Jake Cole

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• Bullet to the Head (Walter Hill, 2013)

  

  Walter Hill's Bullet to the Head may be a middling feature, but it offers a thrilling glimpse at how a great talent can elevate even mediocre material. Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• The Fire (Brigitte Bertele, 2013)

  When it attempts to be a thriller, Brigitte Bertele's The Fire falls flat; what's more, it seems to know this, as these attempts prove fleeting indeed. Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Shelf Life: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

  I have a fondness for Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and did a brief review of it at Movie Mezzanine for my weekly recommendation. Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Man of the West (Anthony Mann, 1958)

  Over at Movie Mezzanine, I wrote some thoughts about Anthony Mann's stirring 1958 masterpiece, Man of the West, starring a perfectly cast Gary Cooper as a man... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Night Across the Street (Raúl Ruiz, 2013)

  

  Raúl Ruiz's final completed feature (another is being finished by his widow) is as cryptic as the few other Ruiz films I've seen, with a host of modernist... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Criminally Underrated: Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

  I wrote about the weakest (but still delightful) Neveldine/Taylor feature to date, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance for Spectrum Culture's Criminally... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Oscar-Nominated Shorts

  I have capsule reviews for each of the animated and live-action shorts nominated for this year's Oscars at Spectrum Culture. They are mostly a wan bunch, lackin... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Trash (Paul Morrissey, 1970)

  Man, I've got to get better about updating this place with links. My review for Paul Morrissey's excellent, transgressive Trash (my first Blindspot entry of... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Palette Cleansers: Canyon Passage

  I debut a new feature this week at Movie Mezzanine that elaborates on the use of color in a film in establishing mood, character, narrative, themes, and the... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Yossi (Eytan Fox, 2013)

  Yossi starts so powerfully that the frustratingly stiff, unvarying approach of its camera makes the eventual slog all the more disappointing. Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Netflix Instant Picks 1/25/13—1/31/13

  Apologies for the lateness of this post, but last Friday's Netflix picks can be found at Movie Mezzanine. For this installment, I promote the birthday of one... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies, 1992)

  

  This is my unforgivably late Blind Spots entry for last November. December's pick, Feuillade's Judex, will likely not receive a write-up until next month.... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Something Old, Something New: The End of Evangelion / It's Such a Beautiful Day

  I watched Don Hertzfeldt's masterpiece and Hideaki Anno's nihilistic OAV within days of each other, and I could not help but be drawn by each. Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Graveyard of Honor (Takashi Miike, 2002)

  For this week's Shelf Life piece at Movie Mezzanine, I took a look at the Takashi Miike film that, more than the few others I've seen, makes me want to really... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Something Old, Something New: The Last Temptation of Christ / Lincoln

  I knew I'd forgotten to link to something this week. Last Monday, my second Something Old, Something New piece went up, this time on the similarities that link... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• My Top 25 Film Discoveries of 2012

  I've been reading the blog Rupert Pupkin Speaks for a while now, and I was delighted when its operator, Brian Saur, sent a request for me to submit my favorite... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Netflix Picks 1/18/13-1/24/13

  It's that time of week again, where Corey Atad and I pick our favorite offerings on Netflix Instant. My own picks for the week are an Oscar-nominated... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Luv (Sheldon Candis, 2013)

  I got an early surprise this year with a festival holdover from Sheldon Candis, the remarkable, intimate drama Luv. Tracking a prepubescent boy's harrowing... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Phantom Lady (Robert Siodmak, 1944)

  Over the weekend, I started a new column on Movie Mezzanine that picks a film a week for review, and my first selection was Robert Siodmak's dreamy noir... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• The Tower (Kim Ji-hoon, 2013)

  The Tower starts off agreeably enough, with shots of geometrically aligned staffers in an ostentatious but cheaply made high-rise apartment complex demonstratin... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO