Muscle Marys
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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Movie Reviews by Dennis Dermody
The Hambone Hall Of Fame
Good Lord, every time you turn on the TV there’s an award show. The Oscars, The Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild, MTV Movie Awards, the list goes on and on. Hollywood loves to congratulate itself. My favorite is the People’s…
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Precious Movie Memories
You know how a certain song can suddenly trigger a flood of feelings flashing you back to that certain special someone or moment? How just a few chords can transport you back in time and space with alarming vividness? Certain…
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Batshit Blu-rays Of The Month- 14 For April
This month’s batch of rancid rarities on Blu-ray include movies about giant insects, rare Jean Seberg, sparkling Doris Day, a scary Andy Griffith, bone-crunching Sonny Chiba, Robert Lewis Stevenson and Nathaniel Hawthorne adaptations, a wonderfully sleazy movie about a NYC…
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Sauvage/Wild at Film Forum
A raw, powerful film by Camille Vidal-Naquet about a male street sex worker in Paris is now playing at the Film Forum from April 10- 23. Felix Maritaud (who was in BPM (Beats Per Minute) gives a fearless performance as…
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Bolting: The Joyful Art Of Leaving A Movie
When I was young, I went to the movies all the time. Not just once a week. All the time. And I was a rather indiscriminate moviegoer. I’d see anything. From The Night Of the Iguana to Night Of the…
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How To Tell If Your Kid Is An Asshole
Kids are people too and can be just as annoying and stupid as adults. When they’re little, they’re beyond reproach- cute, adorable, full of expectation. But when they’re 10 and older you have a midget person on your hands, one…
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Salute To Sadism
We’ve all worked for a sadist or lived with one. One night I woke up to find my date staring at me intently in the dark. “Let me break just one finger?” he begged, “Just one. You have nine others…”…
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Yackety Yack
Do you remember all those “No Spitting” signs in the subway that threatened fines and arrest and imprisonment? I was fascinated by them as a kid. I’d ask my parents repeatedly why spitting was such a criminal act, but they…
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What The Fest!? (March 20-24)
This year’s five-day festival at the IFC Center (March 20-24th) is so damn good it makes me angry. There are just too many great sounding films this year. I read the schedule and needed to see almost every one of…
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