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• 28-Sep-2024
  Megalopolis Please take a few minutes to read the review of Megalopolis by Nick Mamatas. It starts with the line “I object to every moment of this film.” and only gets better from there. The trailer is astounding in ways both good and bad. What I’ve found is that when media bridges that gap–between astounding good...

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• 12-May-2024

  
  Roger Corman my excuse to reminisce the time I was an extra on a monster movie More people die than I feel I can properly memorialize in this blog, so not every famous person gets an obituary here. But for Roger Corman I’m making an exception. in 1978 my parents, sister, and me lived at 70 6th Street in New Manila, Quezon City on the island of Luzon in the Philippines....

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• 26-Feb-2024

  
  Film Threat Video Recommendations: Duplass This is a post that is a draft from last year after San Diego Comic Con 2023. In my heyday of subscribing to and purchasing paper magazines one of my favorites was Film Threat. It’s not a perfect magazine by any means but it is a brand that has survived and adapted. And film has...

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• 31-Jan-2024

  
  Oscillate Wildly Lorraine Lyon Now, honestly, what’s the point of being a billionaire if I can’t have somebody killed? Kelly and I have been watching “comedy crime drama” tv show Fargo. It started in 2014. It just finished its fifth season. I’ve resisted all those seasons for 8 years because “comedy crime drama” usually means “lots of...

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• 11-Jun-2023
  Nimona and Hindsight hindsight. Nimona is wonderful. Looking forward to the film.

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• 13-Dec-2022
  QOTD: MDWA “Tell me, why do we require a trip to Mount Everest in order to be able to perceive one moment of reality? I mean… I mean, is Mount Everest more “real” than New York? I mean, isn’t New York “real”? I mean, you see, I think if you could become fully aware of what existed...

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• 13-Jan-2022

  
  Spielberg’s Films by “Year of Release” versus “Year Set” The other day, over on twitter, Todd Vaziri sent a lazyweb request that piqued my interest: free cinema chart idea chart the films of steven spielberg and graph the release date minus the year the film takes place you know, for fun How does one do timelines these days anyway? I had a vague memory...

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• 22-Nov-2021
  Wayne White I surely wish I’d seen Wayne White’s exhibit “Big Lectric Fan to Keep Me Cool While I Sleep” — it is goofy and wonderfully made. I’m ragged but I’m right, you know. I think I’ll watch Beauty is Embarrassing a few more times before the year 2021 ends.

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• 23-Apr-2020

  
  New Bot Day! Bring in the FEMBOT! The ultimate weapon: the latest word in android replicant technology: brutal, lethal, efficient: no man can resist their charms. They are armed with machine guns and knockout gas and feminine wiles. They seduce the spy Austin Powers but are disabled by Powers’ seductive striptease mojo. Silly greatness from 1997’s Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.

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• 20-Apr-2020

  
  New Bot Day! Teddy is a Super-Toy first seen in 2001’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence. He originated in 1969 science fiction short story by Brian Aldiss, “Supertoys Last All Summer Long.” Teddy is doleful and wise and a companion to the films’ protagonist: artificial boy David. The movie is visually ambitious but ultimately more failed fairy tale than classic SF. Teddy is Jiminy Cricket to David’s Pinocchio.

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• 31-Aug-2019

  
  Miracle Mile Q&A! Miracle Mile is one of my favorite movies. It is downbeat, carries a message, has a relatable fellow who lives in Los Angeles, has a short love story, has a great rapprochement in it, tons of vivid couples. Vivid individual characters who read like real Angelenos to me. The argument about the best way to...

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• 16-Oct-2015

  
  Note the distinct lack of any specific magazine or the category “magazine” as a way I might find out about new #movies #bridgeofspies

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• 18-Dec-2014
  WORKING AS DESIGNED The smartest take on The Interview debacle I’ve read is in “America didn’t cave. Hollywood didn’t cave. Capitalism caved.” by David Atkins. This is the free market everyone says solves everything. Well, it does, but it doesn’t solve things in ways that have anything to do with “freedom of speech.”: “But in truth, neither “America”...

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• 25-Sep-2012

  
  Up From The Depths: on DVD This is the movie on which basis I put myself into the IMDB. And I’ve included it on my bio for quite a while. You can purchase it, though really, you shouldn’t, on Amazon.

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• 14-Feb-2011

  
  RoboCop Valentine by Dresden Codak Crossposted to New City.

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• 29-Dec-2010
  Danny Trejo’s Prayer Lord, if you’re there, it’ll be okay, if not, I’m screwed. And a bonus quote from Danny Trejo: “Everything good that has happened in my life, has been a direct result of helping someone else.” from Champion

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• 27-Sep-2010

  
  Brass in Pocket ’cause I gon’ make you see nobody else here no one like me I’m special (Special) so special (Special)

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• 25-Feb-2010
  Lyrics of the Day; Dialogue of the Day Don’t Forget Your Old Shipmates: Safe and sound at home again, let the waters roar, Jack. Safe and sound at home again, let the waters roar, Jack. Long we’ve tossed on the rolling main, now we’re safe ashore, Jack. Don’t forget yer old shipmates, faldee raldee raldee raldee rye-eye-doe! We have worked the self-same gun,...

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• 22-Feb-2010

  
  Capricorn One Capricorn One is a favorite movie of mine. If it’s on TV, particularly if it’s on widescreen, I can scarcely avoid it. It came out in 1978. I saw it the year it came out. It left a big impression on me. Part of my fascination was that there can be things that are stated...

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• 12-Aug-2009
  Goodness Knows Why Quote of the Day, from Film Director Peter Jackson I mean, personally I think that’s one of the most depressing things about the film industry generally today. The writers and directors should be blamed just as much as the studios because really everything seems to be a remake or adapting a 1970s TV show that...

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• 09-Aug-2009
  John Waters: No Smoking When I was in my teens in San Diego, I loved movies. I didn’t like all movies, I was more discriminating, or snobbish, depending on how you looked at it. I loved seeing movies at The Ken in Kensington, and The Cove in La Jolla. The Cove is no longer there. There was one in...

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• 26-Jan-2009

  
  Beetlejuice & The Joker I’m sorry to report I forget where I found this last week. But I love this image of two of my favorite tricksters: What’s a trickster? In mythology, and in the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a god, goddess, spirit, man, woman, or anthropomorphic animal who plays tricks or otherwise disobeys normal...

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• 25-Jan-2009
  Who Watches the Watchmen? In 1986 and 1987 the comics series Watchmen came out. I was 16 years old at the time and the work was mindblowing. I had been looking forward to it since I had read it was coming in DC Spotlight #1, a freebie I’d acquired at Comic Con the year before. It looked like it...

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• 30-Dec-2008

  
  Amoeba in the Morning I think if you had told me in 1991 that in 2008 I’d be working right next door to a major record (read: music and movies) store I’d have been delighted. Heck, I’m delighted now. It’s where I pulled off the major coup of getting Leah a copy of Savannah Smiles for our Anniversary last...

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