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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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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I’ve been collecting offbeat movie star autobiographies for years, but I’ll never forget the day I finally got my hands the “Holy Grail” of these type of books- I Am Not Ashamed, the ramshackle personal account of Barbara Payton, a…
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Is there be anything worse than summer? Maybe life in prison. Or reliving one’s childhood. Or any movie starring Dustin Hoffman. It’s too goddamn hot. Everyone is slim and tan and wearing pastels that hurt the eye. About the only…
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A treasure-trove of trash and goodies this month on Blu-ray like the fabulously insane Boom!, The Alligator People and Can’t Stop The Music, to stunning film-noirs like This Gun For Hire and The Big Clock, the sensational Permanent Green Light,…
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Leave it to director Mary Harron to make a feminist film about Charles Manson and his scruffy desert group of followers and the grisly murders they committed that was the death knell for the 1960s hippie-movement. Harron unfolds the story…
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On Mother’s Day, online sites delight in posting lists of the worst movie mothers…they’re usually all the same suspects- Mommie Dearest, Carrie, Precious, Friday The 13th, Throw Momma From the Train, Psycho, etc. But mothers can be even more complicated…
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Was it Groucho Marx who said: “I never go to movies where the hero’s tits are bigger than the heroine’s?” Well I, sure as hell, do. But I grew up during the height of the Italian “sword and…
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Good Lord, every time you turn on the TV there’s an award show. The Oscars, The Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild, MTV Movie Awards, the list goes on and on. Hollywood loves to congratulate itself. My favorite is the People’s…
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You know how a certain song can suddenly trigger a flood of feelings flashing you back to that certain special someone or moment? How just a few chords can transport you back in time and space with alarming vividness? Certain…
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