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Adam Resurrected

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:50:45 PDT

Scenes are crosscut with 1961 Adam in Tel Aviv, where he's confined to a mental institution with other Holocaust survivors. This section shifts from Patch Adams bathos to Awakenings pathos (though...

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Dead Girl

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:49:37 PDT

Sex with an attractive girl with no emotional strings attached? Sounds like what dreams are made of for many dudes — just look at Craigslist. If that hot girl was actually more room temperature and...

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Surveillance

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:03:26 PDT

Surveillance would have felt more at home in the early ‘90s as a fast follow-up to her initial outing, Boxing Helena, as many of the characters feel as if they’ve been taken from her dad’s playbook.

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Alien Trespass

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:35:54 PDT

Opening up with a newsreel that sets up Alien Trespass as a “lost film” from the ‘50s, viewers will find that R.W. Goodwin’s film is a faithful recreation of sci-fi films from the era.

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Absurdistan

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:00:18 PDT

Taking a cue from the Lysistrata playbook, the women of the village put the brakes on the lusty behavior of the men folk until the water flows again. Laziness, however, proves a greater force than...

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The Mutant Chronicles

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:21:24 PDT

Based on a Swedish role playing game, Mutant Chronicles feels like an epic tale whittled down to a “made for TV” length, sacrificing story and sense in an attempt to make a rip-roaring action film.

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The Chaos Experiment

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:58:31 PDT

Six actors are locked a steam room. This sounds like a good set-up for a joke or a new R. Kelly song but it doesn’t make for too good of a movie.

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Inglourious Basterds

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:50:30 PDT

The script has a group of Jewish soldiers going after Nazis with a vengeance during WWII. Lead by Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), his “Basterds” strike fear in the hearts of German soldiers due to their...

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Witch Hunt

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:22:58 PDT

From its inflammatory title, Witch Hunt (narrated by Sean Penn) pulls no punches in presenting 1980s paranoia in Kern County, Calif., where a dozen people were accused and falsely convicted of child...

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Martyrs

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:01:00 PDT

You can't be in a French torture porn flick and not be a chick with a bad haircut. That's what Haute Tension, Fronti�re(s), and now Martyrs have proven. Like those previous Midnight Madness entries,...

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The Burrowers

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:54:12 PDT

It doesn't take long for the action to get under way in this 2008 horror Western, and there's a mystery afoot even before the opening credits. The film opens in the Dakota Territories, 1879, with the...

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Chrysalis

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:39:22 PDT

A by-the-numbers cop flick with sci-fi elements, this French policier is tired, hardly the slick thriller it so wanted to be. Car crashes, cracking gunfire and fistfights attempt to break up the...

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Willie Dynamite

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:34:29 PDT

It isn't every host of your favorite childhood show that can keep his pimp hand strong and make you believe it but that's what Roscoe Orman did in Willie Dynamite. Yes, "Gordon" from Sesame Street...

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Choke

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:14:19 PDT

This being the second film adapted from a Chuck Palahniuk novel, the comparisons to Fight Club have to be made. Both stories have protagonists plumbing their own depths via self-help groups and...

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The Celluloid Closet

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:49:23 PDT

Kind of a That's Entertainment of homosexuality, The Celluloid Closet tells the tale of gay and lesbian characters in Hollywood cinema. Based on the book by Vito Russo, directors Rob Epstein and...

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The Outrage

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:06:23 PDT

While watching The Outrage, you can almost hear a studio exec chomping his cigar and growling, "You know what would make that Rashomon movie better? Will Shatner, that's what." Sure, a little Shat...

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Passion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:05:34 PDT

There are two distinct storylines in Emiko Omori and Wendy Blair Slick's 2007 documentary: the history of technology used to aid female orgasms and the story of Joanne Webb, a Texas woman who was...

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Knock Off

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:00:40 PDT

If you’re an action star, you should run (not walk) away from Rob Schneider. Only three years after he was the “comedic” sidekick slung like an albatross around Sly Stallone’s neck in Judge Dredd,...

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The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:02:57 PDT

If you aren’t aware of it, let me let you in on a little secret… Walter Matthau kicks ass. Known more for the Neil Simon comedies he did with Jack Lemmon, Matthau should best be remembered for a...

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Prayer of the Rollerboys

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:29:22 PDT

There were several rollerblade flicks to grace screens in the late eighties and early nineties (Solarbabies, Rollerblade 7, Roller Blade Warriors), but only one had the vision to cast one of the Two...

