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• Screenshot Saturday: Tadeo Garcia’s On The Downlow (2004)

  First drawn to On the Downlow for purely erotic means, many gay men hope to see two very attractive and masculine Latino men dating secretly in Chicago’s gang... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Hardly Horror Part 4 – The Zombie: Fido (2006)

  

  Of the films I’ve reviewed this month, Andrew Currie’s Fido is the best example of Hardly Horror. Despite a movie that features the dead coming back to life,... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2011 MOVIES

• Hardly Horror Part 3 – The Werewolf: The Company of Wolves (1984)

  

  Putting Neil Jordan’s The Company of Wolves on this list is kind of cheating, since there are moments in this movie that definitely count as “horror”. However,... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2011 MOVIES

• Screenshot Saturday: Herschell Gordon Lewis’ The Gore Gore Girls (1972)

  Lewis was considered the Godfather of Gore and creator of the splatter film long before the 1972 film The Gore Gore Girls, but this X-rated entry into his canno... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Hardly Horror Part 2 – The Slasher: Baghead (2008)

  

  I absolutely hated this movie the first time I watched it, but unlike most films I instantly hated, I can’t blame the director (or in this case ‘directors’, as... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Hardly Horror Part 1 – The Vampire: Ganja and Hess (1973)

  

  Ganja and Hess is a movie that sticks with me, it’s something of an obsession. I’ve watched it at least five times, and I’m constantly looking for information... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2011 MOVIES

• Hardly Horror – An Introduction: Beware, You Are in for No Scares

  

  There’s a chill in the air; the leaves on the trees are turning all shades of oranges and reds; lighted pumpkins are gracing doorways; retail executives are... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2011 MOVIES

• Screenshot Saturday: Larry Clark’s Kids (1995)

  Dealing with such issues as drug and alcohol abuse, violence, sexual promiscuity, and sexually transmitted diseases, Kids depicts a portrait of life for New Yor... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• I Would Spare Some Change for a “Hobo with a Shotgun”

  

  In an age of retro grindhouse tributes, this particular style of filmmaking can grow tiresome. After Planet Terror, Death Proof, Hell Ride, Black Dynamite and... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2011 MOVIES

• The Charge of a Flash: Saw’s Moment of Illumination

  

  Saw is a busy film.The image is frenetic and the soundtrack syncs with lots of noise, loud music and jolting cues. It aims to disturb your senses and scare you... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Screenshot Saturday: Chan-Wook Park’s Oldboy (2003)

  

  Psychologically engaging, visually stunning, and entirely intriguing are only a few adverbial-participle combinations that one can use to describe Chan-Wook... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Beggar of Pain Speaks to Him: The Lopsided Critique of Lars Von Trier’s...

  

  An inherent trap of film criticism is reductionism. We set out to prove a thesis, which always poses the risk of binding rather than revealing. Life is rarely s... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Boobs, Punk Rock and Toxic Waste: The Seven Slimiest Movies of the 1980s

  

  While John Hughes and Stephen Spielberg might corner the dime store nostalgia market for the 1980s, an unfettered look at Reagan-era America will show... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2011 MOVIES

• Screenshot Saturday: Jennifer Chambers Lynch’s Boxing Helena (1993)

  

  Simultaneously nominated for a Razzie for Worst Director and the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Best Drama, Boxing Helena is a roundly condemned portrait of... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• VIDEODROME MARATHON: Videodrome is Dangerous

  

  Videodrome is dangerous.I’m talking literally and metaphorically. The Videodrome signal, within the confines of the narrative film Videodrome, is a dangerous,... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2011 MOVIES

• VIDEODROME MARATHON: Death to Videodrome– and Its Remake

  

  “Death to Videodrome— and the sequel!” – James Woods, 1987, joking around on the Videodrome set (as quoted in Videodrome by Tim Lucas)Since April of 2009, word... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Screenshot Saturday: Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible (2002)

  

  Few films capture the pain and aftermath of a rape like Irreversible. In a dizzying format, the film plays in reverse with the viewer piecing the pertinent... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• VIDEODROME MARATHON: Opening the Neural Floodgates – Part III

  

  (Continued from Part I and Part II)Videodrome operates with a menacing tone that threatens to seep into ones own consciousness; it proves that it can. Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2011 MOVIES

• VIDEODROME MARATHON: Opening the Neural Floodgates – Part II

  

  (continued from Part I)As for the reality to this fiction, sex plays a big part in the film’s ideology. It seemed to me at first glance simply a misdirect for... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2011 MOVIES

• Screenshot Saturday: Sean Donnelly’s I Think We’re Alone Now (2008)

  

  Hey, a documentary! It’s a Screenshot Saturday first! I Think We’re Alone Now is a small, hour-long docu gem detailing the lives and obsessions of two people... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2011 MOVIES