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CABIN BOY (1994)
I just watched one of my favourite comedies of the 1990s, 1994's CABIN BOY, which has a new blu-ray release. It's a film that Rebecca and I have been occasionally quoting back and forth at each other for 25 years now. Wish I could say I got a lot of enjoyment out of the audio commentary, but director Adam Resnick spent the run-time talking about ( Read more... ) -
WE CAN BE WHO WE ARE (Bear Manor Media Publishing, 2015)
Lee Gambin is one of those guys who never takes a break. He's always working on at least 2 exhaustively researched film books at any given time, and he's also the man behind the Australian exhibition collective 'Cinemaniacs', which is based in Melbourne, and screens curated seasons of vintage genre cinema ( Read more... ) -
RED HEAT (1985)
Here's a page that was good enough to make the cut for the brand new issue of Cinema Sewer (issue #30), but since I was one page over the limit and this was the only single page review in the issue, it sadly had to be the odd man out. Instead, you get to enjoy it here -- so it ain't all bad ( Read more... ) -
BLACK NYLONS AND HIGH HEELS
Today in the mail, something I bought on ebay arrived. An original 8X10 glossy photo (complete with original transparency tear sheet for the layout and design staff) used in the production of #10 of BLACK NYLONS AND HIGH HEELS, which was published by Dawson Publishing Co in the late 1950s.
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Taboo (1980)
Taboo (Kirdy Stevens / U.S. 1980 ( Read more... ) -
LES GIRLS OF HARDCORE
It's a look at 1970s pornography through the eyes of a character who detests everything about it, but every person I know who loves classic porn, also loves Paul Schrader's HARDCORE. Best known for writing the screenplay for Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (another film that shares the lurid theme of exploring an unseen urban subculture), Paul had ( Read more... )
