Classic Film Smackdown!: MCGINTY vs GODFREY
The Great McGinty, Preston Sturges’ directorial debut and one of my personal favorites from his all-too-brief filmography, was on TCM the other night and I caught it from about the[…]
MOONTIDE, Morgan & Remorae
It’s been lowtide for good classic DVD releases since… since last freakin’ spring! Warner Brothers is dumping the dregs out like a fish peddler on a rainy Sunday night –[…]
The Commodification of Anna Faris
I first noticed Anna Faris in the Scary Movie franchise in which she parodieamong other things, Neve Campbell’s role in Scream. Following that, Faris provided expert comic relief playing supporting[…]
Ten Cents a Dance!
TCM had another one of their Stanywck days today, and tivo nabbed me TEN CENTS A DANCE (1931). Stanwyck is on a great slow burn here, starting out as a[…]
Book review: Harlan Ellison’s Watching (Reissue), by Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison’s Watching (Reissue) Harlan Ellison. Milwaukee: M Press, 2008 (1989). Paperback, $12.95, 465pp. ISBN: 978-1-59582-056-3 We want to believe that great writing happens in solitude, during nighttime hours in which[…]
Once there was a protest against a satire about a film within a film…
I’m sure this is the fifteenth thing you’ve read today about the TROPIC THUNDER scandal, vis a vis “Once upon a time, there was a retard…” but if you haven’t,[…]
Experimental & Underground · Reviews
The Eye Like a Strange Balloon (Guy Maddin 1995)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSZYkv4Ad2Q] Canadian Guy Maddin is virtually unique among contemporary filmmakers in that despite having made nine features – including The Saddest Music in the World, Brand Upon the Brain, and[…]
Jack Hill Speaks
Director Jack Hill took the time to send along his thoughts on Noah Berlatsky’s article “Men in Women-in-Prison: Masochism, Feminism, Fetish” in the most recent issue of Bright Lights. Hill,[…]
A Mad Tea Party – Alice in Wonderland (Jonathan Miller 1966)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrTfEk2P9nw] When it comes to Lewis Carroll adaptations, Tim Burton’s upcoming 3-D Alice has a lot of competition. The IMDB lists 24 versions of Alice in Wonderland, including Burton’s, and[…]
Music, Morricone, and Jack Nicholson’s Voice: The Soundscape of Wolf
“Suddenly my senses are all incredibly acute … I’m different, more alive, stronger … “
Ghosts of the Present: On Aditya Assarat’s Wonderful Town
“The film is both a bittersweetlove story and a memorial to the tsunami victims.”
Essays · Exploitation & Erotica · Genres
Men in Women-in-Prison: Masochism, Feminism, Fetish
“Nobody wants to pay to becastrated anymore.”
Across the Universe: Julie Taymor Made the Most Spectacular Film of the Year
Too bad nobody noticed
Getting Better All the Time: The 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
But lose the red carpet
Directors · Horror · Interviews
Object in Mirror May Be Closer Than It Appears: Stuart Gordon Talks about Horror, the Absurd, and Stuck
“These two people are stuck in life.”
Queer Quickies: Random Short Reviews from The Bubble to When I Knew
“The gays they make too much big crazy!”
To Slap a Dame: Sexual Violence in the Age of Reason
“Skip is the only one that enacts incest with one hand and bats away communists like flies from a dung pile with the other.”
Psycho: Queering Hitchcock’s Classic
We have met the cross-dressing closeted maniac, and he is us
The Misery Business: In Which Your Agent Will Be Lauren Bacall
And your ankles will still bebroken
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