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October 2, 2021
The Many Polemics In The Colossus Of New York
The Colossus Of New York has higher ambitions than just your average science fiction B movie. It takes on a wide range of different issues and […]
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October 2, 2021
Lichtenstein & Camus At The Movies Volume 12
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October 2, 2021
The Demise of The Tripod
It seems as though the tripod is being used less and less in contemporary film. I’m sure you could create a list to defend the […]
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October 2, 2021
John Waters’ Mondo Trasho
This is a profoundly unappealing film, and I’m guessing that is what John Waters was after. The whole film has a certain “fuck you” quality. […]
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October 2, 2021
The Beast Of Yucca Flats: Buy A Ticket, See A Movie.
The Beast Of Yucca Flats should be used as an educational aid in film schools. It’s a treasure trove of lessons on what not to do […]
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October 2, 2021
Eegah, Elvis Meets King Kong On A Low Budget
There are several sources that would have you believe that Eegah is the worst movie ever made, but it’s not even close. It’s many orders of magnitude […]
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October 2, 2021
Male Dynamics In Mean Streets And Mikey And Nicky
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a whole group of films was released that brought two contrasting male characters together to examine their dynamics. Midnight […]
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October 2, 2021
Latitude Zero: Come For The Costumes Stay For The Pansexual S&M Subtext
Latitude Zero has a plot and it has action but all that pales in comparison to the costumes, sets, and fetishy undertone of the film. Men […]
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October 2, 2021
Jafar Panahi’s Multi Layered Taxi Tehran
Jafar Panahi’s Taxi Tehran, also known as, Jafar Panahi’s Taxi, is a masterpiece. Not only is it an amazing piece of filmmaking but it was filmed at […]
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October 2, 2021
Nudie Girls And House Pets in Mr. Peters’ Pets
The story begins when pet shop owner, William Peters, receives a letter from Morocco which the scriptwriter seems to think is in India. The letter […]
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October 2, 2021
The Devil: A Movie That Would Make Herschel Gordon Lewis Cringe
I was enticed into watching The Devil when I happened upon a review that said watching it was like “a kick in the face.” The assessment proved to […]
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October 2, 2021
Velnio Noutaka: A Surreal Lithuanian Folk Musical
Have you ever asked yourself what sort of film would result if Buñuel tried to make a musical cross between Jesus Christ Superstar and Midsommar using the cast from Hair? […]
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October 2, 2021
Journey To The Seventh Planet Is Dumb But It’s Pretty
Journey to The Seventh Planet is dumb but it’s pretty. I’m guessing the title of the film was chosen over Journey to Uranus for obvious […]
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October 1, 2021
No One Knows Who Made Robot Love Slaves
Meet Marge and her husband Clark two crazy kids stuck in a loveless marriage. It seems that Clark is set to inherit 5 million dollars […]
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October 1, 2021
The Highs And Lows Of Tanaka’s The Demon of Mount Oe
The Demon of Mount Oe (Oe-Yama Shuten Doji) is many things. It’s gorgeous but some of the staging and effects look like low-budget pulp. It […]
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October 1, 2021
Lichtenstein & Camus At The Movies Volume 13
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October 1, 2021
Consensus In Mainstream American Cinema And Television
For the first fifty years of American mainstream cinema there was little division made between different kinds of audiences. Films presented entertainment appropriate for all […]
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September 30, 2021
Tarzan + Conan = Tarkan The Turkish Superhero!
A few months ago I wrote about my travels deep into the rabbit hole of Darna, the Philippine version of Wonder Woman. Now I have stumbled upon […]
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September 30, 2021
The Wolf House A Completely Unique Film
The Wolf House has a look and feel like nothing I’ve ever seen before. It uses stop motion animation but exploits the technique in innovative and […]
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September 30, 2021
Two Brothel Documentaries: Mustang And Chicken Ranch
On the surface Mustang: The House That Joe Built and Chicken Ranch are two remarkably similar documentaries. Both take the viewer behind the curtain to see how a successful, […]
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September 30, 2021
Crazy Love: Queer Dada
You have to be in the right frame of mind to face down the movie Crazy Love. Its overall attitude is best summed up as “Fuck […]
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September 30, 2021
Nordic Humor In The Northerners
I’m sure that the title The Northerners has some kind of special resonance in Dutch, but for me, a foreigner, the title might as well apply to […]
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September 30, 2021
Is Simon King of The Witches or Queen of The Bitches?
Bruce Kessler ’s Simon King of The Witches was released in 1971. It was surely inspired by Russ Meyer’s masterwork “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls” which […]
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