American Apocalypse: Craig Baldwin’s Spectres of the Spectrum
“An infinite number of possible worlds … and this is the worst one.”
Category: Genres
Disturbing Movies: or the Flip Side of the Real
Disturbing movies shouldn’t equivocate
DVD & Blu-ray · Music & Musicals
Wish Upon a Star! Robert Wise’s Musical Mess on DVD
or, a turkey returns
Blood Feast Revisited, or, H. G. Lewis, Keeper of the Key to All Erotic Mystery
After forty years, now serving porn as intentional camp for erotic consideration
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
“Follies” Is Right! Musical Madness at MGM
Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly barely survive Ziegfeld Follies
Asian · Crime · SF & Fantasy
Camp Carnage: Takashi Miiker’s Full Metal Yakuza
And Frankenstein begat Robocop, which begat Ken
DVD & Blu-ray · Horror · Reviews
The Doctors Are In! Jekyll & Hyde Times Three on DVD
Men are brutes literally this time
Forgotten Master: The Career of Gregory La Cava
Lubitsch wasn’t the only one with a “touch”
Distribute This! The Women Men Yearn For (Germany, 1929)
Lust in translation
The Great Marriage Debate of 1924: Lubitsch’s Masterful Silent on DVD
A pioneering entry in a rare genre: the screwball comedy of manners
Comedy · Drama · Music & Musicals
The Masked and Anonymous Carnival of Disappointment, Exploitation, and Profound Ironies
“We’re all trying to kill time, but time ends up killing us.”
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
Too Much Bing, Not Enough Fred: Holiday Inn
There’s not much room at the Holiday Inn.
Directors · Experimental & Underground · Festivals & Awards
“Too Busy Making Work!” Honoring Michael Snow at the 2004 Thessaloniki Film Festival
Painter, photographer, sculptor, composer, musician and here, seminal experimental filmmaker
I’m Not Scared: But You’ll Be
Plumbing the darkness o “sunny Italy” in the 1970s
Documentaries · Music & Musicals
Outside In: Three Documentaries on Gary Wilson, Jandek, and Song Poems
“We accept you, we accept you, gibble gobble, gibble gobble…”
Activist & Political · African American · Essays
Dancing Across Borders: Blackness That Isn’t (African) American
Can there be co-cultures instead of subcultures?
The League of Extraordinary Subtitles: Bad Translations Offer Meta Fun
“Got it into your head to stuff from the dark continent.” Got it?
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica
Lars von Trier: Pornographer?
Impossible…
Distribute This! Francisco Athié’s Vera (Mexico, 2003)
Bad day at Bedrock
Essays · Exploitation & Erotica · LGBT & Queer
Twelve-Tone Cinema: A Scattershot Notebook on Sexual Atonality
Is queerness an angry chord or a beautiful harmony?
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