Jake Cole

LATEST ARTICLES ( 682 )

• Netflix Picks 1/11/13-1/17/13

  This week's Netflix picks are up at Movie Mezzanine. This week, I single out the unexpectedly rewarding fourth installment of an uneven spy-action franchise, th... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• The Baytown Outlaws (Barry Battles, 2012)

  I have no sensitivity to seeing the South depicted as a caricature, but the caricature in The Baytown Outlaws is so thin I kept wishing Billy Bob Thornton's dru... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Something Old, Something New: Lonesome / Girl Walk//All Day

  I debuted a new weekly feature this morning at Movie Mezzanine called Something Old, Something New. In it, I take a film released within the last few years... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Overtime (Matt Niehoff and Brian Cunningham, 2011)

  Overtime starts as a vague Tarantino homage before turning into a silly pastiche of various clichés over the course of its 80 minutes. Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Promised Land (Gus Van Sant, 2012)

  All I gotta say is, when I get around to Elephant this year, it better undo a lot of the damage of Van Sant's last decade. I still haven't seen his largely... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• New Gig: Movie Mezzanine

  This morning, Sam Fragoso of Duke and the Movies launched his new website, Movie Mezzanine. I'm proud to say that I will be serving as senior editor and the hea... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Blindspots 2013

  It may be presumptuous of me to plan for another year's worth of Blindspots posts when I still have two more from 2012 to complete (expect one for The Long Day... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• The Best FIlms of 2012

  

  This new decade continues to offer up dozens of films that directly refute the seemingly endless cottage industry of “thinkpieces” devoted to cinema’s death. Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• The Top 10 Michael Powell (And Emeric Presburger) Films

  

  I do not know if any director has had as formative an influence on the films I love than Michael Powell and his creative partner, Emeric Pressburger. Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Capsule Reviews: Girl Walk//All Day, Sound of Noise, Sound of My Voice

  

  Girl Walk//All Day (Jacob Krupnick, 2012)Watching Jacob Krupnick’s Girl Walk//All Day, my focus was initially drawn less to Anne Marsen’s wide-smiling, unashame... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Barbara (Christian Petzold, 2012)

  This wonderful German drama feels like a thriller that draws all of its suspense from the moral quandaries that flash across Nina Hoss' focused eyes in an... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• The Color Wheel (Alex Ross Perry, 2012)

  

  It is both immediately apparent and hard to believe that Alex Ross Perry’s second feature, The Color Wheel, is entirely scripted as the director claims. Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Capsule Reviews: End of Watch, Flight, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

  

  End of Watch (David Ayer, 2012)Whether the cops in End of Watch talk like cops matters less than the joy of them talking like actual human beings. Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Les Misérables (Tom Hooper, 2012)

  

  When set against the experience of seeing a production of Les Misérables,Tom Hooper’s adaptation single-handedly disproves Chaplin’s notion that life is... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• It's Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt, 2012)

  

  Don Hertzfeldt brings a trilogy of short films about a psychologically impaired everyman named Bill to a close with It’s Such a Beautiful Day, his longest and... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Consuming Spirits (Chris Sullivan, 2012)

  A whopping 15 years in the making, Chris Sullivan's work of cross-format animation is not only a beautiful ode to outsider art but a deeply felt human drama on... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg, 2012)

  

  For the last decade, David Cronenberg has retreated from his body horror nightmares of modernity and moved into the traumas that inherently exist in life, well... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• The Ladykillers (1955) Vs. The Ladykillers (2004)

  For my latest Re-Make/Re-Model piece for Spectrum Culture, I compare the blisteringly funny, darkly funny Ealing Studios classic The Ladykillers with the... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Capsule Reviews: The Deep Blue Sea, Cloud Atlas, Rust and Bone

  

  The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies, 2012)Lit in a stuffy haze by Florian Hoffmeister, Terence Davies’ adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s play The Deep Blue Sea... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• This Is 40 (Judd Apatow, 2012)

  

  In Knocked Up, Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) played a side role to Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl’s unstably formed relationship. Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO