Jake Cole

LATEST ARTICLES ( 682 )

• Broadcast News (James L. Brooks, 1987)

  

  None of James L. Brooks' films condense his sitcom sensibilities better than Broadcast News. Where so many of his movies feel treacly and thin, Broadcast News... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Brian De Palma: Casualties of War

  

  On a first viewing, I found Casualties of War to be a fitfully intriguing, if overly quotidian Vietnam film that offered up a unique story but a predictable... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948)

  

  The Blu-Ray cover for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre depicts Humphrey Bogart in a moment of sober, slack self-recognition, a repulsed and vacant stare into... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)

  

  The only comedies that have stood up as agelessly as Some Cast It Hot are the works of Chaplin and Keaton, and they have the benefit of the universality of... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean, 1957)

  

  Like the best of David Lean's films, The Bridge on the River Kwai is sweeping but personal, a formal masterwork that ultimately operates to deepen the moral... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2011 MOVIES

• Green Lantern (Martin Campbell, 2011)

  

  Watching Green Lantern in 3D is like watching a glowstick through sunglasses, the already unimpressive neon goop dimmed to a murky hum of sickly light. Its... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Fifteen Movie Questions

  

  So apparently Anna from Defiant Success started a meme asking bloggers 15 movie-related questions (I know, the obscure title throws you off), and Andy from... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Forensic Blues: Bong Joon-ho's Memories of Murder

  My review of Bong Joon-ho's Memories of Murder, one of the best genre films of the previous decade and one of two great modern detective movies alongside Zodiac... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2011 MOVIES

• Attack the Block (Joe Cornish, 2011)

  

  Wyndham Tower looms over a London slum like a fortress, or a prison. Long corridors mark off equally spaced, nondescript doors, some of which (on the higher... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Steven Spielberg: Saving Private Ryan

  

  Saving Private Ryan is the most troublesome film in Steven Spielberg's filmography. It, far more than the contested Schindler's List, Amistad or even the tonall... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen, 2011)

  

  The opening shots of Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris show the titular city from the perspective of a tourist, focusing on landmarks as tour groups walk and... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Breaking Bad — Season 3

  

  [Warning: Contains spoilers for previous seasons]The perpetual moral free-fall of Breaking Bad should not be as sustainable as it's proven to be. Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Super 8 (J.J. Abrams, 2011)

  

  That Super 8 has the audacity to arrive on a marketing platform billing it as an original film is more a testament to the cesspool of derivative sequels, reboot... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Another Year (Mike Leigh, 2011)

  

  [Note: Unlike a number of 2010 films I'm counting for 2011 consideration, Another Year did manage to get a legitimate limited run in the States (not just... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• X-Men: First Class (Matthew Vaughn, 2011)

  

  Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class shows his continual fragmentation as a filmmaker, seemingly incapable of sticking to any one idea and the continual... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)

  

  "God is closer to me than others of my art."-Ludwig van BeethovenIn 1733, Johann Sebastian Bach, born and raised a Lutheran, premiered two pieces of what would... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1969)

  

  The squealed harmonica refrain that runs through Sergio Leone's masterpiece, Once Upon a Time in the West, sounds like the unholy death moans of a desert... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Robert Conquest — The Great Terror

  

  After reading some of Sheila O'Malley's posts on a book called The Great Terror, I found myself sufficiently interested to order a copy and set about reading... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2011 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Doctor Who — "The Eleventh Hour"

  

  So much happens in the first episode of Doctor Who's fifth series that there's no way I could address everything I wanted to in a season-encompassing review,... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, TV & VIDEO

• Underrated Films/Eros + Massacre

  To commemorate its one-year anniversary, Cinelogue is running lists by its contributors for selections of underrated and underappreciated films. Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2011 MOVIES