Jake Cole

LATEST ARTICLES ( 682 )

• Alternative Westerns

  Catching up on month-old articles to post here. I don't like the headline for this piece for Film.com (it's hard to argue that many of these films in question... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Lightning Strikes Twice: The Digital Rebirth of Francis Ford Coppola

  

  Francis Ford Coppola's post-2007 comeback is vexing, bewildering, esoteric and, to these eyes, his most exciting work since the 1970s. Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Johnnie To FIlms, Ranked

  

  I haven't been updating this blog like I should to link to everything I've been up to the last month (I hope to catch up on that this weekend), and part of the... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Blu-Ray Review: Bullet to the Head

  I'm very pleased that, after an earlier review copy was never sent to me, I am finally writing for Slant Magazine! My first review is for the Blu-Ray of Walter... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Atmospheric Horror Films

  Today's release of The Conjuring brings with it ample praise for the film's well-crafted jump scares, but my hatred of that form of horror got me thinking... Read more

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

• Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland, 2013)

  "The soft-focus images that introduce Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio directly place attention on the sound to get one’s bearings. Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• I Dood It (Vincente Minnelli, 1943)

  I was even less taken with Minnelli's second film than I was his first. A project thrown at his feet when its original director was fired, I Dood It simply... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• A Hijacking (Tobias Lindholm, 2013)

  The hijacking that gives Tobias Lindholm’s new film its title does not even occur on-screen. After being introduced to the crew of a Danish cargo ship bound... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Cabin in the Sky (Vincente Minnelli, 1943)

  Minnelli's first film has the theatricality he brought with him from Radio City and would be with him for his whole career, but it lacks much of the cinema. Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• They All Laughed (Peter Bogdanovich, 1981)

  I've seen They All Laughed twice, and the second time felt as magical as the first even as I could better settle in and appreciate the delicate mastery of... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Capsule Reviews: I Used to Be Darker, It Felt Like Love, Man of Steel

  

  I Used to Be Darker (Matt Porterfield, 2013)Matt Porterfield’s film draws its title from Bill Callahan’s song “Jim Cain,” one of several about his breakup with... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• This Is Martin Bonner (Chad Hartigan, 2013)

  

  I've seen a number of great independent films this year, few better than Chad Hartigan's exceptional, wise-beyond-its-years This Is Martin Bonner. Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• James Gandolfini (1961—2013)

  

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  Posted on 20 June 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Dirty Wars (Rick Rowley, 2013)

  Slightly too focused on Jeremy Scahill himself as the journalist uncovers a massive, unsettling method of covert operations, Dirty Wars nevertheless condenses... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Student (Darezhan Omirbayev, 2013)

  I was not particularly taken with Omirbayev's Student, a wan retelling of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment that reduces the complexities of the prose and its... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• To the Wonder (Terrence Malick, 2013)

  

  To the Wonder marks the fullest distillation of Terrence Malick’s style even as it violently shakes up the formula like nothing else in his oeuvre from the... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• School of Rock (Richard Linklater, 2003)

  One of these days I hope to write a more in-depth appreciation of this film, as well as Jack Black's exemplary performance in it. Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (Justin Lin, 2006)

  I had such an unexpectedly good time at the most recent Fast and Furious movie, despite some reservations about its overbearing plotting, that I took advantage... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Movie Review: 'Behind the Candelabra'

  

  Soderbergh's newest film dazzles on the big-screen Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Netflix Instant Picks (5/24/13-5/30/13)

  Netflix's changed API now make tracking expiring soon titles much more difficult, so this week's titles are reduced to new picks and an old delight. Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO