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My Fair Lady (1964)

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Published: September 19, 2024 03:26

My wife and I honeymooned in a little town in Ontario called Stratford. Like its namesake in England, the birthplace of Shakespeare, Stratford had three major theaters. They put on world-class productions. We saw several shows while we were there and had a…

Watch The Smashing Pumpkins Perform an Acoustic “Cherub Rock” on MTV Most Wanted, 1993

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Published: September 17, 2024 19:46

Bring Out the Perverts: Deep Red (1975)

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Published: September 17, 2024 19:43

I wrote about Deep Red for my Friday Night Horror movie a little over a year ago. I don’t know that I have a whole lot more to say about it. It is my favorite Giallo. I think it perfectly encapsulates everything I love about the genre. Dario Argento is a…

The Whip and the Body (1963)

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Published: September 17, 2024 02:58

I’ve written about Mario Bava’s kinky melodramatic gothic romance before. It was a Friday Night Horror Movie last summer. But I got a nice Blu-ray copy of it this past spring and wrote another thing about it for Cinema Sentries. I always like it when I…

Torso is the Pick of the Week

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Published: September 17, 2024 02:32

I recognize that no one really cares what my Blu-ray pick of the week is. Out of the few hundred people who will even see these articles there’s probably only a dozen or so that actually read them. And I can’t imagine any of them are in any way influenced…

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XX

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Published: September 16, 2024 02:24

Alan Ladd was one of the great film noir actors. He had a star-making turn as a contract killer in This Gun For Hire alongside Veronica Lake. He made three more noirs with her and continued to star in various noirs throughout his career. Kino Lorber…

The Friday Night Horror Movie: An American Werewolf In London (1981)

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Published: September 14, 2024 03:30

There are certain movies that evoke a particular time and place in your memories. An American Werewolf in London is one such movie for me. I don’t remember the first time I ever watched it. I know I owned a copy of the VHS tape in college. My collection…

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XVII

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Published: September 12, 2024 23:53

Edward G. Robinson is one of my favorite actors. He became famous for portraying snarling, and deadly gangsters, and he’s great in that type of role in films like Little Ceasar and Key Largo (1948). But he made all types of other films from film noirs to…

Wilco Announce Winterlude Tour Dates

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Published: September 12, 2024 11:58

To beat the winter blues Wilco is doing a small residency tour to a few cities. Luckily they are coming to mine and I will definitely be buying tickets. I’ve seen them half a dozen times and they never disappoint. Presales started yesterday and you can…

Bring Out the Perverts: Death Walks at Midnight (1972)

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Published: September 12, 2024 02:25

By 1972 the Giallo was already well established and quite popular. Mario Bava had created its template and Dario Argento had perfected it, but by this stage, many others had begun to play in that particular sandbox. Quite a few of the directors now making…

Inside Out 2 is the Pick of the Week

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Published: September 10, 2024 21:49

I assume most of you saw my message on the music site. I’m having hard drive trouble so that site is on pause for now. Dealing with that nonsense is likely gonna slow my writing down on this site. But it is Tuesday and I know everybody is desperately…

Watch Bob Dylan Perform “Silvio” in Somerset, WI (09/06/24)

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Published: September 9, 2024 02:39

First time he’s performed it since 2004.

Bring Out the Perverts: Blood and Black Lace (1964)

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Published: September 8, 2024 20:57

Mario Bava’s 1963 film The Girl Who Knew Too Much is generally considered the first Giallo ever made. While it does contain many of the hallmarks of that genre, it is missing one important ingredient: color. It was filmed totally in black and white. As if…

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XVIII

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Published: September 8, 2024 03:38

Kino Lorber has been putting out these film noir sets for a few years now. I love them. I’ve watched most of them and reviewed more than a few. The thing with them is that they are collecting the b-sides of film noir. The best films in the genre get their…

The Friday Night Horror Movie: Longlegs (2024)

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Published: September 7, 2024 03:18

A young F.B.I. agent, Lee Harker (Maika Monroe), and her partner go house-to-house door knocking. They are looking for someone. Someone dangerous. As soon as she gets out of the car she stares at one particular house. She knows it is the one. The killer is…

Bring Out the Perverts: The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (1970)

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Published: September 6, 2024 21:03

Dario Argento’s debut film was not the first Giallo ever made (Mario Bava’s 1963 film The Girl Who Knew Too Much usually gets that honor, followed by another Bava film Blood and Black Lace from 1964 – both of which I’ll be writing about later). Nor did it…

Bring Out The Perverts: Giallo On The Criterion Channel

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Published: September 6, 2024 02:12

Criterion was one of the first boutique physical media companies. They started making Laserdiscs as far back as 1984 and then eventually moved to DVDs, Blu-rays, and most recently 4K UHD. They specialize in arthouse, foreign, and independent movies.…

Apocalypse Now (1979)

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Published: September 5, 2024 19:11

Apocalypse Now is one of, if not the greatest war movies ever made. I can’t remember when I first watched it. I was probably in high school or maybe college. I do remember watching it again off an old VHS tape. I had taped it off TCM or HBO or some such…