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Best Erich Writing 2015
PERIOD - END OF REPORT: Sigh... it's been a rough year so forgive the claws, self-aggrandizing self-deprecating ragged scuttling seas and bee plusses, reeling and writhing and tea trays in the sky and...
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Reeling and Writhing: ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1933)
Seldom seen since its 1933 limited release,  ALICE IN WONDERLAND, Paramount's champagne surrealism centerpiece, can stand on its head proud surrounded by to the barrage of lunatic brilliance of the...
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The Dirtbag Menace: AMY (2015)
What should it benefit the world if it should gain a talented jazz singer with an old soul, perfect pitch and a deep affinity with Ella and Monk but then lose her to a charismatic snaggle-toothed...
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Troopers of the World, there is one Bug you can not beat: the Bug inside:...
(The following was written whilst whacked out of my gourd on withdrawal sickness (withdrawal: the best drug in the world) coupled to flu-like symptoms and twelveteen shots of knockoff brand Robotussin...
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Sex, the Insoluble Deutsche Mark: MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN, 3 PENNY OPERA, THE...
It's been a long time since there could be Hollywood women characters as cool as the Babes of pre and post-Nazi Germany. Does it take economic turmoil to make dames so tough it carries over into their...
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Old Dark Capsules: THE GORILLA, WHITE COCKATOO, WHILE THE PATIENT SLEPT,...
Maybe it's an age thing (I've never been this old before, I don't recommend it) but as I careen inexorably towards my half-century mile post I'm blessed with a progressively terrible memory, a cold...
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Silence of the Uploaded Monkey: TRANSCENDENCE, AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON,...
Science fiction cinema's always had a shady obsession with artificial intelligence but never more so than in the last few years, with three major films--AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON, TERMINATOR: GENYSIS,...
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Andrzej Zulawski's Dead: An Acidemic Tribute Round-up
 I just fond it out, the great Polish Insanity Clause, Andrzej Zulawski, died last Wednesday, forcing we fans in the States to rear up and make sure all our precious Mondo Vision collector item DVDs...
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10 Reasons BATTLESHIP (2012)
In honor of Oscar night, here's the underappreciated BATTLESHIP, which asks the question, is Peter Berg the new Howard Hawks? Unlike similar blockbuster directors, he's also an actor, writer and...
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The Goat of Menses and the Fox in the Atheist-Hole: THE WITCH
Shrouded in portentous gloom and ominous droning electric cello, THE WITCH (2015) is the first great woodsy pre-Salem devil film in 300 years, a SHINING for the ANTICHRIST x BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW...
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Just Whoa Stories: Guy Maddin, Canadian Amnesiac: THE FORBIDDEN ROOM (2015)
If you'd wondered casually where Guy Maddin's been all these weeks, months, years, the answer is that he has been everywhere yet never more than two or three feet in any direction, the same scope as a...
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A Jet-lagged Hayride with Dracula: LOST IN TRANSLATION, THIS GUN FOR HIRE
"As for fidelity, should one not be faithful to all those whom one loves?" - Robin Wood  Watching the weird nocturne noir chemistry cohere like a ghost from the black and white celluloid mist of This...
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The whores in hors d'oeuvres: A QUIET PLACE IN THE COUNTRY
"Bring on the multitudes with a multitude of fishes:feed them with the fishes for liver oil to nourish the Artiststretch their skin upon an easel to give him canvas,crush their bones into a paste that...
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5 Awesomely Psychotronic films on Amazon Prime can Prepare YOU for the coming...
Even casual Americans will soon be called to bear witness to what promises to be the most bizarre elections in the history of our democracy, the battle between the mighty Donald, his hair...
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Take out the Kids and Tuck in the Trash: #HORROR (2015)
An ICE STORM of constant cyber-bullying and vaporwave orgiastic trances, a John Cassavetes version of GOSSIP GIRL after he'd just seen SUSPIRIA and thought it was a video art installation by Matthew...
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Pineal Express: FROM BEYOND, LUCY, SPECTRE, THE MAGICIANS
Whenever someone like Warner Herzog starts talking about dreams there's a kind of stale bourgeois abstraction to the word, like some doctoral declawing of what is in 'reality' a vivid brutal fiction....
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Through the Woodsman: DOG SOLDIERS, THE FINAL TERROR, WITHOUT WARNING, THE...
The woods --alternately intriguing and tired, a 'free' way to draw value from trees that's less damaging than clear-cutting. Shit in the woods = archaic. Lost in the woods = easy to happen. Conclusion:...
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Prepare for the Coming of the Hillary Matriarchy with these 5 Psychotronic...
From fish god cults to a cockeyed MAD MAX: FURY ROAD premake to maternal body horror so unseemly no one's dared try anything remotely like it in 30 years, these five psychotronic films predict the the...
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Exit the Navel: MARON, DICE
It's a swell time to be an older, white, straight male with a giant ego, a trunk full of dues-paying and/or top-of-the-world VH1 reveries... because chances are you have your own show either on IFC,...
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5 Psychotronic Gems on Netflix: Badass Babes for a Bernie Nation
By popular request, here's the idealistic third entry in the Streaming Future canon, five films that reflect a grass roots toughness in places where grass is rare. Psychotronic in their outlaw spirit,...
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