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Eric Jonrosh's Spoils of the Red Desert:.
Crazy gorgeous, crazy for real, unstable, reckless, spontaneous, today they'd be called bi-polar, there's a lot going on with modernist European art cinema's women. We love them and they love us back,...
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Leslie of the Heretics: DAY OF THE ANIMALS (1977)
"Speak not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. " - AhabBut to paraphrase Slim in To Have and Have Not, "what happens if it slaps you back?" The answer is that the undying...
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Phillip Seymour Hoffman b. 1967- d. today
Learning of his death today I instantly remembered meeting Phillip Seymour Hoffman once, in 1997 or so at the wrap party for Todd Solonz's Happiness (1998). My crew of willowy lounge hipsters were at a...
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Monster Capsules: BIG ASS SPIDER, WAKE WOOD, WOMAN IN BLACK, DRACULA, PRINCE...
BIG ASS SPIDER2013 - ***Director Mike Mendez is fast becoming a horror icon and Big Ass, a sometimes not wince-inducing monster movie, is proof he knows how to keep a lumbering low budget...
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Frozen Olympics of Terror! COLD PREY, WIND CHILL, DEAD OF WINTER (AKA LOST...
It's always nice to ride out the brutal storms and chills of February with horror films even more frozen than one's own emotions and landscape. Watching people shooting and skiing and luging and...
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Monster Capsules: BAD DREAMS, THE ROOST, DAMNATION ALLEY, AFTER MIDNIGHT,...
  BAD DREAMS1988 - directed by Andrew Fleming - ***This is a film that took a long hard look at the Nightmare on Elm Street box office take and said me too! They even recruit the final girl of...
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Tripping to Tortura: IN A WORLD, ADULT WORLD (2013)
Two worth-your-time 2013 films with similar themes, color schemed posters and even titles, recently made themselves, like whores, available at home: IN A WORLD is a semi-autobiographical female...
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Milla Jovovich: God's Own Avatar (+ Laymen's Guide to the Resident Evil Series)
No modern woman has spent as much screen time running in slow motion while firing two guns in 3-D towards the camera than Milla Jovovich, which considering her start as a folksy neo-hippie in Dazed and...
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Acidemic Best Films of the 1980s
Ugh, February, the month of hassles and cold and weariness. Slogging towards March like a slouchy Bethlehem that evaporates on clammy handed contact. Another March 2nd means another year older for your...
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Bitches Be Trippin': TOAD ROAD, A FIELD IN ENGLAND
I've always taken a hard line stance that idiots (and minors, of course) shouldn't use drugs. Seeing all the great drugs wasted on the snickering young in the 2012 indie Toad Road made me remember back...
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Choose Death: Revisiting TWILIGHT's Junky Delirium.
"Young girl with fire / something said she understood /I wanted to fly / she made me feel like I could...." - Neil Diamond  ("Shilo" - song about his childhood anima playmate)"but we can fly... with...
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Laureate of the Laid: Terry Southern, CANDY (1968)
Life is a latticework of coincidence whether we see it or not. Usually we don't want to see it, worried we'd go crazy if we did. With our blinders up, the coincidence matrix is less a pineal...
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Michael Cera on Mescaline: MAGIC MAGIC, CRYSTAL FAIRY & THE MAGICAL CACTUS...
Psychedelic awakening, madness, and tonto re forro puta madre yankee nonsense is afoot in Chile, and a beady-eyed blonde-tousled Michael Cera is there, a-swooping down from El Cóndor Pasa with jelly...
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Best of EK Writing 2013
As always, it seems, 2013 was a prolific year, if not as scintillating or apocalyptic as I initially hoped. If you're a casual follower of this site you may be flabbergasted, yes, flabbergasted, to...
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It's only real if you smash your mask: HER, THE WAY WE WERE, LOVE AFFAIR
O Love, thou coaxer of dopamine and norepinephrine through miserly neruological alleyways, you can cure illness, reduce obesity, turn blue meanies into pink happies, sound trumpets and sport horns like...
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Carpenter Carpet Capsules: HALLOWEEN III, YOU'RE NEXT, MACHETE KILLS, THE...
"For me it's simply an exercise in improvisation, since I can't read or write music - I just make it up as I go along. I think of the orchestral stuff as 'carpet' music - I lay a "carpet" under the...
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Prison of a Thousand Dimensions: GRAVITY, BUBBLE BOY, INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
"...Please don't shoot me into outer spaceP-P-Please Mr. Kennedy (Uh oh!)I don't wanna go (please don't shoot me into outer space)I sweat when they stuff me in the pressure suitsBubble helmet, Flash...
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Real Between Curtains: John Huston and Bree Daniels, Gamblers (KLUTE, THE...
Checking out The Maltese Falcon (1941) again--every time it's a different movie! Last time I wrote about it I saw it right after In a Lonely Place and was shocked by much that film's unflattering...
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Antichrist in Translation: UNDER THE SKIN, HABIT
Showing off scars, from top: Under the Skin, HabitUnder the Skin (2014) the new slick dark green opus from Brian Birth Glazer is a film that links up panic attacks before and after itself and signals...
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All you need is holes: WONDERWALL (1968) and the Entomological Mystery Tour
Thisbe and Pyramus loved through a hole in a wall, and that made it to Midsummer Night's Dream, so surely there's room for a 1968 Britpop film called WONDERWALL that's really more about "all the lonely...
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