Monthly Archive: June 2019
Dennis Dermody
June 28, 2019
Cult
Bad girl films have always inspired me. And in exploitation movies there’s nothing more fun than girl gang films. There, the filmmakers could push all the sex, violence and hard-boiled dialogue and disguise it as feminism while actually titillating drive-in…
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Dennis Dermody
June 25, 2019
Cult
Quite frankly. It seemed like an odd career move. Stephen Geoffreys, the spiky-haired young actor who was so memorable in films like Heaven Help Us and Fright Night began performing in X-rated Gay porn films in the late 1990s…
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Dennis Dermody
June 21, 2019
Cult
Out now in a gorgeously restored Blu-ray from Rarovideo is the unforgettable 1978 Fernando Di Leo film To Be Twenty (Avere Vent’Anni). What can one say about this notorious and little-seen Italian exploitation movie of the 70s without ruining its…
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Dennis Dermody
June 18, 2019
Cult
Bohemian Rhapsody was such a behemoth at the box office, it’s hardly surprising studios would greenlight another movie about a gay rocker- this summer it’s Elton John in Rocketman– hoping for another megahit. And I hear a Boy George…
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Dennis Dermody
June 14, 2019
Cult
I remember hitchhiking to Connecticut to visit my father in the hospital. My mother had called to tell me that he was riddled with cancer. When I walked into his hospital room he looked up and sardonically said, “Well…
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Dennis Dermody
June 10, 2019
Blu-Rays
Another incredible month of dazzlingly demented Blu-rays. From the long-awaited Blu-rays of Lost Highway and Hedwig And The Angry Inch. To Gaspar Noe’s disturbing Climax. Also fiendishly fun sci-fi classics and Universal horrors starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff…
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Dennis Dermody
June 3, 2019
Cult
I used to make fun of people who collected Hummel figurines or limited edition coins from the Franklin Mint, but the other day while I was walking around my apartment it struck me that so many of my prize possessions-…
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