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R.I.P. Dick Miller, Part IV: 1974-76
25 Dec 1928 – 30 Jan 2019The American thespian treasure known as Dick Miller, one of our all-time favorite character actors, entered the Great Nothingness on January 30th, 2019.A Bronx-born Christmas...
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Short Film: Cargo (Australia, 2013)
As most of the world seems to have Netfux by now, you have probably already heard of the 2017 feature-length Netfux production entitled Cargo (trailer), a well-made zombie flick starring Martin Freeman...
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The Snake King (2005, USA)
Aka Snakeman, this SyFy (nee, SciFi) Channel TV movie got released in Europe as a direct-to-DVD "movie", and somewhere, somehow, a copy of that DVD release appeared in our to-watch pile. And watch it...
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R.I.P.: Dick Miller, Part V (1977-80)
25 Dec 1928 – 30 Jan 2019The American thespian treasure known as Dick Miller, one of our all-time favorite character actors, entered the Great Nothingness on January 30th, 2019.A Bronx-born Christmas...
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Short Film: Under Covers (2018)
Long, long ago, there used to be something called zines. They were physically real, printed on paper and were meant to be read. You could hold them, and keep them. They were hard to discover,...
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The Bagman (USA, 2002)
Long-time readers of a wasted life— Are there any aside from you, Mom? Oh, wait: you're dead, so there probably aren't any... — might possibly, doubtfully, remember an amazing flick that truly stunned...
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Babes of Yesteryear: Uschi Digard, Part VII: 1973-74
Babes of Yesteryear: a wasted life's irregular and PI feature that takes a look at the filmographies of the underappreciated actresses cum sex bombs of low-culture cinema of the past. Some may still be...
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Short Film: Carrot Crazy (Florida, 2011)
Men. In an odd way, this short little animated thesis film does well at reflecting what would happen if the capitalistic cosmetic surgery sphere were to invent a feasible and effective penis...
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Bullet Head (USA/Bulgaria, 2017)
Long ago, in the day of the grindhouse, Bullet Head would probably have been one of those surprising little flicks that stand out amidst all the trash of the triple-feature of often unknown titles....
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Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis (USA, 2005)
"Send more security guards!Long ago, some dude directed a cheap little B&W independent movie entitled Night of the Living Dead (1968), which eventually (1999, to be exact) was deemed "culturally,...
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R.I.P.: Dick Miller, Part VI (1981-84)
25 Dec 1928 – 30 Jan 2019The American thespian treasure known as Dick Miller, one of our all-time favorite character actors, entered the Great Nothingness on January 30th, 2019.A Bronx-born Christmas...
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Short Film: The Passenger (Australia, 2000-2006)
Here's an award-winning little film from down under, a labor of love by Chris Jones, who took roughly six years to complete it. To simply quote what he himself writes at his website, "Chris Jones has...
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The Most Assassinated Woman in the World (Belgium, 2018)
Dunno, grammar fascists like us might indivertibly think that whoever translated the original title (La femme la plus assassinée du monde) was a bit too literal, as the French verb "assassiner" is not...
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I Am the Pretty Thing that Lives in the House (USA/Canada, 2016)
If French-language horror movie, The Most Assassinated Woman in the World (2018) is a prime example of deliberately paced aesthetic horror, then this literary-minded flick directed by Oz Perkins is a...
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R.I.P.: Dick Miller, Part VII (1985-89)
25 Dec 1928 – 30 Jan 2019 The American thespian treasure known as Dick Miller, one of our all-time favorite character actors, entered the Great Nothingness on January 30th, 2019. A Bronx-born Christmas...
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Short Film: Woman's Best Friend (1975)
While putting together the blog entry Babes of Yesteryear: Uschi Digard, Part VII: 1973-74, we stumbled upon the name David Grant, aka Terry Gould. It was under that latter name that he directed a...
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The Purge (Un-USA, 2013)
(Spoilers.) A rare movie which, at least when it was originally released, had its cake and ate it, too — but the subsequent evolution into a franchise has pretty much negated, in retrospect, the...
View ArticleShort Film: Oh, Christmas Tree
Another year has gone by and once again t'is the season to be jolly and celebrate uncontrolled, pointless consumerism with people who get on your nerves around a dying or plastic tree decorated with...
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Krampus (USA, 2015)
A fun Christmas film for the whole family. Opening with a slow-mo shopping scene that humorously reflects the true capitalist nature of the holiday, the black humor infusing much of the first third of...
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R.I.P.: Dick Miller, Part VIII (1990-93)
25 Dec 1928 – 30 Jan 2019The American thespian treasure known as Dick Miller, one of our all-time favorite character actors, entered the Great Nothingness on January 30th, 2019. A Bronx-born Christmas...
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