaconi is a single mom who works as an executive assistant...
J.A. Bayona’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is a worthy sequel to a less-than-stellar film. In many ways, it far exceeds Colin Trevorrow’s 2015 film in terms of pure, unrelenting action and suspense. Where that film was required to spend a...
Introducing itself with a song by Corin Tucker’s pre-Sleater-Kinney band, Heavens to Betsy, Christian Papierniak’s Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town kicks off with energetic, punk rock promise. Soon, though, what Papierniak seems to be positioning as a quintessential Los...
Title: Teorema Year: 1968 Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini Cast: Terence Stamp, Massimo Girotti, Anne Wiazemsky, Silvana Mangano, Laura Betti Synopsis: A bourgeois Italian family is met with an enigmatic stranger (Stamp) who seduces each member then disappears. After his departure...
From the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, a Rob Reiner film was a grade A production. It would be unthinkable, for instance, for him to employ any less than William Goldman to adapt a hot Stephen King property like Misery,...
In this episode, West plays music from the first three films of David Lynch. Music in this episode includes: “Side One (Excerpt)” and “Side Two (Excerpt)” from Eraserhead (1977); sound effects by David Lynch and Alan Splet “In Heaven (The...
1980’s Nightkill is, perhaps disappointingly, not quite as dumb and trashy as its title would suggest. But director Ted Post (Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Magnum Force) still brings a sense of matinee movie fun to this murder cover-up thriller. He also...
This week we travel to Indy PopCon and discuss all the crazy goings on, as well as the latest trailers we’ve seen for upcoming movies, including… Bad Times at the El Royale, Suspiria, Destination Wedding, Upgrade, and the latest Halloween...
Perhaps the most heartbreaking work of avant garde cinema ever made, there’s a kind of graceful fury boiling underneath the placid, azure surface of Derek Jarman’s Blue. Released only months before Jarman’s AIDS-related death, the film is a mix of...
