I have to admit I’ve been weary of Netflix for a while- strolling their menu in vain for anything to watch. There’s always a glut of choices but nothing that speaks to me, that’s for sure. And then, like magic,…
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I was recently turned on to a Youtube video of the 1963 TV version of The Legend of Lylah Clare starring Tuesday Weld. I admit being obsessed with Robert Aldrich’s 1968 sardonic, poisonous-valentine-to-Hollywood version starring Kim Novak, but hadn’t heard…
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Netflix’s sleeper hit Sweet Tooth, is a post-apocalyptic fable about a young orphaned hybrid boy with antlers and his perilous journey with the “Big Man” across a country decimated by a mystery virus which resulted in “The Great Crumble.” Based…
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If ever there was a reason to subscribe to Apple TV+ it’s to see the spellbinding mini-series Lisey’s Story, based on a novel by Stephen King and starring a luminous Julianne Moore in the lead as the widow of a…
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For those who can’t wait to have their brains scrambled by a transgressive, fucked-up new film, if you have Netflix you’re in luck. There’s a new feature, and a mini-series, by a true cult legend- Sion Sono, who has directed…
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Even I was dumbstruck by the outrageous, hilarious and transgressive Pieles (Skins), a 2017 Spanish film directed by Eduardo Casanova, now streaming on Netflix. It’s a wildly stylized collection of interconnecting tales about individuals unwholesomely, and sexually, attracted to people…
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If you have HBO you need to be watching the truly unhinged, supernatural epic- 30 Coins by the Spanish master of the bizarre Alex de la Iglesias. The same director who showed is Carmen Maura walking on the ceiling as…
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For me the best thing about the new year is that I finally get to watch the final season of one of the truly great TV series- Spiral, streaming on MHz Choice. When people talk about some of the best…
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It does pain me to see Halloween irrevocably neutered by the pandemic. But that doesn’t mean we should give up scary movies. If anything, horror films have a way of being cathartic during trying times. Talk about getting you out…
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Alright, I admit it. I do miss theater. There is something about the experience you can have in a theater that is like nothing else. I still remember reeling out of theaters still shaking from what I just saw. Seeing…
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