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The Primal Scenesters
(NOTE: TWIN PEAKS SPOILERS)Thanksgiving has come and gone, other holidays roll around and everyone with parents still alive slide into their special roles as composites of past versions of themselves...
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Myrna Loy: December's Salve
The holidays is a time for joy, giving, family, religious or cultural iconography, cold, boredom, old people smells, excited new dogs, alcoholism, despair, sunshine, candy caning, and-- saving every...
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"I never said it wasn't terrible" - 10 quasi-terrific Sci-Fi curios streaming...
Signs and wonders. I'll give you the names, and you say 'yes' or 'no,' - The Toe Cutter, Ib Melchoir, Elio Petri. Hey, if you need something to help put the kids to sleep, or have a need for something...
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Best of 2016
A dirty super dude/mutant lying back in a speeding garbage truck: is there a more apt image for the year? Considering all the other BLACK MIRROR stuff going on America shouldn't be too surprised it's...
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Post-American Pride: DEATH RACE 2050 (Roger Corman Lives!)
Brought Gulliver-low through Lilliputian micro-managerial fascism on the one side and kamikaze cabinet-casting by a rabid right on the other, America--by which I mean me, the ghost of Woody Guthrie,...
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The Acidemic Table of Contents
The way things are going, man, who knows... so I wanted to present the entirety of links and posts thus far in a handy page rather than just the usual link sidebar (many of which disappeared in the...
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Bell, Book, and Hallucinogenic Tampon: THE LOVE WITCH (2016)
"Men are very fragile. They get crushed down if you assert yourself in any way." notes our love-junky Wiccan Elaine (Samantha Robinson), voiceovering in her vintage convertible down Highway 101 from...
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"Come and get your yarbles!" ZARDOZ: British Acid Cinema v. 1
Once upon a distant English future, or stretch of its past long buried in the bog and/or under small beach pebbles of Stonehenge-y time, savages in maskies roamed the English countryside, raping and...
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At long last, lost Lewtons (Shhh): ZOMBIES ON BROADWAY, THE FALCON AND THE COEDS
Val Lewton -- a man whose oeuvre of quite poetic B-movie horrors we knew even in the 80s of Central Jersey suburbia. If his movies were merely subtle and shadowy noir-horror ('noirror'), mere wisps of...
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10 Reasons LIFEFORCE (1985)
True story - I was staying with my buddy Alan at his grandparents' cottage in Cape May for the summer of '85 and they dropped us off to see LIFEFORCE, by which I mean, to see THE GOONIES which was...
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International Hallucinosis Part 1: 12 Cool/Weird Italian Films Streaming Free...
Amazon Prime just keeps getting better and weirder. Recently a whole plethora of great Japanese and Italian titles have come tumbling forth (just ask.... the Axis). So many it will take many posts to...
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Ten Strange Films you should maybe Tape (April on TCM)
This being their first month without dear Robert (who died March 6th), I extend special love and encouragement to the TCM. So here's my culling of ten films worth taping. When I was a youth all the...
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Warren William, Vol. 2: A Perry Masonic Moveable Feast Outside the Gates of Eden
Now more than ever, and you know why, we need to examine the pre-code films of Warren William. Expert as a cruel capitalist, he's got plenty of moxy and wit and though way more charismatic than a...
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Schlock and Aww: BC BUTCHER and the Kansas Bowling Miracle
Could our current Alt-Right Hype-Bart macho backwash moment be the last gasp of a drowning buffalo? If so, it's a comfort that what is best in man, his ability to celebrate and pay tribute to strong...
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14 Must-tapes in May on TCM
May, a magical month on TCM, rich with Clark Gable pre-codes, surreal anti-war parables (all the rage before Pearl Harbor) and war celebrations (for Memorial Day). As Richard Dix says in ACE OF ACES,...
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Burnt Persona Jessica Drives Again (to Death, Sister): SWEET, SWEET LONELY...
Rolling through the ghostly corridors of a lonely girl's small town 70s American mind, via director A.D. Calvo, rides a retro-homage to the young girl-sunk-to-madness horror films of auld. SWEET, SWEET...
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Anti-Authority Nowhere Land: CONVOY (1978)
America needs a hero again, c'mon back Rubber Ducky 10-4 and remember that song "Convoy" by ole Cash McCall. Sure, now that the trucker craze is decades gone and it just sounds like some grizzled old...
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Pitt Daddy Blasts Again: WAR MACHINE + All-Out War Acidemic Memorial Day...
I never fought in a real war, but growing up we played war with cap guns or plastic Uzis and I had HO scale planes dogfighting over my bed; I don't have to tell you how bad things are today with their...
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Wakers from the Dream of Now: THE VOID, BEYOND THE GATES, DARK DUNGEONS
TWIN PEAKS is happening again; Agent Cooper has returned in different places as different selves; DANGER 5 is no longer on Netflix, but THE LOVE WITCH is. Things from the past come back yet nothing...
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This is the (Dead) Girl: CASTING JONBENET, MULHOLLAND DR.
If you have Netflix and three-ish hours on your hands, why not bow your cowboy mouth down below your skies-are-not-cloudy and ride along in the buggy with "the Cowboy" to a double-feature shivaree fit...
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