Jake Cole
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Not Just Movies
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A blog containing reviews of film, television, album and books. Features a broad range of topics, from new releases to classics to forgotten gems.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 682 )
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I Saw the Devil (Kim Ji-woon, 2011)
What is it about South Korea and revenge films? My overriding distaste for all but the most thoughtful and daring revenge movie largely confines my genre... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Here and Elsewhere (Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville, 1975)
Partially cobbled together from footage Godard shot in 1970 of a Palestinian insurgency, Here and Elsewhere, his first collaboration with Anne-Marie Miéville,... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Letter to Jane (Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1972)
Conceived as a postscript film to Tout va bien, the 52-minute Letter to Jane closes the door on Godard and Gorin's partnership and the lingering remnants of... Read more
Posted on 19 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Tout Va Bien (Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1972)
In Paul Tingen's survey of Miles Davis' electric period, Miles Beyond, the author repeatedly returns to the idea of "transcend and include" as a way of... Read more
Posted on 19 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Incredibles (Brad Bird, 2004)
One of the stranger aspects of animation is how production studios tend to be viewed in auteurist terms. Mention Disney, Studio Ghibli or Pixar and people can... Read more
Posted on 18 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Vladimir and Rosa (Dziga Vertov Group, 1971)
Vladimir and Rosa is the most successful of the Dziga Vertov Group films to this point because, among its innovative styling and fresh comic timing, it dares... Read more
Posted on 18 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2011)
The grass almost literally looks greener in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's movies: of all the modern poets of the cinema, "Joe" is by far the most tactile. Though... Read more
Posted on 16 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Ulysses, Chapter Eight: Lestrygonians
Having already established Leopold Bloom as a sympathetic character, even something of a role model, Joyce frees the poor man from the dismissive gaze of his... Read more
Posted on 15 April 2011 BOOKS, CULTURE -
When It Rains
At first glance, Charles Burnett's 13-minute short When It Rains may seem a bit low-key to be worthy of Jonathan Rosenbaum's high praise (his being damn-near th... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC -
Ulysses, Chapter Seven: Aeolus
"Talk, talk, it's all talkToo much talk, small talkTalk that trash"-- King Crimson, "Elephant TalkSteeped in obscure Irish history that not even the copious... Read more
Posted on 13 April 2011 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT -
After Hours
In the late-'70s, Martin Scorsese buried the stress of his work and a series of critical disappointments in a mountain of cocaine. When he experienced setbacks... Read more
Posted on 13 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Hanna
In the wake of the dismal, thoroughly chauvinistic takes on female empowerment seen in Kick-Ass and Sucker Punch, along comes Joe Wright to save us. He does no... Read more
Posted on 12 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
My Cinematic Alphabet
I've seen this même going around the blogs lately, so I figured I'd give it a shot. Unsurprisingly, picking a favorite for some letters was impossible because o... Read more
Posted on 11 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Source Code
My review for Duncan Jones' flawed but entertaining anti-sophomore slump Source Code is up now at Cinelogue. I'm still waiting for Jones to find his own voice o... Read more
Posted on 11 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Bitter Moon
My review for Roman Polanski's seldom-discussed but masterful shaggy dog story, Bitter Moon, is now live at Cinelogue. A foray deep into Polanski's sexual... Read more
Posted on 05 April 2011 MOVIES -
Sucker Punch
Zack Synder's latest tribute to slow motion, Sucker Punch, tries so hard to be cool the director might as well have put sunglasses over the camera lens. Maybe h... Read more
Posted on 26 March 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Paul
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's screenplay for Paul reads like the sort of film their characters from Spaced would write. But then, apart from fictional flourishes... Read more
Posted on 22 March 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Déjà Vu: You've Never Seen Something Quite Like This Before
My review for Tony Scott's masterpiece, Déjà Vu, is now up at Cinelogue. A digital version of Vertigo, Scott's film probes issues of obsession, fractured... Read more
Posted on 20 March 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO -
Red Riding Hood
Walking out of Red Riding Hood, I felt a total emptiness in my soul. I could not rage at the absurdity of the story, the effrontery of its capitalization on... Read more
Posted on 19 March 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Ulysses, Chapter Three: Proteus
Oh, how quickly I run into trouble with Ulysses. Already delayed an unforgivable amount of time by piled-up schoolwork, I returned to the "Proteus" episode read... Read more
Posted on 18 March 2011 BOOKS, CULTURE