I just finished a wonderful biography of the legendary Vampira, a living Charles Addams cartoon come to life as a television horror host in L.A. in the 1950s; good friend of James Dean; lover of Marlon Brando and Orson Welles;…
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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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I really think I’m finally losing my marbles. Why else would I be so ecstatic about the Blu-ray release of Blue Monkey, a 1987 Canadian sci-fi/horror flick starring Steve Railsback about a giant insect stalking the halls of a hospital. …
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When people crave action movies it’s easy to head for the James Bond films or the Jason Bourne, Mission Impossible or Die Hard franchises. Or any John Woo film. But there are a few kick-ass, action-packed, cinematic excesses that I…
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So many brain-melting cult films are out on Blu-ray this month. Not to mention a great box set of films by Luis Bunuel; a restored Nick & Nora Charles mystery; an exploitation movie about a gorilla-worshiping tribe in the Congo;…
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For me the best thing about the new year is that I finally get to watch the final season of one of the truly great TV series- Spiral, streaming on MHz Choice. When people talk about some of the best…
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