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Fanboys

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:48:16 PST

If you've ever seen a road comedy movie, then you've seen Fanboys. It takes the lesser parts of Todd Haynes's Road Trip and Blair Hayes's Bubble Boy mixed with Peter Haynes's 2003 short film Fanboys...

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God's Cartoonist: The Comic Crusade of Jack Chick

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:43:19 PST

Even if you don't know the name, you've certainly seen the conspicuous 3-by-5-inch pamphlets at the local shopping mall, bowling alley, library or phone booth. These so-called "Chick Tracts" are the...

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Graphic Sexual Horror

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:19:53 PST

That there can be beauty found in torture proves to be the troublesome core of Graphic Sexual Horror, a look at Insex.com, a website that pushed the boundaries via its use of extreme bondage and...

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Viva

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:50:41 PST

Set in 1972 Los Angeles, Viva is a heavily saturated and slightly sedated homage to Radley Metzger's winning and slinky skin flicks. Writer-director Anna Biller stars as the titular Viva, a...

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The Minoru Kawasaki Collection

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:49:47 PST

The films of Minoru Kawasaki are unrepentantly silly. Featuring masked wrestlers, crazed monsters and soccer-playing crabs, Kawasaki has a flair for the absurd. Synapse Films recently unleashed three...

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Sukiyaki Western Django

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:31:45 PST

The line between Japanese samurai films and Italian Westerns (that'd be "spaghetti" in the West and "macaroni" in the East) has been blurry from the days of Akira Kurosawa and Sergio Leone.

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Waterworld

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:31:12 PST

This soggy saga stands among a select few films whose troubled productions and bloated budgets still haunt Hollywood. Jokingly referred to as "Fishtar," the film is more accurately derided as Kevin's...

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White Dog

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:30:40 PST

Kristy McNichol's Julie Sawyer accidentally nails a dog with her car on a lonely California highway. The beautiful white German shepherd lives and she falls for him, and, of course, he for her. The...

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Going Full Retard

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:01:05 PDT

The film-within-a-film, Simple Jack, serves to exemplify the lengths to which some actors go for Oscarbait. Rather than being offended by Simple Jack or the discussion of past performances of famous...

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Double Fantasy: The Deaths of John Lennon

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:14:09 PDT

In what’s become a standard bit of movie synchronicity, two films that tread the same ground were premiered less than six months apart. The two Mark David Chapman films haven’t captured many...

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Martyrs

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:18:03 PDT

You can't be in a torture porn movie in France without being female and having a bad haircut. That's what Haute Tension, Fronti�re(s), and now Martyrs have proven. Like those previous Midnight...

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RockNRolla

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:53:12 PDT

After torturing audiences with unnecessary remake of and metaphysical mobster flick , some feared that Guy Ritche's once-promising career had nose-dived into the shitter.

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The Wizard of Gore

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:54:27 PDT

The glut of horror film remakes in the 21st century has seen far more failures than successes. Luckily, Jeremy Kasten managed to make an exception to the general rule with his 2007 work, The Wizard...

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The Man

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:47:40 PDT

At the 2008 Academy Awards ceremony host Jon Stewart observed that "normally when you see a black man or woman president, an asteroid is about to hit the Statue of Liberty." These progressive...

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Postal

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:45:38 PDT

Written by Boll and Bryan C. Knight, everything about Postal is meant to entertain by being offensive. Boll's compared his film to "classic Monty Python" though it's closer to "current South Park."...

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Death Race

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:24:41 PDT

“Death Race” is a three day event wherein a handful of drivers square off on the circular track at Terminal Island prison.

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Kenny

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:23:37 PDT

A production of the Jacobson clan, the film was co-written by and stars Shane Jacobson as Kenny Smythe. He heads a work crew at Splash Down, one of Melbourne’s premiere porta-pottie companies. He...

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Brand Upon the Brain

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:00:35 PDT

Similar in structure to Maddin’s Cowards Bend the Knee, Brand Upon the Brain is “a remembrance in twelve chapters” featuring Guy Maddin (Erik Steffen Maahs) returning to his childhood home—an...

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Privilege

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:08:14 PDT

The most lavish project director Peter Watkins has tackled, Privilege tells the story of Steven Shorter (Manfred Mann frontman Paul Jones), whose stage act enjoys national prominence in Britain; it's...

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Inglorious Bastards

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:19:53 PDT

By 1977, World War II films were out of vogue. And that year's Inglorious Bastards is simply a derivative reworking of elements from classic WWII fare such as The Great Escape and Kelly's Heroes. The...

