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November 3, 2021

A Mercifully Brief Visual Summary of Extra Terrestrian

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November 3, 2021

Voyage into Space: Know Your Target Audience

Imagine a movie made entirely by 8 year old boys. The actors, the editor, the costume designer everyone involved is 8. Then you wouldn’t be […]
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November 3, 2021

The Peculiar Case of The Curious Female

Its 1970 and you’re a struggling, low budget movie producer. You decide to invest in yourself and direct your own movie. You manage to complete your […]
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November 3, 2021

The Dark Trance of Horse Money

In writing about Pedro Costa’s film Horse Money there is no place to start. The film defies description or analysis. You have to just open yourself to […]
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November 3, 2021

Bollywood’s Devotional Film Bhaktha Prahlada

I don’t believe in reincarnation but in my past life I did. Whoever I was, I was definitely Indian. The food, the music, the mythology […]
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November 3, 2021

The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open: Storytelling In Real Time

The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open blends form and function to create a compelling narrative whole. It's proof positive that the rules of […]
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November 3, 2021

Galder Gaztelu-Urruti’s Platform

The Platform is a metaphor in the tradition of Animal Farm or Lord of The Flies. It very clearly focuses on capitalist ideology, and has […]
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November 2, 2021

Favorite Scenes №19: Pan’s Labyrinth

Guillermo Del Toro made Pan’s Labyrinth in 2006. It was a thickly layered film with several themes running through it simultaneously, each enriching the other. There is […]
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November 2, 2021

Embracing Marginalization Through Cult Films

Wrestling with the slippery taxonomy of genres is a limited activity at best. Quantifying the essential traits of what constitutes a cult film is just […]
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November 2, 2021

 Lukas Feigefeld's Spellbinding film, "Hagazussa" 

Hagazussa, directed by Lukas Feigefeld in 2017, immediately distinguishes itself through its formal choices. There is minimal dialogue. The music is mostly just stretches of […]
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November 2, 2021

Trapped in The House With “Trapped in The House”

To do my part for The Covid-19 effort I spent last night watching a film called Trapped In The House. I didn’t know what it was […]
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November 2, 2021

The Implied Narrator in We The Animals

We The Animals has no literal narrator. There is no disembodied voice leading the audience through the film, but there is a palpable sense of narration. […]
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November 2, 2021

Roagert Tai’s Ninja: The Final Duel

Buddha predicted that his teachings would be misinterpreted over the generations and devolve into nonsense. Perhaps he meant nonsense like the scene in Ninja: The […]
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November 2, 2021

Repentance: A Great Film in Danger of Disappearing.

Beginning a film with the funeral of the main character has been done before but in Repentance the morning after the funeral the deceased is found propped […]
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November 2, 2021

Ninja Hunters: One Stop Shopping For Kung Fu Movie Goers

Its Ninja Hunters’ generosity that makes it a great film. The movie overflows with everything you could want out of a classic kung fu flick. My […]
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November 1, 2021

Favorite Scenes №18: Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable

In 1973, Shunya Itō released Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable, his third installment in the Scorpion series. The opening of this movie is the most badass […]
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November 1, 2021

Fascism and The Superhero

“these iconic characters are still very much white supremacist dreams of the master race. In fact, I think that a good argument can be made […]
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November 1, 2021

Defining One End of The Spectrum: 5 of The Worst Films You Will Ever See.

Call it schadenfreude, call it masochism, call it crazy but, there is an enthusiastic horde of cinephiles out there who prefer the delights of failure to […]
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November 1, 2021

Thunderbird 6: A Gorgeous Time Capsule of Style.

I sat down to watch Thunderbird 6 for nostalgic reasons. I’d never seen the film before but I remember how hilariously cheesy the television episodes were. The […]
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November 1, 2021

Peeling Through The Layers of The Alps

When a film depicts actors playing the role of actors it inherently becomes existential. Peeking behind the curtain calls everything into question. Shakespeare makes many […]
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November 1, 2021

The Transcendent Alchemy of a Movie Called Psyched by the 4D Witch

When you drag your net along the fetid depths of cinema’s bowels there are rare occasions when you find, amidst the refuse, a truly golden […]
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October 31, 2021

Favorite Scenes №17: Mulholland Drive

David Lynch made Mulholland Drive in 2001. It was the middle film in a Los Angeles trilogy that also included Lost Highway and Inland Empire. The espresso scene […]
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October 31, 2021

Byron Mabe’s Lost Weekend In The Desert Resulted In A Movie Called The Acid Eaters

Godard famously said that all he needed to make a film was a girl and a gun. What he didn’t say was that he would […]
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October 31, 2021

She Mob, A Diamond In The Rough, Real Rough Baby!

When you are wading through the filthy muck at the bottom of the cinema barrel, its movies likWhen you are wading through the filthy muck […]
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