Alright, I admit I am fearful of spiders. I understand their importance in the ecological chain of things. And their webs are a thing of beauty. But if I ever see an eight-legged critter skitter across the kitchen floor my…
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Phase IV is, sadly, the only feature film by legendary graphic artist Saul Bass, who designed great title sequences for directors Otto Preminger and Alfred Hitchcock (including acting as “pictorial consultant” for the all-important shower sequence in Psycho). The movie…
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This wildly eclectic selection of newly remastered cult films on Blu-ray makes me an April fool, for sure. One from the director affectionately called “Mr. B.I.G” Bert I. Gordon, a big-budgeted Jess Franco chiller, two sleaze greats from Bob Cresse…
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This winter I have been determined to make a list of movies I have always wanted to see and attempt to track them down. Now, I once picked up a 1972 movie pressbook for a double bill of What Became…
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There are quite a few movies I like for all the wrong reasons. It’s not that they are bad (although a few of them are), it’s because they contain a scene that I love torturing friends with when they come…
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Spellbinding, superbly acted, tale of queer revenge, expertly directed by Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping. Jules (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) is a black performance artist in a London gay club. His drag attire gets him savagely beat up by a…
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A great month of rare crackpot Blu-rays from around the globe- from offbeat Italian thrillers, strange Spanish mysteries, an impossible-to-see film from a pioneering American gay director, three film noirs starring Edward G. Robinson, an anti-Communist sci-fi film from the…
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Someone had the nerve to ask me last week, “How do you like living this “third act” of your life?” Third act? Are you kidding? I’m living the “epilogue.” But at least I don’t wake up every morning in a…
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Looking back on the 10 years I lived in Provincetown on Cape Cod I remember how bleak the winters could sometimes be. I also remembered something I learned during that time- a watched pot does too boil. This winter I’ve…
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During the winter doldrums I find myself looking up “Dopamine” online. Sure, I know it’s some sort of “reward center” in your brain and that junk food and sugar release plenty of dopamine into your system. But what other things…
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