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B.o.Y.: The Women of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Part XIX — Erica Gavin,...
"Using unknowns you avoid highly exaggerated salaries and prima donnas."Russ Meyer To repeat ourselves: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Russ Meyer's baroque 1967 masterpiece, one of only two movies he...
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Slipstream (UK, 1989)
(Mild spoilers ahead.) Not to be confused with Slipstream (1973 / a Canadian talks), Slipstream(2005) or Slipstream (2007 / trailer).One must admit, this movie incorporates some pretty impressive...
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The Knight of Shadows: Between Yin and Yang (China, 2019)
Here's a pleasant little film — okay, going by its obvious budget, perhaps not all that little — that agitates a little bit outside the norm of Jackie Chan's contemporary oeuvre, an oeuvre that (going...
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B.o.Y.: The Women of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Part XX — Erica Gavin,...
"Using unknowns you avoid highly exaggerated salaries and prima donnas."Russ Meyer To repeat ourselves: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Russ Meyer's baroque 1967 masterpiece, one of only two movies he...
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The Swiss Conspiracy (Germany/USA, 1976)
Sometimes there are movies that are so terrible, you don't want to waste your time on them. We hit a film like that last night, when, enraptured by the DVD cover image of mid-1970s Raquel Welch, we...
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Dorian Gray (Great Britain, 2009)
"The only way to get rid of a temptation, is to yield to it."Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth)Trailer toDorian Gray:Obviously enough based Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, this 2009...
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Judgment Day (USA, 1998)
It only took Hollywood a little under 20 years to forget the fiasco that was the major box office flop Meteor (1979 / trailer), the film that basically killed the trash-film institution that was the...
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R.I.P.: Roger Corman
Roger Corman5 April 1926 — 9 May 2024One of the greats has left us: Roger Corman, filmmaker extraordinaire — "The Pope of Pop Cinema", "The Spiritual Godfather of the New Hollywood", and "The King of...
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Peninsula / Busanhaeng 2: Bando (South Korea, 2020)
Korean director and scriptwriter Yeon Sang-ho already had a tidy little career as the maker of adult-oriented animation films when, in 2016, he released a double whammy: first, in April, he released...
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B.o.Y.: The Women of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Part XXI – Dolly Read
"Using unknowns you avoid highly exaggerated salaries and prima donnas."Russ MeyerTo repeat ourselves yet again : Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Russ Meyer's baroque 1967 camp masterpiece, one of only...
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The Price of Death / Il venditore di morte (Italy, 1971)
An obscure and unknown oddity among spaghetti westerns in that The Price of Death a.k.a. Il venditore di morte is, in its heart, a detective film dressed up as a mildly dirty spaghetti western — and by...
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Force of Nature (USA, 2020)
(Spoilers.) Towards the end of his life, Sir Laurence Olivier (22 May 1907 – 11 Jul 1989), said to have been one of Great Britain's great thespians, was known, during his final years of life and...
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The Naked Witch (Planet Texas, 1961 / 64)
Not to be confused with The Naked Witch (1967), a.k.a. The Naked Temptress, the lost and arguable feature-film directorial debut of the infamous Staten Island filmmaker Andy Milligan (12 Feb 1929 – 3...
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Zombie Shark (USA, 2015)
A.k.a. Shark Island. Another dispensable movie for which one has no reason to waste their time on, but which, if watched, is about as easy to digest as baby food and about as satisfying — unless, of...
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Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (USA, 1942)
A far cry from the short-lived, action-packed, Victorian-set, proto-lad and (naturally) full-color franchise with Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law (as, respectively, Holmes and Dr Watson) that director...
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B.o.Y. – The Women of BVD, Part XXII: Marcia McBroom (1964-84)
"Using unknowns you avoid highly exaggerated salaries and prima donnas."Russ Meyer To repeat ourselves: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Russ Meyer's baroque 1967 masterpiece, one of only two movies he...
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One Way (USA, 2022)
Is it good? Not really. Is it terrible? Naw, definitely not. Does it entertain? Yeah, well enough. Should you see it? Well, we have watched worse... like, for example, the totally different One Way...
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The London Nobody Knows (Brexitland, 1969)
(Full move at the Internet Archives.) At slightly less than a full hour in length, The London Nobody Knows is relatively short documentary shot in March 1967 by Norman Cohen (11 June 1936 – 26 Oct...
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The First Myth: The Clash of Gods / Feng shen bang: Jue zhan wan xian zhen...
Well, that was a waste of time. A battle film, from start to finish, and one that comes with a heavy, heavy sense of déjà vu: anyone who has ever seen any of the Marvel Avengers movies will surely...
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