Commodifying Desire: Rodrigo Bellot’s Sexual Dependency
Where is the love?
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?
On Commies, Stoolies, and Other Assorted Lowlifes: Pickup on South Street on DVD
Widmark and Peters sizzle, but Thelma Ritter steals the show
Activist & Political · African American · Essays
Dancing Across Borders: Blackness That Isn’t (African) American
Can there be co-cultures instead of subcultures?
Documentaries · Music & Musicals
Outside In: Three Documentaries on Gary Wilson, Jandek, and Song Poems
“We accept you, we accept you, gibble gobble, gibble gobble…”
I’m Not Scared: But You’ll Be
Plumbing the darkness o “sunny Italy” in the 1970s
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
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.”
The Great Marriage Debate of 1924: Lubitsch’s Masterful Silent on DVD
A pioneering entry in a rare genre: the screwball comedy of manners
Distribute This! The Women Men Yearn For (Germany, 1929)
Lust in translation
Forgotten Master: The Career of Gregory La Cava
Lubitsch wasn’t the only one with a “touch”
DVD & Blu-ray · Horror · Reviews
The Doctors Are In! Jekyll & Hyde Times Three on DVD
Men are brutes literally this time
Asian · Crime · SF & Fantasy
Camp Carnage: Takashi Miiker’s Full Metal Yakuza
And Frankenstein begat Robocop, which begat Ken
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
Disturbing Movies: or the Flip Side of the Real
Disturbing movies shouldn’t equivocate
You Look Pretty Splendid Yourself, Orson: A Conversation with Curtis Harrington
On unfinished projects and friendship
Quickies: Random Short Reviews from Al Adamson to Doing Time, Doing Vipasanna to Scopitones
“Love tramps seduced by creatures from the grave! Yesterday they were cold and dead today they’re hot and bothered!”
African American · Documentaries · Music & Musicals
AfroPunk: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Nigger Experience
Making up reality: race, rock, and wrestling
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
Too Much Bing, Not Enough Fred: Holiday Inn
There’s not much room at the Holiday Inn.
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