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Poverty and Spit! Poverty and Spit! THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION (1981)
 Those of us who were punk rockers at some point in the 70s or 80s now feel old as fuck, clutching onto last ditch straws and first canes; our old hearts and puffy eyes trapped in middle aged,...
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Sever me Member, Scarlet Cinder! EX MACHINA (2015) and THE CREEPING FLESH (1973)
Is western scientific dogma really just man's elaborate defense mechanism against the arcane force of his own feminine unconscious? Has keeping a sweet young innocent locked away from the world ever...
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Summer of Streaming II: Post-Giallo Nightmare Logic la Netflix
Dream or Nightmare logic: a lazy way for European directors to just go nuts with non sequiturs and not have to worry about storyline coherence or is it a daring approach to dissociative Freudian void...
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The Metatextual Exorcist's Assistant: MAPS TO THE STARS, CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA
Film as a medium isn't old enough that it has a set response as to how to handle the 'problem' of aging A-list actresses. But two 2014 films both recently released on DVD have shown the 'old' way can...
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The New Triple Long Pig Dare Ya: SHARKNADO 3, CHOPPING MALL
I was shocked watching SHARKNADO 3, which premiered with much Shark Week-esque hooplah on Syfy last week, when one of the "live tweets" mentioned "the theme park worker," and not the Universal Orlando...
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Aussies gone Wild is Redundant: WYRMWOOD,THE ROVER
Horror festival favorite knockabout labor of love Aussie debut of brothers Kiah and Tristan Roache-Turner, WYRMWOOD: ROAD OF THE DEAD (2014) kicks off already at risk of becoming a bit too WALKING DEAD...
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Analog Hacks, Italian-disguised-as-American-Style: GHOSTHOUSE & WITCHERY (aka...
Saw AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON or 'Robots smashing Robots in endless pixelated scrimmage II." Was it entertaining? Sure, but also spectacularly uninvolving, battle-wise. There was a time when we'd dread...
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Summer of My Netflix Streaming III: Deadpan Comic Horror International
"Take any fire, any earthquake, any major disaster, then wonder." - Plan Nine from Outer SpaceSummer's in its last dying gasp and thank God. I was working on a list here of something else... something...
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The Subterraneans: RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR, SWITCHBLADE SISTERS, THE BOOGENS
As bi-polar March melts and freezes and jumps 30 degrees up and down almost every day here in NYC, I'm a veg, Danny, my SADD dragging me around like Angel tied to the back of Mapache's automóvil. My...
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Druggie Vampire Women of B&W City: A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT, THE...
If the old adage is true that no one ever thinks about you as much as you think, then and only then, Bad City, Unreal City, the City of Devils. You can at least write about how no one ever thinks of...
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Great Acid Easter Cinema: THE GREEN PASTURES (1936)
This 1936 all-black folk interpretation of the Old Testament draws 'Uncle Tom'-style flak from liberal academia, and maybe they're right (1), but on the other hand, God is portrayed as a black man (Rex...
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BabaDOOK! Jennifer Kent's Psychotropic Fairy Tale comes to Blu-ray
Most soap operas are trite, cliche'd and overwrought but doesn't mean we should dismiss Douglas Sirk; costume dramas are often barrenly obsequious but that doesn't mean we should dismiss Jane Campion;...
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Ferociously Her Iron Age Irish Bog Mummy Telekinetic Druid Sorceress...
Ireland - birthplace, perhaps, of western horror and alcoholism. When they got there "it was raining, or was about to rain, or had just rained" intones the wandering lassie narrator. Â And they got...
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If I were a guest TCM Programmer 2 - THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE, GET CRAZY,...
My last virtual TCM schedule was such an excess they said add another - and I never say no to a menage-a-trois, I just run home to call my sponsor. Or hide in the movies, and no movie hides you better...
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Gravediggers of 1933: THE INTRUDER, SECRET OF THE BLUE ROOM, BEFORE DAWN,...
As I've written in the past, 1933 was a magical year for movies, and America: it saw the election of FDR, the repeal of prohibition, and 'ahem' the rise of Hitler into power (that last part, not so...
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Harpo Out of Hell: MIAMI BLUES
There's a time to play Monopoly and a time to kick over the board and throw the play money in the air like we're motherfuckin' Scarface. Miami Blues (1990) is for that time. Those of us who love...
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She Even Breaks: Edie Sedgwick in CIAO! MANHATTAN
It's probably a sign of your mental health whether you find Warhol superstar /debauched debutante extraordinaire Edie Sedgwick's continued toplessness in Ciao! Manhattan (1972)Â sexy or just tragic. If...
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Chop Wood, Carry Sponsors: MAD MEN Finale
This weekend's TV was momentous with AMC's crown jewel ending at the beginning of the glorious Free to Be You and Me 1970s. Don Draper finally hit bottom and was in the right place at the right time to...
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What's Eating You: FOOD OF THE GODS, EMPIRE OF THE ANTS, JAWS OF SATAN, FROGS
Bert I. Gordon, one of the few schlockmeisters whose career spanned both the 1950s 'big bug movie' craze (Beginning of the End, Amazing Colossal Man, Earth vs. the Spider) and the 1970s Jaws eco-horror...
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Hauntologic Roxy: ANTICHRIST (1974), TIMES SQUARE (1980)
I consider myself pretty familiar with the myriad weaves and offshoots of the EXORCIST-ripped corners of the 70s Italian cinema tapestry, but THE ANTICHRIST (1974) slipped past me... until now. That's...
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