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October 12, 2021

Tuvalu, A Playful Homage To The History Of Film

German director, Veit Helmer, made Tuvalu in 1999. It’s a fast-paced, comical, collage that runs the gamut from experimental film to melodrama. There is a little bit […]
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October 12, 2021

A Visual Summary of Space Thing

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October 12, 2021

Streets of Fire

In 1984, the year George Orwell predicted his dystopia would come to fruition, I was in high-school. My stepfather had HBO in his home office […]
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October 12, 2021

Enjoy a Hearty Helping of Baby Blood

You know you’re in for something special when a film begins with the cooling of the earth’s crust. It takes a special kind of bravado […]
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October 11, 2021

The Land of Many Perfumes A Film For Children If They Are Mentally Resilient

The Wizard of Oz must be confusing to a young child. You have the good witch, and the bad witch, and the witch’s sister. Then there’s […]
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October 11, 2021

La Loba, A Mexican Werewolf Movie

Set the fog machine to maximum fog, cue the spooky music, pan across the graveyard. Now get a close-up of the coffin opening as a […]
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October 11, 2021

I Don’t Think I’m Allowed To Type The Title Of This Movie

I wanted a Steve Austin Doll so badly when I was little. You could look through his bionic eye and you could peel back his skin to […]
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October 11, 2021

Buddhism In The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter

BuddhismThe way Buddhism is presented in The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter reveals certain core problems with how Buddhism developed after Siddhartha’s death. Siddhartha did not write his […]
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October 11, 2021

Vibeke Idsøe’s Body Troopers

Body Troopers is a Norwegian Children’s film from 1996. It may be billed as a children’s film, and have children as the main characters but there […]
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October 11, 2021

The Swamp Of Lost Souls: The Gothic, Cowboy, Monster, Mystery Movie!

Let’s go south of the border and picture us a little scene. It’s a sweltering hot day in the Mexican countryside. The buzzards glide low […]
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October 11, 2021

Sadko, A Soviet Feast For The Eyes

Sadko was directed by Aleksandr Ptushko in 1953. It was an adaptation of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera, Sadko which in turn was based on even older Russian mythology. The […]
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October 11, 2021

The Cornucopia That Is Aadmi Aur Insaan

There is a sweet spot when it comes to Bollywood musicals and Aadmi Aur Insaan is nestled right in it. It was made in 1969, during […]
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October 11, 2021

Journey To The Center Of Time Or At Least To The Center Of A Lot Of Stock Footage

This film is sure to give you nightmares if you are a scientist. The onslaught of ridiculous inaccuracies could traumatize someone with a PhD or […]
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October 11, 2021

Noir Meets Horror In Jacques Tourneur’s Curse Of The Demon

With a name like Curse Of The Demon, I thought I was in for another typical dose of campy costumes and screaming ingénues. I didn’t even […]
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October 11, 2021

What The Hell Is Shanks?

The movie Shanks answers the question of what Tim Burton would write if he were locked in a box for a couple of years and fed a […]
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October 11, 2021

A Visual Summary of Starbabe

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October 11, 2021

Zoltan Spencer's Sisters In Leather

​If Russ Meyer and Godard got in a fist fight Russ would probably kick Godard’s ass but if after the dust settled they decided to collaborate […]
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October 11, 2021

You Are Not Ready For Heaven And Hell

Chang Cheh’s Heaven And Hell is a once in a lifetime experience that will have you slack-jawed and stunned before you can cry for help. It’s a […]
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October 11, 2021

The “Nothing But A Camera And Costume” Genre

You would need a pretty big dumpster to accommodate all the films that have been made with nothing but a camera and a costume. Films […]
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October 10, 2021

Big Meat Eater, Not Bad For A Bad Movie

Once you have the grinder set up and a bucket in place shove Pee Wee Herman in there. Wait for the bowtie to be fully […]
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October 10, 2021

Heritage And Identity In The Night of Counting the Years

As an American, I live in a place where almost nothing predates the 1600 hundreds. American history is above all short. Chicago, the city where […]
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October 10, 2021

Superzan And The Space Boy

Carmen and her father are going for stroll in the hills when they see a cheaply made flying saucer land in a field. A gold-colored […]
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October 9, 2021

Giuseppe De Santis’s Bitter Rice

There is a tension between the everyday and the cinematic that runs through Giuseppe De Santis’s 1949 film Bitter Rice. The movie is set in a […]
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October 9, 2021

The Strange Case Of Dr. Sex

Nudie Cutie movies are a very particular phenomenon. They existed for a short time in the mid-twentieth century and were designed to sell pornography without […]
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