(I was so upset to hear that the great Hong Kong actor Simon Yam was stabbed on stage in China by some paranoid schizophrenic that I decided to resurrect an article I wrote about Category III films- which Simon…
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Bad girl films have always inspired me. And in exploitation movies there’s nothing more fun than girl gang films. There, the filmmakers could push all the sex, violence and hard-boiled dialogue and disguise it as feminism while actually titillating drive-in…
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Quite frankly. It seemed like an odd career move. Stephen Geoffreys, the spiky-haired young actor who was so memorable in films like Heaven Help Us and Fright Night began performing in X-rated Gay porn films in the late 1990s…
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Out now in a gorgeously restored Blu-ray from Rarovideo is the unforgettable 1978 Fernando Di Leo film To Be Twenty (Avere Vent’Anni). What can one say about this notorious and little-seen Italian exploitation movie of the 70s without ruining its…
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Bohemian Rhapsody was such a behemoth at the box office, it’s hardly surprising studios would greenlight another movie about a gay rocker- this summer it’s Elton John in Rocketman– hoping for another megahit. And I hear a Boy George…
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I remember hitchhiking to Connecticut to visit my father in the hospital. My mother had called to tell me that he was riddled with cancer. When I walked into his hospital room he looked up and sardonically said, “Well…
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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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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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