Brew Views Halfway through the Spike Jonze/Charlie Kaufman peculiarity Being John Malkovich, the actor is expelled from within his own head and onto the New Jersey Turnpike, where he’s promptly beaned in t   More

Brew Views It’s a testament to Prince’s musical genius that no one remembers Purple Rain for the horrendous acting and blatant misogyny. If he hadn’t written the greatest movie soundtrack of all time t   More

Brew Views Cyril is the kid in The Kid With a Bike, and he’s got some issues. A pale, sinewy 11-year-old, he’s been discarded by his parents at a Belgian boys’ home. He’s almost feral: He scampers    More

Brew Views The title of Jeff, Who Lives at Home tells you a lot about what sort of movie this might be: downtrodden, acerbic, commuting between office parks and Mom’s basement. And for the first 45 minut   More

Brew Views “If you want the ultimate, you have to pay the ultimate price.” It’s one of the many pearls of wisdom Patrick Swayze’s Zen-surfing/bankrobbing/skydiving/beach-footballing villain Bodhi s   More

Brew Views Willem Dafoe hunts a rare tiger in the jungles of Tasmania? Sign me the fuck up! Like The Grey, whose trailer insinuated Liam Neeson would spend the movie killing wolves with his bare hands, a one   More

Brew Views The best joke of Casa de Mi Padre is that it exists at all. Nearly entirely in Spanish, with Will Ferrell playing a Mexican ranching heir alongside Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, the film is   More

Brew Views Let’s all take a moment to thank George Raft for The Maltese Falcon. Sure, he’s not actually in it—that’s why we’re grateful. The blank chorus boy with the tough-guy mug made a second ca   More

Brew Views Earlier this year, the George Lucas-produced Red Tails tried (and failed) to tell the inspiring story of the Tuskegee Airmen by resurrecting the corny, flag-waving 1940s war picture—the exact ki   More

Brew Views Essentially the Ramones’ A Hard Day’s Night, 1979’s Rock ’n’ Roll High School takes place in a parallel dimension to our own, a Bizarro World where preppy pretty boys pine after weirdo p   More