Desperate Teenage Lovedolls is a piece of shit, but that’s what it wants to be. It’s a punk film, about a punk band, doing punk things, so fuck off if you don’t like it. Like all punk, Desperate Teenage Lovedolls is a weird mixture of anger, trolling, nihilism, and earnest…

This film is a mess. If I had to guess I would say it was edited in the dark by a child, a blind child, a blind child with ADHD, a blind child with ADHD, and a meth drip. …

David Shrigley’s Lightswitch is a 1-minute and 28 second long animated line drawing of a hand turning a light switch on and off. It’s about as simple as a cartoon could be, but for me, having just this morning lost my best friend to lung cancer, it is one of…

Sayonara Jupiter, also known as Bye-Bye Jupiter. was made in Japan by Sakyo Komatsu in 1984. On Wikipedia, it says that Komatsu “was one of the most well-known and highly regarded science fiction writers in Japan.” I’m wondering whether the author of the wiki entry saw Sayonara Jupiter. …

The film Of Things Supernatural is an anthology based on three stories written by Karel Capek. Capek was a prominent writer during the turn of the century and was known for his science fiction stories and his political activism against both communism and fascism. Each of the three stories was…

When I was young, I heard that there was this musician named Sun Ra who dressed like an ancient Egyptian and claimed he was from Saturn. I tried listening to some of his music, but it didn’t make any sense to me. It was weird and seemed to wander around…

Tekkonkinkreet, made in 2006, is visually extraordinary. The imagery is some of the best I have ever seen in an anime. It ranges from intricately detailed realism, to splashy, loose impressionism, to frightening expressionist distortions. Anime films are highly collaborative productions, and it can sometimes be difficult to know whom…

I believe it was Joseph Campbell who said that the essential ingredients for making a hero’s journey epic are a protagonist, an antagonist, and a young actress willing to take her shirt off on camera. The protagonist hero is the easy part. Just lure some guy off Hollywood Boulevard with…