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.
Distribute This! Francisco Athié’s Vera (Mexico, 2003)
Bad day at Bedrock
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica
Lars von Trier: Pornographer?
Impossible…
The League of Extraordinary Subtitles: Bad Translations Offer Meta Fun
“Got it into your head to stuff from the dark continent.” Got it?
Quickies: Random Short Reviews from The Backyard to Dagon to What Are You Going to Do for Toilet Paper?
Tormented Christians, hacker boyz, cannibal queers, fish people you know, all those folks who keep it real
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
Fred Meets Joan Leslie, and The Sky’s the Limit
“Never let it be said little Freddie can’t carry his load”
Architecture as Social Commentary: The Absurdities of Il Posto
Olmi’s 1961 masterpiece comes to DVD in an excellent transfer
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
A Memoir of Circumstance and Substance: My Architect
A son looks at a father and sees much more in this superb doc
Capturing the Beauty of the Beast: Aileen Wuornos, Charlize Theron, and Monster
The “monster” Wuornos and why she won’t go away
Roses Without Thorns, Gains Without Pains, Love Without Tears: Mona Lisa Smile
Doctor Julia explains it all for you
You Can’t Go Home Again: Return of the King
Maybe that’s a good thing
Baden Boy: Peter Sehr’s Kaspar Hauser
Poor boy, long way from home
Documentaries · DVD & Blu-ray · Writers & Critics
“Being There”: No Maps for These Territories on DVD
“I was just doing my job.”
Down with Underrated Masterpieces! Looney Tunes: Back in Action and Down with Love
The sound of no hands clapping
Bonnie and Clyde: Together Again
Warren Beatty’s seminal sixties shoot-’em-up revisited
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