Jake Cole

LATEST ARTICLES ( 682 )

• Links

  So it should be obvious from a cursory look that this site isn't really updated anymore but I am still writing around the internet so here are links to my work... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• The Best Wrestling Matches of 2016 (15-1)

  

  Continuing from yesterday's post, read on as I count down my favorite wrestling matches of the year.15. Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• The Best Wrestling Matches of 2016 (30-16)

  

  When I posted a list of my favorite wrestling matches of the year last December, I had only just gotten into wrestling, converted rapidly by the excellence of... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• The Unlikely Autobiography of Prince’s ‘Under the Cherry Moon’ and ‘Graffiti...

  Hello all,I don't use this blog much anymore, if that wasn't obvious, but I keep meaning to perma-post links to my published bylines and will do that soon. Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Wrestle Kingdom 10

  

  New Japan Pro Wrestling yet again throws down the gauntlet for the year with a top flight PPV that boasts a great card and even better work. No use beating... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• My Year in Pro Wrestling

  

  It’s weird to get into pro wrestling when you’re 26 as opposed to, say, just 6. I remember being about that age when Hulk Hogan was attempting to break out of... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• TIFF14/NYFF Round-Up

  Here are links to my TIFF coverage from earlier this year, plus some reviews of films I saw in Toronto but pitched as NYFF reviews. Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Beyond the Lights

  I had some reservations about aspects of Gina Prince-Bythewood's critique of celebrity itself, but overall Beyond the Lights is a gorgeous, well-acted romance... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Gone Girl (David Fincher, 2014)

  

  Warning: contains spoilersGive David Fincher some credit: he may have cemented his name as the man who converts grim bestsellers into self-consciously removed,... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Lucy (Luc Besson, 2014)

  Filled with Nic Roeg-esque montages and a finale that repurposes Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life as some sort of metaphysical chase sequence, Luc Besson’s... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Love Streams

  One of two pieces I wrote recently about John Cassavetes' not-quite-swan song, his masterpiece Love Streams. An excerpt:The film’s title alludes to an idea Sara... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Blu-Ray Review Round-Up (08/10/2014)

  Here's a few months worth of Blu-Ray reviews from Slant and Movie Mezzanine.Movie MezzanineSleepaway Camp (Scream Factory)Rollerball (1975) (Twilight... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• The Dance of Reality (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 2014)

  By the same token, it’s also a fitting summary of everything that hinders the film’s aspirations to a singular vision. The highly chromatic, ill-fitting series... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Music Reviews

  I'm trying my hand at more music reviews this year, mostly for the site Spectrum Culture. Here's links to my music-related pieces:Nas, IllmaticMiles Davis, Mile... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Finding Fela (Alex Gibney)

  A greater sin still is how the film saps Fela’s music of its energy. It’s not entirely Gibney’s fault: no documentary about an artist has ever captured the... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Blu-Ray Review: The Lego Movie

  The Lego Movie is too scattershot and content to be the satire some claim it is, but I nonetheless find its 40-jokes-per-minute mania pleasing, and liked it as... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Blu-Ray Review: The Man from Laramie

  The Man from Laramie is the last Anthony Mann-James Stewart collaboration, and if it's not the best of their work (I'd narrowly give the edge to The Naked... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Blu-Ray Review: L'Eclisse

  The more I watch and return to Michelangelo Antonioni, the less concerned I am with "solving" his elliptical form and the more I'm content simply to bask in it. Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Blu-Ray Review: A Hard Day's Night

  I watched A Hard Day's Night for the first time back in 2009 when the Beatles remasters came out and loved it so much I was instantly ready to call it maybe... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Louie Season 4 Recaps

  Rather than do individual posts, here are links to all of my Louie coverageEpisodes 1 2: "Back" and "Model"Episodes 3 4: "So Did the Fat Lady" and... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO