Tag: danielclowes

It’s often difficult to review Criterion releases, because it tends to involve putting into words your feelings about your ‘favorite movie’. This term, when spoken by me, doesn’t hold much weight among my friends, more so, groans and eye rolls...

Ever since Wilson’s father passed away, he’s been feeling more lost than usual. The strangers he attempts to befriend, scene after scene, are no consolation as most people are suspicious of talkative types who behave too friendly too quickly. It’s...

Ever since Wilson’s father passed away, he’s been feeling more lost than usual. The strangers he attempts to befriend, scene after scene, are no consolation as most people are suspicious of talkative types who behave too friendly too quickly. It’s...

I had no idea what to expect when I received Shut Up Little Man! in the mail. I'd heard that it was good, but I didn't bother seeking out any other information on the film. It was a film that...

[With Matthew Bate's documentary opening in limited release tomorrow in the U.S. we now revisit Peter Gutierrez's review from this spring.]For one of the most compelling documentaries I've seen on media in a long time (and I take in a...

Often the real power of a good documentary is to fascinate and have a viewer hooked even if they aren't already interested in or don't have existing knowledge of the subject matter at hand. That's exactly what happened to me...

Call Matthew Bates' Shut Up Little Man: An Audio Misadventure a sort of punk rock Errol Morris picture and you're not too far off the mark. Bates shows the same loving fascination with the peculiar and outcast combined with the...

In 1987 Eddie and Mitch, a pair of mid-western punks, moved into a low rent San Francisco apartment, warned at the last minute that their neighbors could be a bit loud. That was an understatement.Eddie and Mitch would soon be...