Jake Cole

LATEST ARTICLES ( 682 )

• Criminally Underrated: The Limits of Control

  I loved Jim Jarmusch's divisive (to say the least) post-modern noir when it came out in 2009, and finally watching one of its biggest inspirations, The Lady fro... Read more

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

• Beyond the Black Rainbow (Panos Cosmatos, 2012)

  Empty but gorgeous imagery, filled with references to other movies and heavily indebted to Kenneth Anger. No, it's not a Nicholas Winding Refn film but Beyond... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Dark Shadows (Tim Burton, 2012)

  

  On paper, Dark Shadows should be a stirring return to form for Tim Burton. Like Beetlejuice, its focus on one main set limits Burton's arty leanings even as it... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)

  

  I don't have anything to add to the long-running critical discussion for Notorious, one of Alfred Hitchcock's most beloved pictures, and one of the most... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• The Avengers (Joss Whedon, 2012)

  

  Let's get a couple of things out of the way. The Avengers opens on such a hollow note that its entire first act struggles to find any kind of footing at all. Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch, 1992)

  As weird as Twin Peaks was, the idea of watching a film that worked as an anti-closure prequel to its cliffhanger finale and alienated what fans of the show... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Fall: Rough Trades and Kameraderie (1980-1983)

  

  Previous Fall posts:The Early Years (1976-1980)As I noted in my last post, The Fall marked the '80s by switching labels from Step Forward to Rough Trade Records. Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Birth (Jonathan Glazer, 2004)

  

  [The following post is my belated April selection of my Blind Spots choices.]Jonathan Glazer's Birth cribs so much from Stanley Kubrick that I don't think that... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• 50 Book Pledge #12: Patrick deWitt — The Sisters Brothers

  

  FINALLY getting back to reading after a busy end to my internship and then a week of just being out of it. I took a break from my Finnegans Wake reading and my... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• The Fall: The Early Years (1976-1980)

  

  The Fall is my favorite band. The ever-shifting lineup headed by Mancunian gutter prophet-poet Mark E. Smith was post-punk before punk had even flamed out and... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947)

  I've been meaning to watch The Lady from Shanghai for YEARS, yet inexplicably it kept falling between the cracks. But I finally watched it and wrote about it fo... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Re:Generation Music Project (Amir Ben-Lev, 2012)

  I never know where to stand on DJs, so I was glad to watch Re:Generation Music Project, an effort to prove the artistic validity of this sort of music. Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• A Tale of Two Pelhams

  Spectrum Culture has a fun new feature that compares and contrasts remakes of films with their original versions. It's already made for some great reads, and I... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2012 MOVIES

• Geoff Dyer — Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room

  I mentioned reading this a few weeks back and that a full review was on the way. It's finally up at Spectrum Culture. Zona was a great read, illuminating in... Read more

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

• Day & Night (Teddy Newton, 2010)

  

  [The following is an entry in Pussy Goes Grrr's Short Animation Blogathon, running April 23-27.]My first experience with short animation was, naturally, old... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Filth and the Fury (Julien Temple, 2000)

  

  The Filth and the Fury opens with an old BBC weather report announcing incoming rain. The metaphor works two-fold, as a literal announcement of the coming... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC

• The Raid: Redemption (Gareth Evans, 2012)

  

  It cannot be denied that the fight choreography in Gareth Evans' The Raid: Redemption ranks among the finest ever put to film. A showcase for the Indonesian... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Random List: 15 More Great Live Albums

  

  I had so much fun writing about some of my favorite live albums the other week that I thought I might share some of my other musical favorites. Read more

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

• Monsieur Lazhar (Philippe Falardeau, 2012)

  I'm afraid I didn't particularly take to Monsieur Lazhar, the classroom drama that received an Academy Award nomination for best foreign-language film at this... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• The Cabin in the Woods (Drew Goddard, 2012)

  

  [Warning: Contains mild first-act spoilers after the jump]Drew Goddard made his feature debut with 2008's Cloverfield, penning the film's ambitious but misguide... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES