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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

The Riddle of Steel

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The summer of 1982 was the first season my movie habit really took off. It was the first time I had money and mobility enough to go to the t...
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

The October Challenge is Nigh!

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The Seventh Annual October Horror Movie Challenge begins next week. This year, I'll be doing something a bit differently. I'm going ...
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Monday, September 26, 2011

The Root of All Evil

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Before last Thursday evening, I had never seen a movie from the Congo. Oh, I had seen movies that were set there-- When We Were Kings is a ...
Saturday, September 24, 2011

Flashion Statements

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This is my entry into the Fashion in Film blogathon over at The Hollywood Revue. This is actually something I wrote quite some time ago, re...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Heart of Cinema

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This is part of the Guy Maddin blogathon over at Fandor's Keyframe blog . Thanks to Kevin Lee for inviting me to participate. Back when...
Monday, September 19, 2011

Magic and Loss

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Lee Chang-dong's new film, Poetry (2010), is the kind of film I would have squirmed my way through had I been forced to watch it when ...
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Saturday, September 17, 2011

Bad Netflix Tonight!

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Tonight is another round of Bad Netflix. Follow me on Twitter, or follow the hashtag #badnetflix. This round is being wrangled by Guts and G...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Once Too Often to the Weller

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This is my entry into the Juxtaposition Blogathon . The folks over at Pussy Goes Grrr are running this show. It's their first blogathon...
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Time Out of Mind

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I started reading science fiction just as the New Wave of the sixties and seventies was beginning to ebb and just before the cyberpunks show...
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Tuesday, September 06, 2011

What Rough Beast?

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The darkness drops again but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough bea...
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Saturday, September 03, 2011

Learning Experiences

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Well, my fundraiser ended yesterday. The good news? I raised $105. That's fabulous given the circumstances. The bad news? It's not e...
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Monday, August 29, 2011

A Night in Byzantium

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Given that he made one of the great "heist" movies in Rififi , I wonder what went through director Jules Dassin's mind when ...
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Friday, August 26, 2011

Fundraiser Update and Cultural Snapshot

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So I've covered my airfare. Rock and roll! I still need to cover the festival pass, with a little over a week to go. I'm totally in ...
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Monday, August 22, 2011

Sword in Hand, Brain in Neutral

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There's no getting around it. We're living in the dark ages of theatrical exhibition. The last two big films I saw in the multiple...
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Sunday, August 21, 2011

Assassination Games

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I don't know what I expected when I sat down to watch Takashi Miike's well-regarded 13 Assassins (2010). The second coming of Akira...
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Saturday, August 20, 2011

Send Krell Laboratories to Fantastic Fest!

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A friend of mine has invited me to Fantastic Fest in Austin Texas next month, and I'd love to go and blog the festival. Unfortunately, I...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

This is how to get me in the theater...

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I don't normally post trailers for upcoming movies, particularly since most trailers are crap these days, but I'm making an exceptio...
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Sunday, August 14, 2011

Divine Comedies

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Our erstwhile friend, the Self-Styled Siren, has a tag on her blog called " crabby dissent. " That phrase really is perfect for ...
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Friday, August 12, 2011

The Stupidest Comic Book Panel in the History of the Universe.

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This piece ran on another blog back in, wow, 2008. It more properly belongs here. Since my recent jaunt through back issues of the Swamp Thi...
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Monday, August 08, 2011

Playing the Chump

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Movies change over a lifetime. Some change a lot. I revisited Ghidorah: The Three Headed Monster (1964, directed by Ishiro Honda) over the ...
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Saturday, August 06, 2011

Regular Joes

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I'm not entirely sure why I found myself watching G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009, directed by Stephen Sommers) earlier this evening....
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Tuesday, August 02, 2011

All for One

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There's a moment in Richard Lester's The Four Musketeers (1975) in which Cardinal Richlieu orders his lackey, Rochefort to his knee...
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Sunday, July 31, 2011

Monster Mash Blogathon: It Came from Outer Space (1953)

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I was having a discussion a few weeks ago with a friend of mine about Robert Wise's The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). For a long t...
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Friday, July 29, 2011

Netflix Roulette: Night of the Comet (1984)

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I'm not ashamed to admit that when I saw the movie the roulette wheel spun up for me this week, I couldn't resist smiling. Thom Ebe...
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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Random, Drug-fueled Rambling

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This week has been a dead loss for me. I've watched a lot of stuff, but most of it comes through in fragments. I've been laid up by ...
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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Two-Faced Lovers

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I have to admit that I don't really understand all of Luis Buñuel's last film, That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), and that may ...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

Face to Face

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This originally appeared in another form on another now-defunct blog back in 2010. So, I feel kind of embarrassed that I clicked on the news...
Monday, July 18, 2011

Baboons and Ninjas

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So I did the Twitter bad movie live event last night, and it was fun. I had to bow out of the third movie because my dogs needed walking an...
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Friday, July 15, 2011

Blogorama Part V

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Short notice on this one, but I'm doing the Netflix Instant Bad Movie Marathon on Twitter tomorrow night, hosted by Mr. Gable over at Mr...
Thursday, July 14, 2011

Ungendered*: Fassbinder's A Year of 13 Moons. A Dialogue

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This was originally published a couple of years ago on another blog. I still haven't gotten around to seeing the film again. So, I final...
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