Jake Cole

LATEST ARTICLES ( 682 )

• Romancing in Thin Air (Johnnie To, 2012)

  

  By virtue of their outlandish style, Johnnie To’s films often broach the postmodern and Brechtian even at their most straightforward; think the opening... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Capsule Reviews: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Life Without Principle, On the Road

  

  Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin, 2012)Benh Zeitlin’s debut feature, Beasts of the Southern Wild, uses memories of Katrina as fodder for a... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Anna Karenina (Joe Wright, 2012)

  

  Joe Wright's previous literary adaptations have been awkward affairs, defined by a perennially miscast Kiera Knightley and an ostentatious visual style that... Read more

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

• Capsule Reviews: Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie, Skyfall, The Best Exotic...

  

  Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, 2012)Anticipating the ire of their many detractors, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim build... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Generation P (Victor Ginzburg, 2012)

  Generation P starts strong as an amusing take on Russia's post-perestroika marketing boon, where communism is made capitalist to sell Western goods to a... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)

  

  Leos Carax's Holy Motors, one of the standout releases of the year, reminds me another great recent picture, Jafar Panahi's This Is Not a Film. Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Top 10 Martin Scorsese Films

  

  With Martin Scorsese celebrating his 70th birthday today, what better time than to count down 10 of the greatest achievements of one of America's greatest... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Dionysus in '69 (Brian De Palma, 1970)

  I never got around to this in my De Palma retrospective, so when Spectrum Culture decided to do one of its own, I knew I had to cover it. The results are... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky, 2012)

  

  The contemporary prevalence of apocalyptic films reaches its apex with The Turin Horse. It contains the various dualities that have marked this recent spate of... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• The Comedy (Rick Alverson, 2012)

  I've been more fascinated than consistently entertained by the likes of Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim and Gregg Turkington (a.k.a. Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Arbitrage (Nicholas Jarecki, 2012)

  

  To pinpoint the moment Arbitrage ceases to be plausible is to assume it ever established any kind of suspension of disbelief at all. Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Capsule Reviews: Lockout, Fixed Bayonets!

  

  Lockout (James Mather, Stephen St. Leger, 2012)Filmed in oxidized green-grays, Lockout has an agreeably dingy look to it, something both exacerbated and... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Vamps (Amy Heckerling, 2012)

  A lightweight vampire parody that mercifully pokes at the deeper lore rather than just taking potshots at Twilight, Vamps starts rough and ends an unexpected... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Peter Hunt, 1969)

  In time for Skyfall's release Friday, I looked back at possibly the best entry of the franchise, the unfairly maligned and forgotten On Her Majesty's Secret... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Detention (Joseph Kahn, 2012)

  

  Joseph Kahn's Detention is a film so scatterbrained that it cannot even begin before getting distracted, introducing a secondary character before moving onto th... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Viewing Log: October 2012

  Theatrical ScreeningsArgo: Solid, if uneven, thriller. Affleck both growing and stagnating as a director.The Birds: Second, big-screen viewing made all the... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Capsule Reviews: A Perfect Getaway, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, Marnie

  

  A Perfect Getaway (David Twohy, 2009)David Twohy's A Perfect Getaway is a lean, juicy thriller with a twist so good that not even an hour's worth of teasing it... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• The Top 10 Roman Polanski Films

  

  Paranoia runs deep under Roman Polanski's work, an obvious feature of a man who has lived under the pressure of social scrutiny since childhood. Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Revisionaries (Scott Thurman, 2012)

  

  A bit unfocused, The Revisionaries nevertheless offers an insightful look into the issue of textbook revisionism in Texas (and beyond, as Texas is, with... Read more

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

• Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (John Hyams, 2012)

  

  Having only become aware of John Hyams' work recently, I nevertheless quickly fell for his elegantly composed long takes and Carpenterian Steadicam tracks. Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES