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Month: August 2015

Enter the world of the computer — 80’s style — in “Tron”

  By michael August 28, 2015 August 28, 2015 Movies

Review by Trylon lightcycle racer Aaron Vehling The original Tron, released in 1982, and starring Jeff Bridges and David Warner, is wholly of that era and yet it feels timeless. Some of that is the perpetual 80s nostalgia we’ve been living in for a good eight years (and codified in… Continue reading

See Ralph Bakshi’s audacious “Heavy Traffic” — Monday and Tuesday at the Trylon

  By michael August 24, 2015 August 24, 2015 Movies

Much is made of the fact that Ralph Bakshi’s first two animated features —  Fritz the Cat and Heavy Traffic — received the “X” rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. What’s really remarkable, though, is that the “X” rating existed at all. Before the early 1970s, not only… Continue reading

Our Jeff Bridges series continues with the dark, underrated “Cutter’s Way”

  By michael August 20, 2015 August 20, 2015 Movies

Review by the Trylon’s grizzled war veteran Ben Schmidt Over the course of the Trylon’s “Jeff Bridges Abides” series, the Bridges I’ve grown to know and love is not the Jeff Bridges that showed up for work on the set of Cutter’s Way. Here, playing low-rent playboy Richard Bone, Bridges… Continue reading

Take a trip to Ralph Bakshi’s “Cool World” — Monday and Tuesday at the Trylon

  By michael August 17, 2015 August 17, 2015 Movies

Cool World is Ralph Bakshi’s attempt to reverse-engineer Who Framed Roger Rabbit into something that fits the seedy urban environments that were on display in Heavy Traffic and Fritz the Cat. At the same time he takes the opportunity to indulge in his own pet obsessions. It won’t surprise anyone… Continue reading

Jeff Bridges teams up with Eastwood in the off-kilter “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot”

  By michael August 14, 2015 August 14, 2015 Movies

Review by Trylon safecracker Ben Schmidt A preacher (Clint Eastwood) runs through a vast Montana wheat field. Behind him another man in dark glasses gives chase, trying to kill the preacher with a pistol. This goes on for a while until the preacher reaches a road and tries to flag… Continue reading

A visually stunning cult classic: Ralph Bakshi’s “American Pop” at the Trylon

  By michael August 11, 2015 August 11, 2015 Movies

Review by Trylon rotoscopist Maria Gomez Ralph Bakshi’s 1981 cult classic film American Pop a timeless story of one Russian family and their history of  American music told through four generations. The story begins with Zalmie coming to America with his mother in the late 19th century as Russian immigrants…. Continue reading

John Huston’s gritty boxing drama “Fat City” screens this weekend at the Trylon

  By michael August 7, 2015 August 7, 2015 Movies

Review by Trylon southpaw Ben Schmidt It’s late after fight night. The crowds and most of the staff of this VFW (or dilapidated theater or wherever we’re at) have all gone home. Four young boxers sit around a table, mere feet from the ring where hours before they each took… Continue reading

Ralph Bakshi’s strange, magical “Wizards” starts Monday at the Trylon

  By michael August 2, 2015 August 2, 2015 Movies

Ralph Bakshi’s Wizards may not be the animator’s best film, but it’s arguably his most ambitious. The movie takes place millions of years after a nuclear war has destroyed virtually all life on Earth. From the ashes an anti-technological utopia has emerged, led by gentle fairies and elves, and other… Continue reading

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