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Dirty Money

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:19:24 PDT

A black car rolls into a coastal town. While waves crash on the rocky shore, three men slip out and enter a nearby bank. It's nearly closing time and the gun-toting gents are there for a withdrawal —...

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WarGames 2: The Dead Code

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:05:37 PDT

Computers can do anything! If you've seen cyberthrillers like Untraceable, The Net or Antitrust, you know that for a fact. We've come a long way from 1983's seminal computer flick WarGames where...

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Max & The Junkmen

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:12:48 PDT

Nothing pleases Max (Michel Piccoli) more than busting criminals. He spent his early years as a judge where he saw too many crooks get off on technicalities and bad police procedure. He gave up the...

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High & Low

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:49:46 PDT

Far above the sprawling urban squalor looms the palatial home of Kingo Gondo (Toshiro Mifune), an executive in National Shoes. Working his way up from nothing, Gondo prides himself on being a...

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Classe Tous Risques

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:09:01 PDT

French crime films originate from a rather small gene pool. A handful of series noir writers provided its characters that were portrayed by a limited number of actors in films helmed by a select...

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What's Your Point, Honey?

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:29:07 PDT

In all likelihood Hillary Clinton isn’t going to be the first female vice-president of the United States. A combined effort between The White House Project and COSMOgirl, Project 2024 has been...

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Hell's Ground

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:43:45 PDT

Directed by Lollywood film expert Omar Khan (thehotspotonline.com) and produced by the bizarro movie connoisseurs Mondo Macabro, Hell's Ground is a case of too many good things coming together to...

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Megaforce

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:53:08 PDT

Stuntman turned actor/director Hal Needham provided one of Golden Harvest’s biggest hits with The Cannonball Run which blended disaster film-style casting and coast-to-coast racing. His follow-up...

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Once More into the Porn, Dear Friends

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:43:02 PDT

Rounding out the Star Wars rip-off cycle is the second porn parody, Sex Wars in which the verbose Brinker Duo and his slightly seen sidekick Mark Starkiller come across Princess Layme, who hires them...

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Turkish Delight

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:54:05 PDT

The most blatant of the Star Wars rip offs, �etin Inan�’s work actually uses clips from Lucas’s film in the opening sequence of The Man Who Saves the World. The clips are run forwards, backwards, and...

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To Infinity and Back

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:06:50 PDT

There’s a lot of groaning to be heard when watching William Sach’s 1980 flick Galaxina. Starring Playboy playmate Dorothy Stratten, you’d hope that the groans would be coming from the screen with...

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Spaghetti Space Operas

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:57:53 PDT

For the production of Luigi Cozzi’s 1978 film Starcrash, more money was spent on eye makeup than for special effects. The film’s protagonist, Stella Star (Caroline Munro) wears gobs of mascara and...

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Japanese Whispers

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:23:15 PDT

In Wakusei Daisenso, a team of United Nations astronauts climb aboard the Gohten and head to Venus to rescue June, who’s been outfitted in a pair of leather panties and bustier while held captive by...

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From Brazil with Love

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:46:28 PDT

One of a long series of films starring the Trapalh�es, a Brazilian musical “comedy” troupe, this painful flick has the group helping Prince Flick find the other half of a “brain computer” to defeat...

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Star Babe

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:49:57 PDT

Not surprisingly, it was the porn industry who first cashed in on Star Wars phenomenon. Known for quickie knockoffs of current hits (Edward Penishands, anyone?), Star Babe was helmed by...

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Assassination Week Pt. 5: Winter Kills

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:50:43 PDT

Richard Condon penned Winter Kills twenty six years after he wrote The Manchurian Candidate. The latter serves as a fitting counterpoint to the former as Winter Kills is a fairly accurate, albeit...

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Assassination Week Pt. 4: Parallax View

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:53:03 PDT

The 1970s were a Golden Age for assassination films. The cynicism harvested by Watergate gave new life to conspiracy theories while mourning the loss of innocence that the Kennedy/King assassinations...

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Assassination Week Pt. 3: The Price of Power

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:02:47 PDT

Though Van Johnson may play a character named James Garfield and claims to be the twentieth President of the United States, that’s where the historical accuracy of Tonino Valerii’s The Price of Power...

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Assassination Week Pt. 2: Suddenly

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:37:59 PDT

Before Frank Sinatra was trying to foil an assassination attempt in The Manchurian Candidate (1962), he was intent on knocking off the Commander in Chief in Suddenly. As John Baron, Sinatra brings...

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The Tall Target

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:58:53 PDT

John Kennedy doesn’t take shit from anybody. He’s discovered a plot to kill Abraham Lincoln on a stop in Baltimore on the way to his inauguration. When his boss at the New York police headquarters...

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The Cleaner

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:02:02 PDT

Pity poor Renny Harlin. The Finnish director is still trying to recover from the 1995 debacle Cutthroat Island. His last few films have been lucky to even snag a U.S. theatrical release much less a...

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Digging the Bones of Indy Jones

Wed, 28 May 2008 11:38:04 PDT

"How much of human life is lost in waiting?" asks Professor Harold Oxley (John Hurt) in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. In the case of the fourth (and newest) Indiana Jones...

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Love Not Given Lightly

Wed, 21 May 2008 11:37:09 PDT

The whip cracks, a man moans; is it pleasure or pain he's feeling? Is there even a difference? Well, to any submissive worth his weight in salty tears, there isn't much. And the safe, sane, and...

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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Thu, 22 May 2008 10:48:06 PDT

Hold on to your hats (and your whips and guns), Indiana Jones is back. The Jones saga has survived the near two decade hiatus, returning free of dismal comic relief, extraneous characters, and cutesy...

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Speed Racer

Fri, 09 May 2008 11:07:26 PDT

Monkeys are funny. Poop can be funny too. That said, Speed Racer must simply be hysterical since it has both. It also has a lot of pretty colors that dazzle the eyes and befuddle the mind.

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The Ninth Configuration

Thu, 08 May 2008 14:43:13 PDT

Somewhere in the Northwest United States stands the creepiest castle on the continent. It’s become the asylum for a dozen or so washed-up soldiers who cracked under pressure. From out of the thick...

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Zero Hour

Wed, 07 May 2008 15:47:42 PDT

If you’ve seen Airplane! then you’ve seen Zero Hour, though you may not be aware of it. In the museum of 1970s disaster films, an entire wing is dedicated to airplane-themed films.

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Pretty Poison

Tue, 06 May 2008 14:04:27 PDT

“The world has no place for fantasies,” learns parolee Dennis Pitt (Anthony Perkins) after he meets apple-pie sweet Sue Ann Stepanek (Tuesday Weld). He first spies her bearing the flag in her high...

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Full Contact

Mon, 05 May 2008 14:30:37 PDT

Hong Kong action meets Cannon Film sensibility in Ringo Lam’s Full Contact. The film opens with a robbery where audiences meet baddies Judge, Virgin, and Deano. A motley band of outlaws, Deano is a...

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Iron Man

Sat, 03 May 2008 10:51:02 PDT

Tony Stark makes you feel that he’s a cool exec with a heart of steel. However, he’s really a wounded loner who hides his hurt with booze, broads, and banter. Luckily, Jon Favreau’s Iron Man isn’t a...

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20th Century Oz

Mon, 05 May 2008 10:44:57 PDT

Teenage groupie Dorothy is living in the land down under where she and her pal Jan spend Friday evenings at the local youth center catching unknown musical groups like Wally and the Falcons. Hitching...

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Quintet

Thu, 01 May 2008 14:23:38 PDT

The first thing a viewer notices about Robert Altman’s science fiction film is how dirty the camera’s lens is. The edges of the frame seem smeared, lending the film a dreamy, flashback quality....

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Dinah East

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:21:43 PDT

Released the same year as Michael Sarne’s Myra Breckinridge, this is a lower rent but far more successful interpretation of similar themes. When a lecherous mortician takes an opportunity to see Ms....

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Carnal Knowledge

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:09:17 PDT

What the hell happened to Mike Nichols? The director once delivered consistent films that held up a mirror to American bourgeoisie society with such poignant fare as The Graduate and Who’s Afraid of...

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American Cannibal: The Road to Reality

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:12:59 PDT

A mock-you-mentary about the business of so-called “reality” television, American Cannibal mixes talking head interviews with TV producers, writers, marketers, and stars with the story of an...

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The Cars That Ate Paris

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:16:37 PDT

Poor Arthur Waldo. The painfully soft-spoken man is deathly afraid of driving after accidentally killing a man, and then he has the bad luck to pass through Paris, Australia where the local economy...

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Decoy

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:33:35 PDT

This seldom seen film noir was recently rescued from obscurity by the 'Film Noir Classics Collection.' The film stars Jean Gillie and was intended to be a showcase for her talents by her husband,...

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Over The Top

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:32:35 PDT

Cannon Pictures bet the farm on Over the Top, and it lost. The story of a trucker named Lincoln Hawk (Sylvester Stallone) reuniting with his estranged son, Michael, through a road trip and a series...

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Living Dead Girl

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:01:00 PDT

“I’m not a goddamn photographer, I’m an actress,” screams American tourist Barbara at her husband Greg. Apparently he’s as unconvinced as the audience.

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Chosen Survivors

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:11:24 PDT

Helicopters arrive, laden with the chosen few plucked from their everyday lives and allowed entrance to a secret bunker set into a mountainside. They’ve been hand selected as American’s next best...

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Hero and The Terror

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:18:29 PDT

Danny “Hero” O’Brien doesn’t like to wait for backup, especially when he’s hot on the trail of superhuman serial killer Simon Moon. But if you were Chuck Norris, would you wait around for other cops...

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Crime Wave

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:55:13 PDT

“Once a crook, always a crook,” is the belief of Lieutenant Sims (Sterling Hayden), the tough-talking cop who’s convinced ex-con Steve Lacey (Gene Nelson) has his hands in a filling station heist...

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Queen of Outer Space

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:57:10 PDT

Planet Earth may be in mortal danger, and it’s up to Professor Konrad to uncover the perilous mystery that threatens us all. He’s being chaperoned to Space Station A by a three man crew: Captain Neal...

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Kiler

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:13:31 PDT

Poor Jurek Kiler (Cezary Pazura). He was in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong gun in the trunk of his taxi. Now he’s staring down the barrel of a gun, son of a gun, accused of being...

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Mr. Freedom

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:25:38 PDT

The animosity between the US and France has yet to be settled. This longstanding rivalry between the two red, white, and blue countries is at the center of William Klein’s 1969 superhero farce Mr....

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Cobra Woman

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:20:13 PDT

Snakes. Why’d it have to be snakes? Perhaps because snakes are the most phallic creature to crawl the Earth, and only the alluring Maria Montez can tame them. Montez stars as Tollea, a woman with a...

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Blast of Silence

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:33:20 PDT

Asking a group of cinephiles what film ended the film noir cycle is akin to throwing raw meat to a pack of wild dogs. If you’re not careful, you’re liable to lose a finger.

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Nightmare Alley

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:29:22 PDT

Tyrone Power works the Ten-in-One as Stan Carlisle, a front man in a mentalist act. Not content to work for Zeena and her rum bum husband, Stan’s got plans of learning Zeena’s secret code and...

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Reptilicus

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:58:36 PDT

Japan didn’t corner the market on giant monster movies. This Danish entry into the genre stars a missing link, the titular Reptilicus. Looking like a sickly sea serpent, the creature’s tail was...

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Battle Beyond the Stars

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:17:31 PDT

This guilty pleasure is a Roger Corman production that features a diverse group of talent, including director Jimmy T. Murakami and screenwriter John Sayles. One of the better films in the vast wake...

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Rififi

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:13:16 PDT

Based loosely on a dense, argot-strewn novel by Auguste Le Breton, Rififi was co-adapted by director Jules Dassin while on the Hollywood blacklist in the US. Having blazed trails with film Noir...

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High Plains Drifter

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:18:34 PDT

You can look all over the world and not find a bigger badass than Clint Eastwood, and in High Plains Drifter, he plays one of the toughest antihero hombres to ever squint at the screen.

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A Boy and His Dog

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:15:20 PDT

Accompanying a candy-colored montage of mushroom clouds is the ironic legend that “Politicians had finally solved the problem of urban blight.” This sets the tone for the wry post-apocalyptic tale of...

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Skidoo

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:42:04 PDT

Jackie Gleason stars as Tony Banks, a retired torpedo who’s tapped by God (Groucho Marx), the head of La Cosa Nostra, to bump off George “Blue Chips” Packard (Mickey Rooney) before he turns state’s...

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The Heroic Trio

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:14:41 PDT

Gathering three of the hottest Hong Kong starlets (in looks and box office draw), The Heroic Trio is a superhero fantasy cum supernatural adventure. Anita Mui stars as Wonder Woman, a modern day...

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Damnation Alley

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:15:11 PDT

Straight arrow Air Force Major Sam Denton and loose cannon Lieutenant Jake Tanner push the proverbial “button” that launches a counterstrike against the Soviet Union in the opening sortie of World...

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Johnny Mnemonic

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:49:04 PDT

In what other film will you see a pioneer of punk, the original gangsta, an avant-garde Japanese director, a Finnish scholar, and a teen heartthrob all act side by side with a dolphin? None other...

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Myra Breckinridge

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:19:50 PDT

Far worse than any disaster dreamed up by Irwin Allen, the end of the 1960s saw cinema often misguidedly attempting to embrace popular culture. Along with the LSD-laced bomb and the free love fest...

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Rio Bravo

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:12:43 PDT

A seminal Western, Rio Bravo is a terrific treatise on male friendship, loyalty, and pride. John Wayne stars as Sheriff John T. Chance, a former gunfighter who’s settled down in what’s normally a...

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Darktown Strutters

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:11:47 PDT

Written by George Armitage, Darktown Strutters is steeped in Blaxploitation tropes. Syreena, leader of the all-girl Darktown Strutters motorcycle gang, travels through a 1970s California landscape...

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Cyborg 2087

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:03:32 PDT

Out of a suppressive future ruled by robotic sentinels comes a man determined to change the past. It’s not easy — Killer cyborgs are in pursuit. But while on the run he meets a woman who believes in...

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Night of the Lepus

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:06:04 PDT

In the 1970s, America was under attack. Hordes of spiders, ants, rats, snakes, alligators, piranhas, and other nasty creepy crawlies nipped at the heels of the average citizen at every turn. But none...

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Z.P.G.

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:01:24 PDT

Set in a dystopian future, Z.P.G. (”Zero Population Growth”) tells the Malthusian tale of a world where the planet’s natural resources have been consumed to such a critical level that the “World...

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Mermaids of Tiburon

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:08:19 PDT

In Mermaids of Tiburon, the freshman film of underwater cinematographer John Lamb, diver Samuel Jamison meets with Ernst Steinhauer about some rare luminescent pearls that are to be found off the...

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Miracle Mile

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:19:53 PST

Named one of the ten best un-produced screenplays by American Film in 1983, it would take another five years for writer/director Steve De Jarnatt’s Miracle Mile to finally come to fruition. The film...

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Zardoz

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:01:46 PST

Have you ever wanted to see Sean Connery wearing a diaper? Look no further than Zardoz, John Boorman’s self-indulgent treatise on classism. Set in 2293, Connery plays Zed, one of the Exterminators —...

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The Hidden

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:13:56 PST

There’s an alien in our midst, and it loves sex, violence, fast cars, and rock-n-roll. It’s creeping from one character actor to another turning law-abiding citizens into creeps. Luckily, hot-handed...

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Pickup on South Street

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:09:21 PST

Richard Widmark, aka the King of Film Noir (Kiss of Death, Night and the City, Panic in the Streets), stars as Skip McCoy in Sam Fuller’s thriller Pickup on South Street. Skip is as shifty as smoke....

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The Killer

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:13:17 PST

Director John Woo’s early career wasn’t that special. A workman, not a craftsman, he turned out chop sockey flicks, broad comedies, and lighthearted dramas while toiling away for Hong Kong’s Golden...

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The Warriors

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:35:49 PST

Can you count, suckers? If you can, then you’ll know that Cyrus (Roger Hill), leader of the Gramercy Riffs, has his head on straight when he gathers nine delegates from a hundred gangs from all...

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Runaway

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:06:41 PST

Having trouble with your robot? You’d better call the cops. Sergeant Jack Ramsay (Tom Selleck) will undoubtedly come to your rescue. More of a glorified IT department than police, Ramsay and his team...

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Escape from New York

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:22:35 PST

If the image of the Statue of Liberty’s head in a New York street in Cloverfield seems familiar, it’s because this was used prior for the poster of Escape from New York. In the film’s alternate...

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Barbarella

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:01:49 PST

In this adaptation of the hipster French comic by Jean-Claude Forest, Jane Fonda dazzles audiences with rainbow colors, wears some truly revealing outfits (when wearing anything at all) and is...

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Outland

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:16:24 PST

When Marshall William T. O’Niel (Sean Connery) begins his tour of duty at the Io titanium mine he discovers that his most important role is to keep the peace while keeping his mouth shut and his eyes...

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For The Bible Tells Me So

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:44:21 PST

What do you do when your heart tells you one thing but your dogma tells you another? That’s the main question at the heart of For the Bible Tells Me So, an examination of the rift between religious...

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Satan's Cheerleaders

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:09:08 PST

It’s The Pom Pom Girls meets Race with the Devil when a quartet of promiscuous high schoolers cross their school’s janitor. He has his janitorial services union card and he’s also a member of the...

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Capricorn One

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:15:13 PST

“I’m always unwrapping things,” says Elliot Gould. He may be talking about hotel soap packages, but as investigative journalist Robert Caulfield, Gould also unwraps the biggest cover-up since the...

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The Satan Bug

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:37:27 PST

The Satan Bug mixes equal parts of John Frankenheimer’s Black Sunday and Michael Bay’s The Rock. The film begins with a break-in at Station Three, the most important germ warfare research facility in...

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Brainsmasher... A Love Story

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:20:27 PST

Perhaps with only the exceptions of Uwe Boll and Michael Bay, Albert Pyun may be one of the most reviled directors in the history of cinema. Having helmed such classic fare as Captain America, Alien...

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Logan's Run

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:02:00 PST

If you ever find yourself living in a domed city, you might as well start planning to break out. Because if movies have taught us anything, it’s that the world outside the dome will always be a lot...

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Diary of the Dead

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:56:23 PST

It’s a good thing that George Romero does that John Carpenter thing of putting his name before the title of his films. In the case of Diary of the Dead, it may be necessary as the title doesn’t show...

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Cleopatra Jones

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:56:23 PST

As Cleopatra Jones, model-turned-actress Tamara Dobson is a cool drink of water. Standing over six feet tall — that’s before the heels — Cleopatra Jones grew up in the hood and made good. Now she’s...

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Student Bodies

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:02:40 PST

Lest you think we’re suffering through the heyday of moronic spoof films (Date Movie, Epic Movie, Scary Movie, Meet the Spartans), consider the early 1980s and the glut of fatuous flicks such as...

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The Day of the Triffids

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:09:24 PST

Captain Bill Masen (Howard Keel) just can’t win. His eyes are bandaged up the night of the most spectacular meteor shower the world has ever seen, and the next day, he finds that he’s the only man in...

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Wild in the Streets

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:01:27 PST

“We got the old tigers scared, baby!” screams Max Frost (nee Max Flatow), the charismatic lead singer of the Troopers. Like John Lennon, Frost (Christopher Jones) is “more famous than Jesus.”

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The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:38:14 PST

Adapted by author Laird Koenig from his novel, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane feels very much like a play. Nearly all of the action takes place at the house of Rynn Jacobs (Jodie Foster),...

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Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:14:54 PST

Peter Fonda didn’t abandon his wheels after being blown away as a biker in Easy Rider. Instead, he tried his luck at souped-up cars and even a Winnebago (Race with the Devil). Asphalt was in his...

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Orgy of the Dead

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:14:54 PST

“It’s said on clear nights, beneath the cold light of the moon, how the dog and the wolf. And creeping things crawl out of the slime. It is then that the ghouls feast in all their radiance,” intones...

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WR: Mysteries of the Organism

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

The films of Dušan Makavejev are rife with dichotomies. Narrative styles, genres, languages, images — these traits come in pairs that contrast and comment upon one another. His first film shot...

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Fantastic Planet

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

Imported from their native Terra, the Ohms are a fun plaything for the Traags. They can be trained to perform a variety of tricks, such as balancing on balls, singing, and performing in gladiatorial...

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Psychomania

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

Tom Latham (Nicky Henson) has an unhealthy obsession with death. He's the leader of a motorcycle gang called "The Living Dead" who wear skull and crossbones on their helmets and nifty denim jackets....

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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

In this French musical, not a line is spoken. Everything is sung in a kind of freeform melody that climbs along the notes of the Michel Legrand score. The music and "lyrics" have an organic feel to...

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Robotrix

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

A sheik's son has been kidnapped by evil genius Ryunichi Sakamoto. To make matters worse, the bad guy's transferred his thoughts to a big bruiser of an android (Billy Chow) to prove out his theory on...

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Policewomen

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

A squealing-tires car chase? Check. Hotshot cops who sit on the corners of desks rather than chairs? Check. An overly elaborate heist? Check. We have everything to make a '70s cop thriller. Add to...

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Can Dialectics Break Bricks?

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

Re-dubbing films to humorous ends is nothing new. Woody Allen reworked the Japanese spy film Kagi No Kagi as a quest for egg salad in 1966's What's Up Tiger Lilly? for example. The re-appropriation...

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Targets

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

Based on the events of August 1, 1966 at the University of Texas in Austin, Targets loosely retells the story of Charles Whitman's shooting spree. The film stars fresh-faced Tim O'Kelly as Bobby...

