With nearly 200 movies to his credit, Dick Miller is one of those guys you’ve seen on screen many times, somebody you sorta kinda recognize from other films, even though you can’t quite come up with his name. Miller was a versatile actor from the earliest days of his career… Continue reading
Enter the pleasantly surreal world of animator Caleb Wood: by turns manic, contemplative and hypnotic, it’s a place where anything can happen and causality is permanently on vacation. Wood is part of a generation of animators whose work thrives on the Internet. In this retrospective, Wood presents high-speed roadkill slideshows,… Continue reading
Just the other day Trylon volunteer Dave Berglund pointed me toward an article by Alissa Wilkinson in The Atlantic about the small but growing phenomenon of indie faith-based filmmaking. It’s important to note that the article isn’t talking about movies aimed at the “faith-and-family” crowd — movies like Left Behind… Continue reading
Shion Sono’s Why Don’t You Play In Hell? is a wacky, blood-drenched homage to the movies, and to the people who love the movies. It’s as over-the-top and goofy as anything you’re likely to see on the big screen this year. The movie starts with a Japanese toothpaste commercial, in… Continue reading
It’s week two in our Pedro Almodóvar series, and All About My Mother (1999) is one of the director’s best — filled with humor, tragedy, bold primary colors and improbable coincidences. Esoteric and desultory, All About My Mother floats and lands on a grieving mother, Manuela (Cecilia Roth). She seeks… Continue reading
Review by Trylon volunteer Elizabeth Doyle Pedro Almodóvar has an unquestionably keen eye – one filled with great affection – for women. His films are best known for their wild use of color and staunch female performances, but in the case of Hable con ella (Talk to Her), while the… Continue reading
Pioneer is a white-knuckle drama about deep-sea divers laying undersea oil pipeline, and the early scenes evoke any number of submarine movies: metal groans under enormous undersea pressure, sweaty people eye bulkheads nervously, hoping they don’t collapse, and tough guys bet everything on making it out alive one more time. … Continue reading
Review by Trylon volunteer Maria Gomez In few films has there been the kind of intense chemistry between two actors as that of Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart. They had that sizzling heat that turned them into one of the most exciting couples to watch onscreen. It is the same… Continue reading
Joseph Turner (Robert Redford) is a CIA analyst who works in an obscure office in Washington D.C., part of a research group that spitballs unlikely what-if scenarios that are then squirreled away in the agency’s vast archives. It’s a job he find less than fulfilling. But one day, Turner goes… Continue reading
Review by Trylon super-sleuth Caty Rent Murder on the Orient Express is the most famous of Agatha Christie’s whodunits featuring the vain and fussy detective Hercule Poirot. As is often the case in the mystery genre, the facts of the case aren’t as important as the method and quirks and… Continue reading
