When I first moved to Provincetown in the early 70s I only knew a few people. One of them dragged me to a nighttime party at a house on the West End of town- off the beaten track and surrounded…
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The series Paris Police 1900 on MHz Choice was one of the most exciting shows I’d seen in some time. Every episode a nail-biter, beautifully acted, with expert attention to period detail in costumes and sets. Set in the Belle…
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In a month that includes Thanksgiving I am always grateful for more crackpot Blu-ray treats. This month we have releases from the sublime to the subversive. From restorations of great films like Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist; Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last…
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This notorious trilogy is The Lord of the Rings for perverts. And part of the 60s exploitation films called “roughies,” which were black and white melodramas that reveled in sex and violence. Films like Joseph P. Mawra’s Olga’s House of…
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I cannot emphasize enough how great this disturbing 2006 thriller, based on a novel by the late/great splatterpunk author Jack Ketchum, is. Set in Sparta, New Jersey it’s about the psychotic Ray Pye (played with fiendish glee by Marc Senter)…
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