Michael Shannon will cut you up (The Iceman review)
Though based on copious interviews mob killer Richard Kuklinski gave from prison, this barely broaches the great mystery of his life…
1970s
porn again? (The Look of Love review)
It’s a puzzlement. How did Michael Winterbottom make a film this tediously conservative?
Koch (review)
Historically compelling, journalistically rigorous, and bursting with Essence of Koch…
Cloud Atlas (review)
Insanely grand… My god, I love this movie. It’s every movie. It’s the ultimate movie.
Argo (London Film Festival review)
I was literally in tears for parts of Argo, a purely physical reaction, not an emotional one, to deal with the tension. The only other option would have been to moan out loud, the film is almost that unbearably nerve-wracking.
Dark Shadows (review)
Hoorah for Tim Burton and the new nadir of narcissistic awfulness he achieves here. Dark Shadows dares to be nothing but the wisp of its own conceit.
question of the day: Why is 1990s nostalgia being ignored by filmmakers?
I think it’s especially mysterious when we think back on how optimistic the 90s were in a many ways, certainly compared to the despair of today.
retro ad: late 60s/early 70s Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial
If only Freud had lived to see the answer we discovered to his great question: What do women want? KFC.
retro ad: 1970s PSA about venereal disease
If you find yourself humming the cheery ditty “VD Is for Everybody,” don’t blame me. Blame VD: everybody’s catching it!
retro ad: 1970s Battleship commercial
The commercial the upcoming movie is based on. Liam Neeson plays the guy who says, “You sank my battleship!”
