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Film Fun: Music from Movies – The Green Slime (USA/Japan, 1968)
One of those films that more people have heard of than seen, this MGM production was directed in Japan by Kinji Fukasaku (3 July 1930 – 12 January 2003), a productive and for the most part respected...
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Cooties (USA, 2014)
(Spoilers.) Kill-the-kids time… laughing all the way. Perfect for the Coronavirus season, an independent "zomcom" about a pandemic of cooties that turns kids into (intelligent), adult-eating killers....
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Short Film: Tom & Jerry in Magic Mummy (USA, 1933)
Let's hear it for Tom & Jerry!Obviously enough, we're not talking about everyone's favorite cat & mouse couple, the S&M friendenemies created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera that...
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Scared to Death (USA, 1947)
"She was a very beautiful girl. One hates to perform an autopsy on a beautiful girl."Autopsy Surgeon (Stanley Andrews)(Spoilers) Filmed as Accent on Horror. Five years prior to being reduced to such...
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Short Film: Elvira's Very Scary X-Mas (USA, 2010)
Okay, so this month's short is an advertisement. It's not like Christmas isn't a purely capitalist exercise nowadays, an event oriented alone towards emptying your pockets and making you think you're...
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His House (Brexitland, 2020)
"Your ghosts follow you. They never leave. They live with you. It's when I let them in, I could start to face myself."Bol (Sope Dirisu) In February of 2020, after seven years of civil war and unrest...
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Marilyn Joi, Part V: 1981-2019
Let's hear it for Marilyn Joi. Between 1972 and 1989, this Babe of Yesteryear made indelible as well as blink-and-you-miss-her appearances in a variety of fondly remembered, unjustly forgotten, or...
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31 Dec 2020
It can only get better from here... Film-related fun, appropriate to the past year:The blogspot European Film Star Postcards looks atVictims of the Spanish Flu
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"Best of" 2020
Buy your Golden Dick here.Give one to a Rightwing Retard, Karen, or Frightened Angry White Man of your choice.Here at a wasted life, we hear the sound of victory: it is time for our annual roundup of...
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Shadow of Fear (USA, 2004)
(Sorta spoilers – but who cares?) We wasted our time so you don't have to. Shadow of Fear is oneof those kind of movies that we're happy get made because they help underused and underappreciated or...
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Film Fun: Music from Movies – The Black Klansman (USA, 1966)
"Get control of myself?! Who the hell are you, white woman, to tell me to get control of myself?!"Jerry Ellsworth (Richard Gilden) Let's take a meandering, diffuse look at the title track to a movie...
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Short Fim: The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water (UK, 1973)
A.k.a. Lonely Water. This two-minute chiller is actually public information cum safety warning broadcast on TV in Great Britain. (PIF in British English, PSA in American English.) "It was commissioned...
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Time Trap (USA, 2017)
It is perhaps close to impossible to make a movie set in a cave featuring a group of non-adults that doesn't end up having, at least for a few seconds here and there, an almost Goonies (1985 /...
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The title says it all. Enjoy! "Shimajiro: Toilet Training is a three-part episode from a cartoon in a correspondence education materials aimed at teaching preschoolers about various social manners,...
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Escape Room (USA, 2019)
Not to be confused with the somewhat similarly plotted, yuppie-heavy Escape Room from 2017 (trailer), which isn't as much fun as this more inclusive tale.(Spoilers) One would think that the main lesson...
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Harry Reems, Part VIII: Addendum I (1969-71)
Way back in March 2013, when the studly and hirsute Golden Age porn star Harry Reems(27 Aug 1947 – 19 Mar 2013) died, we began our long, fat look at his toolcareer and films: a full 8 lengthy blog...
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Jessabelle (USA, 2014)
(Spoilers.) Entitled Jessabelle instead of Jezebel so as not to be confused with the 1938 drama starring Bette Davis (trailer), the film for which Ms. Davis won her second Best Actress Oscar. Not! (The...
View ArticleShort "Film": The Sleep Fairy (Germany, 2019)
"Success has many fathers. But particularly in highly disruptive markets, communication plays a central role in determining whether the brand succeeds or not. So seize the opportunity, analyse the...
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Bad Faith / Ond tro (Sweden, 2010)
(Spoilers.) A cold, glacially paced and alienating movie that is more interested in conveying a mood of isolation and all-encompassing inability to communicate than presenting a functional, solid...
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