Jake Cole
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Not Just Movies
http://armchairc.blogspot.com/
A blog containing reviews of film, television, album and books. Features a broad range of topics, from new releases to classics to forgotten gems.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 682 )
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10 Great Silent Horror Films
Ignore the headline chosen for the piece proper: I wouldn't classify these as truly the 10 scariest movies of the silent era; I still have much to see and I als... Read more
Posted on 10 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO -
Blu-Ray Review: Violet & Daisy (Cinedigm)
Violet Daisy should have been a disaster: a twee gender-flip of The Boondock Saints with a candy-colored approach to mayhem and dialogue that stresses how... Read more
Posted on 10 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO -
Toad Road (Jason Banker, 2013)
I hate to kick an independent trying to get their start, but I also cannot abide the laziness with which so many treat horror as a cynical means to a quick... Read more
Posted on 09 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO -
How I Live Now (Kevin Macdonald, 2013)
I've somewhat cooled on this already tepid response in the month since I reviewed it, but I nonetheless feel there are aspects of How I Live Now to admire,... Read more
Posted on 09 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO -
Paradise (Diablo Cody, 2013)
I've previously been a defender of Diablo Cody's but her directorial debut is everything her detractors have accused her of being: simplistic, condescending,... Read more
Posted on 09 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO -
Blu-Ray Review: Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project (Criterion)
Been super busy for a month now, about to be even more so as I take on end-of-year assignments and get set to move to Atlanta. Read more
Posted on 09 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO -
The Dirties (Matthew Johnson, 2013)
The Dirties is one of my favorite films of the year, an exceptionally timed black comedy about a lonely, movie-obsessed boy getting lost in the project whose... Read more
Posted on 28 October 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO -
Pauline Kael—5001 Nights at the Movies
There's been a resurgence in publication of Pauline Kael's work in the last few years after a 2011 mini-renaissance that saw some biographies and a new... Read more
Posted on 24 October 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO -
Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel, 2013)
I've been dying to see this film for nearly a year and a half, and I'm thrilled to say that Leviathan more than lives up to its reputation as very possibly the... Read more
Posted on 24 October 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO -
The Smashing Pumpkins—Siamese Dream
I was never into the Smashing Pumpkins growing up, but a recent relisten to their catalog has been revelatory. Of them, Siamese Dream is obviously the crowning... Read more
Posted on 23 October 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO -
24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom, 2002)
Post-punk is my favorite genre of music (one of these days, I must get back to my series of posts on The Fall, possibly my favorite band), and Michael... Read more
Posted on 22 October 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO -
In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey (James Cullingham, 2013)
John Fahey is one of the best and most overlooked guitarists of the 20th century, and James Cullingham's mini-feature does about as good a job as one can do in... Read more
Posted on 21 October 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO -
Talking Mystery Train with Allison Kupatt
I loved Jim Jarmusch's latest, Only Lovers Left Alive, so much when I saw it at TIFF that I was eager to revisit some of the director's other work and talk abou... Read more
Posted on 21 October 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO -
The Canyons (Paul Schrader, 2013)
I neither think of The Canyons as a maligned film maudit nor a justified one. Instead, it is a film whose flaws are readily apparent but also, on occasion, the... Read more
Posted on 20 October 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO -
Camille Claudel, 1915 (Bruno Dumont, 2013)
This was my first Bruno Dumont film, and I've heard it's something of a departure for casting so prominent a star as Juliette Binoche. Read more
Posted on 20 October 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO -
Halloween II (Rob Zombie, 2009)
Announcement: I will be contributing DVD/Blu-Ray reviews in the near future to the NY-based and -oriented site Cinespect, but for the time being I contributed... Read more
Posted on 20 October 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO -
Metallica: Through the Never (Nimród Antal, 2013)
I've long outgrown my metal phase, but I still love to listen to Metallica. Even so, I never expected to like Through the Never as much as I did. Read more
Posted on 18 October 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO -
Enough Said (Nicole Holofcener, 2013)
Belatedly linking to last week's review of the fine, sometimes beautiful Enough Said, which sports two incredible lead performance that are so good that the fil... Read more
Posted on 18 October 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO -
King Lear (Jean-Luc Godard, 1987)
My Godard posts have all been first impressions, for better and worse (especially worse during my early attempts to grapple with him), but I had to watch King... Read more
Posted on 17 October 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO -
TIFF Capsules
Here are links to the capsules I wrote for Movie Mezzanine during TIFF.This link contains capsules for Bastards (Claire Denis), Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim... Read more
Posted on 17 October 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO