While most have us have been glued to their screens for the last year, one has to admit it’s a golden period for TV shows. When I think over the million hours I have spent watching TV, there are plenty…
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Even I was dumbstruck by the outrageous, hilarious and transgressive Pieles (Skins), a 2017 Spanish film directed by Eduardo Casanova, now streaming on Netflix. It’s a wildly stylized collection of interconnecting tales about individuals unwholesomely, and sexually, attracted to people…
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It all started with a Perry Mason TV episode. Doesn’t it always? I find I can only go to bed after midnight when I watch a MeTV Perry Mason show. I need that psychic joypop of watching someone breaking down…
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Talk about some bloody Blu-ray valentines- this month’s crackpot collection includes Tennessee Williams’ twisted, dark comedy Baby Doll; the heart-ripping Canadian slasher My Bloody Valentine; not to mention a terrific, paranoid thriller- The Parallax View; some guilty-pleasure color musicals from…
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If you have HBO you need to be watching the truly unhinged, supernatural epic- 30 Coins by the Spanish master of the bizarre Alex de la Iglesias. The same director who showed is Carmen Maura walking on the ceiling as…
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