Jake Cole

LATEST ARTICLES ( 682 )

• We Own the Night (James Gray, 2007)

  

  James Gray opens We Own the Night with a brief montage of gritty black-and-white still photographs of policemen in the late 1980s. Read more

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

• Nobody Walks (Ry Russo-Young, 2012)

  A listless, meaningless diversion into a cloistered L.A. home where the disaffected engage in casual affairs, Nobody Walks seems to aim for Antonioni and instea... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Argo (Ben Affleck, 2012)

  

  As a claustrophobic, I got tremendous discomfort from Argo's crushed shots against throngs of hostile crowds packed so tightly that navigation looks impossible... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Capsule Reviews: Macbeth (1971), The Book of Mary,

  

  Macbeth (Roman Polanski, 1971)Polanski's Macbeth, made in the wake of his wife and unborn child's brutal murder, manages to extrapolate its settings from the... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Cactus River (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2012)

  

  Apichatpong Weerasethakul's shorts are the only thing more confounding than his full-length works, and Cactus River is his most obscure in some time. A... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• I'm Not There (Todd Haynes, 2007)

  

  Upon its release, I'm Not There struck me as a hollow experiment, a nifty "what-if" but nothing more. Not helping matters, certainly, was my own lack of... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Heartbreak Kid (1972) Vs. The HeartbreakKid (2007)

  Elaine May's The Heartbreak Kid is such an overwhelmingly black comedy that I cannot think of another movie to even approach its level of discomfort until... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Killer Joe (William Friedkin, 2012)

  

  Matthew McConaughey enters as the titular hitman in Killer Joe literally coated in leather, clad in hide gloves, jacket and boots. Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review: Detective (Jean-Luc Godard, 1985)

  

  The trio of films that followed Jean-Luc Godard's return to cinema mirrored, in some cases, his early work. Sauve qui peut (la vie), Passion and First Name:... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• David Lynch's Features, Ranked

  

  For October's favorite director ranking, I thought I would choose one of my two favorite directors of horror films that are not exactly horror films. Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2012 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Butter (JimField Smith, 2012)

  Butter is an unfunny, arrogant satire that tries to skewer the Midwest but exists so far outside the realm of reality that it says more about the ignorance of... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Musketeer Mania

  I've got not one but two (sadly not three) pieces on Musketeer movies freshly up on the Internet. One is a discussion between myself and the lovely Allison... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Looper (Rian Johnson, 2012)

  

  Rian Johnson's Looper takes great pains to head off any in-depth discussion of the paradoxes and metaphysical nightmares associated with time travel narratives. Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard, 1985)

  

  Hail Mary follows logically from his previous 1980s work even as it marks one of the biggest departures of his always shifting career. Read more

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

• Head Games (Steve James, 2012)

  Steve James' weakest feature almost doesn't even feel like a James film at first, presenting a straightforward call to increased safety in sports to reduce the... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Center Stage (Stanley Kwan, 1992)

  

  [The following is my Blind Spots review for September]Using period-appropriate filming techniques for movies set in the 20th century is hardly new, especially i... Read more

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

• The Top 10 Tony Scott Films

  

  [This is an entry in my Favorite Directors Blogathon.]It can sometimes be difficult to separate out Tony Scott's gifts as a populist filmmaker when stacked... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Hole (Joe Dante, 2009/2012)

  At last getting any form of non-festival domestic distribution, Joe Dante's family-oriented (family-friendly may be a stretch) horror film The Hole can be seen... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)

  

  [This is my (very belated) August entry in Blind Spots.]Don't Look Now begins with a fade out from rain cascading upon a puddle to shutter-shielded glass window... Read more

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

• If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise (Spike Lee, 2010)

  Spike's follow-up to his landmark When the Levees Broke begins as an incisive continuation of his best documentary, but the sheer range of issues plaguing New... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO