Brew Views Sure, Jack Nicholson’s famous “chicken salad sandwich” diner scene (filmed outside Eugene!) gets all the love, but the best moments in Five Easy Pieces come at the ending. (If you ca ...   More

Brew Views The latest instance of a preview reel as its own feature, Jacques Boyreau’s Trailer-Mania doesn’t challenge Dan Halsted’s Grindhouse Trailer Spectacular for obscure finds; most of th ...   More

Brew Views Chronicling roadside Americana that technically is on the road, Automorphosis extends out of director Harrod Blank’s hobby of adorning his own Volkswagen Beetle with plaster chickens and a spinn ...   More

Brew Views If you’ve seen even five minutes of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, the subsequent hyper-macho careers of Guy Pearce and Hugo Weaving seem like a vaguely hilarious form of ove ...   More

Brew Views These days, James Bond has to have motivation for his violent actions and casual seductions. But nearly a half-century ago, a tux-clad Sean Connery just shot at baddies and face-sucked sexy foreign la ...   More

Brew Views Peter Sellers may hog all the glory for playing three roles in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, but it’s Sterling Hayden’s Gen. Jack D. Ripper who kee ...   More

Brew Views Initial reviews of Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg (including mine) mostly ignored the fact that the movie opens not with Ben Stiller’s titular master of resentment, but with a 10-minute observa ...   More

Brew Views “Jail-fucking-bait! Jack-fucking-pot!” Kim Fowley’s glee over discovering Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning) isn’t justified by The Runaways—the movie is far too tame for som ...   More

Brew Views When the voters in a British Film Institute survey named The 39 Steps the fourth-greatest British film of all time, they surely considered its stylistic importance (it cemented Alfred Hitchcock’ ...   More

Brew Views For Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese has finally found an actor who commands the screen with as magnetic a presence as his ’70s leads. The problem is that it’s not Leonardo DiCaprio, the m ...   More