Jake Cole

LATEST ARTICLES ( 682 )

• Ulysses, Chapter Seventeen: Ithaca

  [Link to previous chapters here]In a way, "Ithaca," the penultimate chapter yet the proper summation of Ulysses' "plot," is as gorgeous and revealing as its... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2011 BOOKS

• A Life In Movies

  

  Here's my (overdue) contribution for Fandango Groovers' blogathon "A Life in Movies," in which bloggers choose their favorite films from each year since their... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review of Thor (Branagh, 2011)

  

  For all its flaws, Tim Burton's original Batman stands above nearly any other first entry in a superhero franchise for one simple reason: it did not waste time... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ulysses, Chapter Sixteen: Eumaeus

  [Link to previous chapters here]Once again, Joyce gives the audience a breather, following up the sexual nightmares conjured by M.C. Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2011 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Last Bolshevik (Chris Marker, 1992)

  In an attempt to expand my knowledge of Chris Marker, whose La jetée and Sans soleil continue to fill my thoughts long after watching them, I sought out his 199... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Steven Spielberg: Amistad

  

  Amistad is the last film in Steven Spielberg's corpus I'm visiting for the first time. Surrounded by the more lauded dramatic achievements of Schindler's List... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ulysses, Chapter Fifteen: Circe

  [Link to previous chapters here]Did someone tear out what was meant to be the Circe chapter and paste in the screenplay for Bitter Moon hoping I wouldn't notice? Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2011 BOOKS

• Ulysses, Chapter Fourteen: Oxen of the Sun

  [Link to previous chapters here]Let me me briefly summarize how I've gotten through Ulysses to this point. After constantly checking endnotes as I read through... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2011 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Ulysses, Chapter Thirteen: Nausicaa

  [Link to previous chapters here]Note to self: stop thinking I have Leopold Bloom pegged down. James Joyce delights in confounding expectations and shaking up hi... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2011 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Ulysses, Chapter Twelve: Cyclops

  [Link to previous chapters here]Nothing makes me as simultaneously amused and infuriated as a bad (good?) pun. Joyce highlights the fact that the 12th episode o... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2011 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Brian De Palma: Blow Out

  

  Blow Out represents a breakthrough for Brian De Palma. After farcically and satirically pulling apart the bonds of cinema for nearly two decades, the... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ulysses, Chapter Eleven: Sirens

  Sometimes Joyce can be so literal I almost don't notice what he's doing. The Sirens chapter is based, of course, on the golden-voiced bird-women who lured... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2011 BOOKS

• Ulysses, Chapter Ten: The Wandering Rocks

  Odysseus never travels through the Wandering Rocks in The Odyssey. Given the choice between the rocks, which pose such hazards that not even birds can make it... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2011 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam, 1998)

  

  It may come as a surprise that Terry Gilliam, surrealist animator and maker of various self-contained fantasies, has never touched drugs in his life. It... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Fast Five (Justin Lin, 2011)

  

  Having seen neither the third nor fourth entries in the Fast and Furious franchise, I cannot say whether Fast Five is, as so many now say, the finest film in th... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ulysses, Chapter Nine: Scylla and Charybdis

  The Scylla and Charybdis episode marks a turning point in Ulysses: though it once again only teases the reader with the near-miss of Stephen and Bloom, it at... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2011 CULTURE

• The Fisher King (Terry Gilliam, 1991)

  

  Made in 1991, The Fisher King is both somewhat dated and remarkably ahead of its time, a rarity among the classical mythological/folk-tale fantasies of its... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Numéro Deux (Jean-Luc Godard, 1975)

  

  Numéro deux represents Godard's first fully successful attempt to include the elements of his previous films into a cohesive whole. Ironically, it may also be... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Announcement: Inexhaustible Documents

  Next month, Ed Howard of Only the Cinema will launch a new series at his blog called Inexhaustible Documents. Modeled after The Oldest Established Really... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Taxi Driver

  To commemorate the release of _Taxi Driver_ on a downright essential Blu-Ray, I've reviewed the film at Cinelogue. Almost assuredly my favorite movie of the... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2011 MOVIES