Jake Cole

LATEST ARTICLES ( 682 )

• The Vulgar Cinema (and Letters to John McTiernan)

  I am excited to announce that a group of writers I admire tremendously invited me to contribute to a new blog devoted to what has been termed "vulgar auteurism. Read more

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

• The Lords of Salem (Rob Zombie, 2013)

  

  Rob Zombie strikes me as one of the best B-movie makers working in America today, and certainly one of the preeminent horror directors of late. Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Netflix Instant Picks 4/12/13—4/25/13

  Been neglecting the blog once again, so here's the last two Netflix roundups I wrote for Movie Mezzanine. Been a lot of quality stuff hitting lately, so be... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• The Place Beyond the Pines (Derek Cianfrance, 2013)

  

  Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond the Pines turns its 140-minute length into a grueling gauntlet of class, gender and racial missteps strung together by... Read more

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

• The Brass Teapot (Ramaa Mosley, 2013)

  Starting with a thin premise it then laboriously and inconsistently hammers home for 100 minutes, The Brass Teapot disappointingly wastes two game performances... Read more

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

• Sun Don't Shine (Amy Seimetz, 2013)

  Amy Seimetz's Sun Don't Shine adds a rough edge to Badlands, dragging primal emotions of fear, rage and desperation out of its characters as they threaten to... Read more

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

• Favorite Film Discoveries: March 2013

  

  Belatedly putting this post up, partly out of forgetfulness/sloth, but partly out of indecision on which of the many fine films I saw last month for the first... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Blu-Ray Review: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

  

  I wrote about Criterion's Blu-Ray of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp at Movie Mezzanine. It is hands down one of Criterion's best, featuring a breathtaking... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Shelf Life: The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. 1

  I briefly touched on a handful of Kenneth Anger's early works contained in a compilation disc for Movie Mezzanine. Anger is one of the more accessible... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Somebody Up There Likes Me (Bob Byington, 2013)

  I never thought I could find so little to love in a film that uses Nick Offerman as the teeing-off position. But Somebody Up There Likes Me is a millennial... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Netflix Instant Picks 4/5/13—4/11/12

  Man, Netflix is really justifying their subscription fee lately. Second week in a row with so many noteworthy additions that I devoted all my picks to new stuff... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Roger Ebert (1942-2013)

  Roger Ebert has been in my life as long as I can remember, starting with the sight of him bickering with Gene Siskel on TV when I could not have been older... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Extraordinary Stories (Mariano Llinás, 2008)

  

  I finally got the chance to see Mariano Llinás' much-praised festival epic, Extraordinary Stories, and it more than lived up to its reputation. Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Blu-Ray Review: Monsieur Verdoux (Criterion Collection)

  

  Monsieur Verdoux is firmly ensconced as my favorite of Chaplin's features, an appreciation that only ever deepens with each viewing. Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Something Old, Something New: Duelle/Spring Breakers

  I finally caught up with Jacques Rivette's mysterious, beautiful Duelle this weekend and was instantly struck by how much it reminded me of Harmony Korine's... Read more

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

• Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford, 1935)

  One of my favorite John Ford discoveries so far is this lazy river comedy, Ford's final collaboration with Will Rogers and a wonderful example of the... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Wrong (Quentin Dupieux, 2013)

  

  I can only hope I don't see a worse, uglier more self-congratulatory disaster this year than Quentin Dupieux's Wrong, his latest exercise in lead-weight... Read more

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

• 'Spring Breakers' Movie Review

  

  On its face, Spring Breakers is such a quantum leap forward for Harmony Korine that it is easy to overlook what a logical progression it is for the director. It... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• New World (Park Hoon-jung, 2013)

  Park Hoon-jung's thriller New World is too twisty by half, with so many upheavals that the plot cannot remotely support them all. Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO

• Criminally Underrated: Miami Vice

  I've written about my turn-around on Miami Vice before, a few thoughts of which are echoed in this piece for Spectrum Culture arguing it as an underrated work. Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV & VIDEO