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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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October 31, 2021

The Balance of Form and Content in Victoria

When Sebastian Schipper chose to make the film Victoria in 2015 it was either going to be a recipe for a brilliant triumph or complete disaster. The […]
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October 31, 2021

Some Snippets From My Film Student’s Papers

I love and respect my students. I present to you some of their missteps with the greatest affection.​“Apocalypse Now film was released in 1979 by Ford […]
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October 31, 2021

Bollywood’s Naag Panchami is a Dazzling Explosion of Color

​What is it about women and snakes? Always lots a trouble with those women and their snakes. In this case it is the story of […]
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October 30, 2021

Favorite Scenes №16: Poltergeist

Tobe Hooper made Poltergeist in 1982. It’s an uneven film that is more entertaining than it is artful, but the choice to cast Zelda Rubinstein as the […]
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October 30, 2021

La Cienaga is Masterful

La Cienaga is a beautifully, and meticulously constructed film. Each facet and each scene reflects the entirety of the film. It begins as the sounds […]
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October 30, 2021

Voyage To The Prehistoric Planet

Voyage To The Prehistoric Planet was originally made in The Soviet Union by Pavel Klushantsev. Somehow B-movie Icon, Roger Coreman, got a hold of it and […]
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October 30, 2021

Stray Dogs: A Different Way of Watching Film.

Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang wrote and directed Stray Dogs in 2017. Seeing it is not like seeing other films. There are two meanings to the word see. […]
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October 30, 2021

Subject Position in Bone

The movie, Bone was released in 1972 and everything about it reflects that time frame. In 1972 Richard Nixon was president, Gloria Steinem’s published the first issue […]
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October 30, 2021

The Role of Conflict in Tomcat

This article contains spoilers. Tomcat centers around one sharp moment of horror. A single lightning bolt out of nowhere that leaves you breathless. Tomcat is […]
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October 30, 2021

Historical Philosophy en Coitus, or How I Got My Yeast Infection.

Let me begin by offering my kudos to Pornhub for providing a reliquary of obscure pornographic films from all through the ages. Beyond the landing […]
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October 30, 2021

Let The Corpses Tan

I’ve never seen a film as jam packed with cinematic acrobatics as Let The Corpses Tan. Its a hyper-stylized, over the top, morass of filmmaking. Its […]
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October 29, 2021

Favorite Scenes №15 To Catch A Thief

Hitchcock often made realism and plausibility a priority in his films. Movies like Rope, Strangers on a Train, and Psycho were meant to be seen as events that could […]
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October 29, 2021

The Headless Woman

The most salient feature of Lucrecia Martel’s 2004 film, The Headless Woman, is the insightful and meticulous observations she finds in mundane moments. The way droplets of […]
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