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Death Rides a Horse (Italy, 1967)
The Italian title, Da uomo a uomo, more or less translates into From Man to Man, but the English distributors decided to change the title to Death Rides a Horse. (So does conquest, war and famine,...
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R.I.P.: Bert I. Gordon (24 Sep 1922 – 8 Mar 2023)
After 100 years, he's gone! Trashmaster Bert I. Gordon, "Mister B.I.G.", a seminal influence on the filmic taste of a wasted life, has entered the Film Palace in the Sky. He will be missed... Born in...
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B.o.Y.: The Women of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Part IX – "Gina Dair"
"Using unknowns you avoid highly exaggerated salaries and prima donnas."Russ Meyer To more or less repeat what we have written in all previous entries of out multi-part Babe of Yesteryear review of the...
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Forbidden World (USA, 1982)
"Welcome to the Garden of Eden. We play God here."Dr. Cal Timbergen (Fox Harris)(Spoilers — as if it matters.) New World Pictures, how we miss them. Founded by Roger Corman and his underappreciated...
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Short Film: Steamlyannaya Hamonika ("Russia, 1968" [as in: Canada, 2023])
Once again, a wasted life finds itself in meme territory (and, once again, thanks to boingboing). While we always enjoy The Simpsons when we catch an episode, and definitely laughed multiple years ago...
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They Reach (USA, 2020)
It is pretty easy to see that were it not for the mega-success of that dull, predictable TV series Stranger Things, this interesting but massively flawed horror movie, an independent production,...
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B.o.Y.: The Women of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Part X – Cissy Colpitts,...
Fifty-two years and 10 months ago, on 17 June 1970, Russ Meyer's baroque masterpiece Beyond the Valley of the Dolls hit the screens in the US of Anal. One of only two movies Meyer ever made for a major...
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Ants! (USA, 1977)
Originally made as an ABC television movie titled It Happened at Lakewood Manor, Ants! received its new moniker upon re-release during the video age. Our DVD ended up in our hands as part of a cheap,...
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R.I.P. Bert I. Gordon, Pt. II (1960-70)
Bert I. Gordon24 September 1922 – 8 March 2023 After 100 years, he's gone! Trashmaster Bert Ira Gordon, "Mister B.I.G.", a seminal influence on the filmic taste of a wasted life, has entered the Film...
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Short Film: Steklyannaya Garmonika (USSR, 1968)
Last month, we took a look at a then-current meme, Steamlyannaya Hamonika, which was brought to our attention by BoingBoing.* As we pointed out in April when covering the who, what, why, when and how...
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Mute Witness (USA, 1995)
Mute Witness, an international production with an international cast of mostly unknowns, is perhaps one of the best-made, low-budget, semi-exploitation Hitchcock films that the famed master director...
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B.o.Y.: The Women of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Part Xl – Cissy...
Fifty-two years and 11 months ago, on 17 June 1970, Russ Meyer's baroque masterpiece Beyond the Valley of the Dolls hit the screens in the US of Anal. One of only two movies Meyer ever made for a major...
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Baba's Cars / Babas bilar (Sweden, 2006)
An obscure and amusing but hardly imperative Scandinavian crime comedy that offers a decent one-and-one-half hours of smiles and laughs. Think low-level Guy Ritchie with the pacing of Fargo (1996 /...
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Short Film: Black XXX-Mas (Belgium, 1999)
"There are no good and bad guys... There's just bad guys and guys that are even worse."Little Red (Rochelle Gadd) Here's a violently surreal and blackly humorous Christmas oddity from Belgium, an...
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Short Film: Fireworks (USA, 1947)
This here was our cat, Trotsky, named Trotsky because when we got him, our other cat was named Frida [Kahlo] and, since he definitely didn't look like a Diego [Rivera], he got christened after the only...
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B.o.Y.: The Women of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Part X – Cissy Colpitts,...
Fifty-two years and 10 months ago, on 17 June 1970, Russ Meyer's baroque masterpiece Beyond the Valley of the Dolls hit the screens in the US of Anal. One of only two movies Meyer ever made for a major...
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Underworld (Great Britain, 1985)
Long before there was everyone's favorite hot-vampire-chick-vs.-the-world franchise that began in 2003 with Underworld (trailer), and more than a good half a century after Josef von Steinberg's silent...
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R.I.P.: Susan Tyrrell, Part II (1983-2012)
Susan Tyrrell 18 March 1945 – 16 June 2012"Susie was just a great, great chick and a total hell raiser. She had a huge personality and the talent to back it up."Iggy PopNOTE: On 7 May 2023, someone...
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One Body Too Many (USA, 1944)
Arguably one of Bela Lugosi's more obscure films, One Body Too Many is also not really a Bela Lugosi (20 Oct 1882 – 16 Aug 1956) vehicle: he plays a rather tertiary role as the Merkel the butler, whose...
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Short Film: Oh' Phelia – A Cartoon Burlesque (UK, 1919)
Ophelia (1851–52) by Sir John Everett Millais (Tate Britain, London) Oh, woe is the fate of Ophelia, the betrothed of Hamlet, driven to suicide by the insanity around her — her lover, who rejects her,...
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