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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

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

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

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 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

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 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

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

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

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 […]
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October 2, 2021

Lichtenstein & Camus At The Movies Volume 2

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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

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

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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October 1, 2021

Lichtenstein & Camus At The Movies Volume 1

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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

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

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

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

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

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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September 29, 2021

Zapatlela! A Bollywood Musical Ventriloquist Version of Chucky

Zapatlela is a Bollywood, romcom, musical, horror, comedy. The main character is named Laksha. Picture Jerry Lewis as a lovable (not actually lovable but intended to […]
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September 29, 2021

20 Great Movie Posters You’ve Never Seen Before: Volume Three

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September 28, 2021

Before Parasite There Was Borgman

Seven years before Bong Joon-ho made Parasite, Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam released his film Borgman. The two films have superficial as well as substantive similarities in both […]
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