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• VIDEODROME MARATHON: Opening the Neural Floodgates – Introduction

  

  Video Word Made Flesh … Where have I heard that before? Oh yeah, the 1983 classic film Videodrome by David Cronenberg! This is mostly an essay on modern... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Top 10 Bicycle Movies of All Time

  

  If the pleasures of life could be reduced to a few simple objects, the bicycle would top that list. For some, it symbolizes the freedom of recreation. For... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• 10 Films For Labor Day Weekend

  

  I am sure that television has an abundance of movie marathons in store for this Labor Day Weekend. But instead of the usual Action X-travaganza, Lifetime Movie... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Screenshot Saturday: Joseph Losey’s The Servant (1963)

  

  Celebrated in its own time and home country (even netting a few BAFTAs), The Servant is sorely overlooked now, despite its decades ahead of its time... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2011 MOVIES

• How I Spent My Summer Vacation: Mystics in Bali (1981)

  

  At the risk of making generalizations, it’s a fairly safe bet that most people who are passionate about cinema aren’t wild about remakes. Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2011 MOVIES

• How I Spent My Summer Vacation: Cthulhu (2007)

  

  “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown” — H.P. Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• “If I Leave Here Tomorrow, Would You Still Remember Me?”: Freebird and The...

  

  From the beginning, The Devil’s Rejects sets out on a different journey than its predecessor House of a 1000 Corpses. Attaching itself to the personal... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2011 MOVIES

• Screenshot Saturday: Michael Haneke’s Caché (2005)

  

  The subtlety of Michael Haneke’s Caché is profound. With some surveillance footage that barely moves, and little music to accompany the intrigue, Caché... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2011 MOVIES

• VHS Vault: The Funhouse

  

  The 1980’s were a wonderful era of leg warmers, Garbage Pail Kids and questionable cinema full of dumb teenagers and bad decision making. Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2011 MOVIES

• How I Spent My Summer Vacation: Just Before Dawn (1981)

  

  I’m loath to call Jeff Lieberman’s 1981 debut into the slasher genre a disappointment. Saying that a film is a disappointment is tantamount to saying that the... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• How I Spent My Summer Vacation: The Burning (1981)

  

  Tony Maylam’s excursion into the summer camp slash fest The Burning has a lot in common with Just Before Dawn. Both movies were made in 1981, both feature... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Screenshot Saturday: Meir Zarchi’s I Spit On Your Grave (1978)

  

  The impressively resilient rape/revenge sub-genre of horror always proves impressively good or horribly bad. A surprisingly long-lived genre, with directors as... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• “I Wanted to Hurt Him” : One Scene in ‘Burnt Offerings’ (1976)

  

  There’s a very particular moment in The Shining (1980) that frightened me the most—a moment that was never parodied because it whispered in comparison to the... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Screenshot Saturday: Jee Woon-Kim’s I Saw the Devil (2010)

  I Saw the Devil is Kim Ji-Woon’s revenge thriller, depicting one man’s quest to avenge his pregnant girlfriend’s murder. The movie follows Soo-hyun, a secret... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Spinning Wheels with Nowhere to Go in ‘Rubber’ (2010)

  

  If only the creators of Rubber had believed in their concept as much as audiences did.The concept of Rubber holds tremendous campy potential, after all. It... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Exhaustion and Exultation: Tarkovsky’s ‘Stalker’ (1979)

  

  I received an invitation from a friend and former professor of mine inviting me and a number of his other students and colleagues to view Tarkovsky’s Stalker... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2011 MOVIES

• Screenshot Saturday: Roger Corman’s The Intruder (1962)

  

  Neither Roger Corman nor William Shatner is known for their delicacy. Corman, whose latest film Sharktopus premiered on the SyFy channel in 2010, is famous for... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• “Maybe It’s the Power Trying to Come Back On” : The Use of Sound in Jurassic Park

  

  My first memory of noticing sound in a film was Jurassic Park. I was nine years old and entranced by the entire experience. I’d been waiting a long time for... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES