I’ll Be Seeing You
A few weeks back I underwent an operation to save my right eye. I had just gone in for a check-up to see if I needed a new prescription and (thankfully) an astute technician sent me immediately to a retina…
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Author Archive: Dennis Dermody
15 Favorite Bad Girl Movies
Why is it that some of the key movies I frequently rewatch involve girls with bad attitudes, criminal tendencies and questionable morals? Is there anything sweeter than sitting with a group of drunken friends howling through Switchblade Sisters or Shanty…
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Best & Worst Films Of 2018
To be honest, it sucked in theaters this year. Sure there were some terrific movies, but they were dwarfed by Marvel super heroes or Jurassic sequels or more Impossible Missions. Not that I don’t need a fix of that once…
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How Far Would You Go To See A Movie?
When you’re a teenager, you lie to your parents. About sneaking off to a party. Getting drunk with friends. Hooking up with a girlfriend/boyfriend/teacher. What I did was much more mortifying. I would tell my parents I was going over…
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Batshit Blu-rays Of The Month- 14 for December
Befuddled about what to stuff in those stockings hanging over the fireplace? Try any of these Blu-ray gems to add joy and fear for the holidays. Horror Of Dracula (Warner Archive) Hammer Studios’ 1958 masterpiece starring Christopher Lee as…
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Jesus’s Nanny
Let me set the scene. We’re in Morocco, way out in a remote mountainous region where they are shooting The Last Temptation Of Christ. I’m with 6-year-old Jack, the son of the star of the movie, and we’re watching his…
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The Marvelous Madame Spivy
There are character actors in movies that pop up occasionally and you’re overcome by a warm wave of recognition and delight. One unforgettable gal that used to drive me crazy was the mannish-looking Madame Spivy who appeared in such movies…
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Multitasking & Movies
We are all people on the go. Every morning on the subway I see people juggling coffee, newspapers, scrolling their iPhones- all the while careful not to make eye contact with the homeless man wandering down the aisle asking for…
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Cannibal Holocaust Thanksgiving
Is it just me, or does Thanksgiving make you think of Italian cannibal movies, too? Ah. November; bowls of stuffing and mashed potatoes, peas and carrots slathered with butter, steaming ladles of dark rich gravy, a golden-brown turkey carved on…
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Pocket Rocket Pictures
The film Outlaw King, now showing on Netflix, has received a lot of press concerning the sight of actor Chris Pine’s penis. It still amazes me that the phallus still has the power to overshadow anything else about the movie.…
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