I’ve been shocked lately when I ask friends what they’ve been watching in their social-distancing caves. Quite a few cheerily admit, “Contagion,” or, worse yet, “Outbreak.” To me that’s like being in a house on fire and instead of rushing…
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The irony is not lost on me. I’ve been under “house arrest” with a fractured ankle for over 5 months, and the minute I can get out the door the whole city shuts down and I have to scurry back…
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It is with a heavy heart I report the passing of 83-year-old Brazilian underground filmmaker and horror legend- Jose Mojica Marins, aka “Coffin Joe.” Usually dressed in a top hat and black cape with outrageously long fingernails, he made a series…
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As Valentine’s Day approaches a million lists of the “most romantic films” appear online. Don’t be conned. An Affair To Remember stinks. And many medical professionals agree that love is a psychological disorder anyway. Why do you think it’s called…
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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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