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Little Evil (USA, 2017)
Dunno rightly what director/scriptwriter Eli Craig is up to most of the time, but he hasn't exactly had the most active career over the last decade. (A shame, if you get down to it.) The son of the...
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Photo cut from the fake album cover for Karl Malden Reads the Speeches of Lyndon B Johnson, originally created by Twisted Vintage but found at Cut-up Sound. The faux album cover, oddly enough, came up...
View ArticleSinister (USA, 2012)
"Don't worry, Daddy. I'll make you famous again."Ashley (Clare Foley)In general, a well-shot but not very good tale about an asshole, semi-alcoholic, has-been true crime writer, Ellison Oswalt (Ethan...
View ArticleShort Film: The Secret Cinema (New York City, 1966)
Among the selection of fine blogs we have listed under list of Blogs for Wasted Lives found at the [right] side of this blog is The Dwrayger Dungeon, otherwise seen on the list as 13. Coincidentally,...
View ArticleR.I.P.: Dick Miller, Part IX (1995-2003)
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 almost a year ago to the day on 30 January...
View ArticleColossal (Canada/Spain, 2016)
Wow. Who would have thought it possible: an Anne Hathaway film that not only doesn't suck, but is amazingly non-mainstream and interesting. Too bad she doesn't make more movies like this one. As the...
View ArticleShort Film: Room Runners (USA, 1932)
For the January 2020Short Film of the Month, a wasted life took a look at a short film we saw long ago and that The Dwrayger Dungeon, one of the fine blogs we have listed to the right (as 13), reminded...
View ArticleKidnapping Stella (Germany, 2019)
Kidnapping Stella— a German remake of the British flick The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009 / trailer), a movie that few people saw and was already remade in The Netherlands in 2014 as Bloedlink /...
View ArticleR.I.P.: Dick Miller, Part X (2009-20)
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 over a year ago on 30 January 2019. A...
View ArticleCirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (USA, 2009)
OK, who greenlighted this one? Anyone with half a brain could have seen that this movie, one of many of the day based on "popular" teen-lit series and filmed in hope of establishing a hit franchise ala...
View ArticleBabes of Yesteryear – Uschi Digard, Part VIII: 1975
Babes of Yesteryear: a wasted life's irregular and P.I. 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...
View ArticlePudelmützen Rambos (Germany, 2004)
An English-language review for this "movie" is probably pointless, as Pudelmützen Ramboswill surely never be dubbed or subtitled in English (or any language), but hell: if we don't review it, surely no...
View ArticleShort Film: Darling, Get Me A Crocodile (Bulgaria?, 1960s?)
OK, here we have a truly obscure short animated film about which absolutely nothing seems to be known. We're presenting it because we find its style of animation intriguing and the events portrayed...
View ArticleKing Arthur: The Legend of the Sword (UK/USA, 2017)
Guy Ritchie, one of England's best contemporary auteur director's of entertainingly hip, pop crime cinema (see Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels [1998 / trailer], Snatch [2000 / trailer], Revolver...
View ArticleBabes of Yesteryear: Uschi Digart, Part IX: 1976
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...
View ArticleTaking Lives (USA, 2004)
A dankly stylish thriller that quickly loses all its logic along the way and then descends into total (but always explained!) implausibility by the end, at which point, if you get down to it, FBI agent...
View ArticleFaux Trailer: Don-O-Mite (USA, 2014)
We cannot claim to be fans of Mad Men (2007 to 2015), if only because we never caught an episode. We saw a trailer or two, but while they may have looked interesting, and Jon Hamm hunky, prior to the...
View ArticleShort Film: Man (UK, 2012)
We've long thought about presenting a Steve Cutts short as a Short Film of the Month, ever since, many moons ago, we first saw the great music video he did, in the style of a Max Fleischer cartoon, for...
View ArticleSinister II (USA, 2015)
Ex-Deputy So & So (James Ransone of The Valley of Violence[2016 / trailer], seen below with a friend but not from this film), perhaps the second most-likable character of the first movie — the...
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