Thicker Than Water: The Vampire Diaries Part 1 (review)
Gruesomely agreeable twists on standard vampire motifs abound in this elegantly ambitious film…
black comedy
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Long Game”
Tons of spoilers! Don’t read unless you’ve seen the episode!
Drag Me to Hell movie review: not your conventional horror movie
I’ve been a fan of Raimi’s forever, since long before he shot to fame with his big-budget *Spider-Man* flicks….
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “World War III”
Tons of spoilers! Don’t read unless you’ve seen the episode!
The Brothers Bloom (review)
A deliciously clever, convention-busting flick with more soul than you’d expect…
Tokyo! (review)
This triptypch of short flicks about the Japanese capital by non-Japanese filmmakers is wildly intriguing to me, as someone who has never been there but would like to visit — I wonder, though, how natives or familiar foreigners would parse the peculiarities of these disturbing urban fairy tales.
Crank: High Voltage (review)
Take a look back at everything I wrote about the first *Crank,* and how wrong and evil and amoral and filthy and sordid that flick was, and double it. No, quintuple it. Also: quintuple how much I laughed.
Observe and Report (review)
‘I thought this was gonna be funny,’ says a character at one vital point in *Observe and Report,* ‘but it’s actually kinda sad.’ Bingo!
Duplicity movie review: good clean fluff
It’s not that I don’t like fluff: it’s that I don’t like dumb fluff. And yet clever fluff is so very rare. So of course I cheer a hearty “Hoorah!” for Duplicity.
Synecdoche, New York (review)
It was Charlie Kaufman, at the multiplex, with a mindfrak.
