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Category: Genres
Drama · Experimental & Underground
Dogville: Or Lars von Trier’s New Old Testament
On the seventh day … he should have kept working
Drama · Experimental & Underground
Dogville: Or How Not to Discover America
Von Trier’s America may be too cartoonish for its own good
Activist & Political · Drama · Essays
Above the Revolution: The Dreamers and Alienation
“With my memories I have lit a fire.”
F for Fake: The Ultimate Mirror of Orson Welles
In which Welles deflates expectations of greatness and transcends them
Don’t Follow Leaders: Animal Mother in Full Metal Jacket
Kubrick’s shaman/artist takes on “the leaders”
On Commies, Stoolies, and Other Assorted Lowlifes: Pickup on South Street on DVD
Widmark and Peters sizzle, but Thelma Ritter steals the show
What’s The Point? The Legendary 1971 Animated Feature on DVD
In a freethinking, whimsical world, relativism reigns and there is no point … or is there?
African American · Documentaries · Music & Musicals
AfroPunk: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Nigger Experience
Making up reality: race, rock, and wrestling
American Apocalypse: Craig Baldwin’s Spectres of the Spectrum
“An infinite number of possible worlds … and this is the worst one.”
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
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