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Lemonade Joe

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

This Czechoslovakian Western is awash in whiskey, wine, and song. Starring Karel Fiala as the titular hero, Lemonade Joe croons his way into the Wild West town of Stetson City, where he captures the...

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The Big Gundown

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

Released in its native Italy as La Resi Dei Conti, this Lee Van Cleef vehicle was made in the heyday of Spaghetti Westerns. Playing lawman Jonathan Corbett, the majority of Sergio Sollima's film has...

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Black Belt Jones

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

Bruce Lee is back, and this time he's Black! It's Jim Kelly starring as Black Belt Jones, the baddest brother to ever throw a karate chop. When he's not protecting Latin American ambassadors, Jones...

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Telefon

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

There are sleeper agents all around the United States. They live out normal, everyday lives, completely unaware that they've been trained to perform various suicide missions. It isn't until the phone...

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Alice, Sweet Alice

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

Originally released as Communion, this was the first relatively mainstream film from eclectic director Alfred Sole. His follow-up to the Gothic porn film Deep Sleep, Alice, Sweet Alice is also the...

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Mr. Vampire

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

What do author Bram Stoker and martial artist Sammo Hung have in common? They both defined the vampire myth; Stoker for the West and Hung for the East. In 1982, Sammo Hung wrote and starred in The...

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Mad Love

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

Adapted once before as the German silent film Orac's Hande (1924), Maurice Renard's The Hands of Orlac has been the inspiration for films as varied as Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead 2, Guy Maddin's...

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Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

The thing that amazes audiences the most upon the first viewing of Russ Meyer's opus is just how well-crafted this treatise on feminine violence really is. Shot in beautiful high-contrast black and...

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Die Laughing

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

Between his appearances in Ice Castles and The Chosen, Robbie Benson showed audiences his lighter side in the screwball Die Laughing. Jeff Werner's film is an awkward blend of "man on the run"...

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Baxter

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

Based on the novel by Ken Greenhall, Baxter plays like a pitch-black Benji movie had the mongrel been a bull terrier sociopath. The majority of Jerome Bouvine's film is told from Baxter's point of...

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The Osterman Weekend

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

Adapted from the novel by Robert Ludlum (The Bourne Identity), this swan song for Sam Peckinpah befell studio tampering after the film tested poorly for Twentieth Century Fox. Producers Peter S....

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Tribulation 99

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

Baldwin's 1992 film as being the ultimate conspiracy movie. Created out of miles of found footage with origins as disparate as Mexican Lucha Libre films, newsreels, Japanese schlock science fiction,...

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Snake Eyes

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

Ricky Santoro (Nicholas Cage) is a corrupt Atlantic City cop. There's an envelope waiting for him in the back of his squad car every week, and both a wife and a girlfriend are always on the phone to...

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Murder My Sweet

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

Based on Raymond Chandler's second Philip Marlowe novel, Farewell, My Lovely, Edward Dmytryk's Murder, My Sweet is a classic in the film noir pantheon

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El Topo

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

If not the granddaddy of cult films, El Topo is at least the progenitor of Midnight Movies, that strain of micro-genre or weirdo niche art films best enjoyed at the witching hour. El Topo is the...

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Creation of the Humanoids

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

Two decades before Ridley Scott brought Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep to the big screen as Blade Runner, the same exploration of what it means to be human took place (albeit...

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Death Game

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

Every man's fantasy becomes one man's nightmare in this twisted tale of a man home alone that's paid a visit by a pair of nubile, nutty hippie girls. That's the lurid tagline for Death Game, and it...

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Five Deadly Venoms

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

But besides plot, what Cheh Chang’s film has in spades is a tremendous amount of style. “Poison clan rocks the world,” the phrase the sixth student uses to show brotherhood with Lizard, has been...

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Crime Wave

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

An unfortunate victim of Sam Raimi's Crimewave (released the same year) and being Canadian, John Paizs's Crime Wave had "The Big" tacked on to the title before being dumped onto VHS and slipping into...

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The Killers

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

Loosely based on an Ernest Hemmingway short story, The Killers is star-studded, in color, and hard-boiled like a crime film should be. Tough guys Charlie (Lee Marvin) and Lee (Clu Gulager) bump off...

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The Mack

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:00:01 PST

After a five year stint in the slammer, Goldie (Max Julien) gets himself together. How? To paraphrase the dynamic theme song by Willie Hutch, Goldie's got a master plan. He lives out the sage advice...

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