A lot about the holidays has to do with food. From turkey, to stuffing, to mashed potatoes, to cranberries, yams, to pumpkin-filled pies. And a wheelbarrow full of antacids. But there’s something fun when movies convey the pleasurable joys…
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Models are many things. They’re young, beautiful, thin, glamorous, mysterious. Some say they are capable of secret powers. Like X-ray vision. Or the ability to fly. But actresses, in many cases, they’re not. Director Rouben Mamoulian, filming the famous close-up…
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Mixing comedy with horror is a tricky venture but when it works like Re-Animator, Shaun Of The Dead, or Peter Jackson’s fabulous gory/funny Dead Alive you crave to see more. Here are 10 more that really deliver- they’re witty without forgetting…
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Thank God for Blu-ray/DVD company Mondo Macabro, continuously unearthing crackpot films from around the world. Well, they’ve come up with a lulu this time- on October 22 they are releasing a Blu-ray of a rare 1975 Spanish film- The…
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The new promos for Ryan Murphy’s upcoming season of American Horror Story hints that it might be an homage to 80s slasher films. My heart leapt at this. True, most of today’s more successful modern horror movies like…
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There have been great documentaries about the fashion world. From The First Monday In May, Dior And I, The September Issue, McQueen, Valentino: The Last Emperor to my favorite Unzipped. But I love it, when, in a fiction film,…
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I just finished a fascinating book on one of my favorite character actors- A Hollywood Tragedy- Laird Cregar by Gregory William Mank (McFarland). It’s one of those books that I knew was in the works and I wondered how…
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They post photos of missing kids on milk cartons. But what do they do about movies that you can never find? Movies that haven’t shown up on video, DVD or streaming (unless you count bootlegged blurry copies with Rumanian…
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(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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