Jake Cole

LATEST ARTICLES ( 682 )

• Blu-Ray Review: The Big Parade (Warner)

  

  Warner outdid themselves with this nearly flawless transfer of King Vidor's amazing The Big Parade. Barring some inevitable dropped frames and a scant amount... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• TIFF Review: Stray Dogs

  

  I don't know when this will get distribution, but for now it is safely my favorite film of 2013, and, if it comes out next year, an extremely high bar for 2014'... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Anti-Gravity: Why Alfonso Cuarón’s Space Odyssey Is Shortsighted About Long-Takes

  So, I was one of a precious few people who found Gravity to be a mediocre film, not just in its weak script (which has been noted even by admirers) but in its... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Blu-Ray Review: Prince of Darkness (Shout!)

  

  I cannot recommend the new Blu-Ray of Prince of Darkness enough. Having seen it alternately on DVD and streaming services, I was blown away by how clean the fil... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Alain Badiou — In Praise of Love

  

  As Badiou lays out in the early portions of his chat with Truong, love relies on risk, the cautious willingness of both parties to expose themselves to someone... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Prince of Darkness (John Carpenter, 1987)

  My initial review of Prince of Darkness was mostly negative, but it is the Carpenter film I have returned to most often, and the one that has gradually emerged... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Keep Your Right Up (Jean-Luc Godard, 1987)

  

  Mostly shot before King Lear but not completed and released until after that film’s Cannes premiere, Soigne ta droite, a.k.a. Keep Your Right Up, represents... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• I Married a Witch (René Clair, 1942)

  Over at Film.com, I've got a review up for René Clair's light but pleasing comedy I Married a Witch, out now from Criterion. It's a bit of a weak film, with... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)

  

  The following is October's entry in my (much-delayed) Blind Spots series.Dario Argento’s Suspiria is a film that only lets its audience know what is going on... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass, 2013)

  

  The stretch of Captain Phillips in which the Maersk Alabama container ship is approached, boarded and scoured by pirates, suits the contours of Paul... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• TIFF Review: The Unknown Known: The Life and Times of Donald Rumsfeld (Errol...

  

  First up from TIFF, the new Errol Morris documentary, a worthy (if inferior) companion to The Fog of War that finds another defense secretary who presided over ... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Fanboy Contra Fanboy: The Genius of Edgar Wright

  Managed to get this done just before leaving for Toronto. I loved The World's End as I have loved all of Edgar Wright's work, as ever for its critique of fan... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• TIFF Review: Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)

  

  I wasn't the biggest fan of Birth, as this blog will attest, but I found Jonathan Glazer's return to feature filmmaking one of the year's most exciting events. Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Love Is a Battlefield: The Romantic VIolence of Wong Kar-wai

  With Wong Kar-wai's masterful (if you stick to the Chinese cut) The Grandmaster out now, I was drawn to the parallels between this ostensible commercial Wong an... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Brian De Palma, Ranked

  I hear a lot of valid objections to ranking a director's filmography, most of which I share, but the format at least allows me to argue for some of the more... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Austenland (Jerusha Hess, 2013)

  

  My slackness in updating this blog has gotten embarrassing. I still need to link to all my TIFF coverage and even put up links for material that preceded my... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Blu-Ray Review: Charulata

  

  If Criterion's recent releases sometimes feel a bit too safe (the forthcoming gargantuan Zatoichi box set and Bergman/Rossellini collabos not withstanding),... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Blu-Ray Review: The Muppet Movie

  Over at Slant, I reviewed the new Blu-Ray of The Muppet Movie. It's a fine disc from Disney, with a transfer that faithfully preserves the occasionally... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Crystal Fairy (Sebastian Silva, 2013)

  Yet another catch-up, this time with an odd film that only grabbed me intermittently. Michael Cera's subtly self-lacerating corruption of type is great, but it... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Museum Hours (Jem Cohen, 2013)

  Stretching way back into July to belatedly update this blog (sorry gang, it's been a hectic month and a half) to post this review of what is, so far, my favorit... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO