Documentaries · Music & Musicals
Outside In: Three Documentaries on Gary Wilson, Jandek, and Song Poems
“We accept you, we accept you, gibble gobble, gibble gobble…”
Category: Genres
Activist & Political · African American · Essays
Dancing Across Borders: Blackness That Isn’t (African) American
Can there be co-cultures instead of subcultures?
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
Documentaries · DVD & Blu-ray · Writers & Critics
“Being There”: No Maps for These Territories on DVD
“I was just doing my job.”
Baden Boy: Peter Sehr’s Kaspar Hauser
Poor boy, long way from home
You Can’t Go Home Again: Return of the King
Maybe that’s a good thing
Capturing the Beauty of the Beast: Aileen Wuornos, Charlize Theron, and Monster
The “monster” Wuornos and why she won’t go away
A Memoir of Circumstance and Substance: My Architect
A son looks at a father and sees much more in this superb doc
What We Talk About When We Talk About Ho Meng-Hua
How to strike at the heart of a beast with the heart of a beast
Architecture as Social Commentary: The Absurdities of Il Posto
Olmi’s 1961 masterpiece comes to DVD in an excellent transfer
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