Another bombshell I missed over the weekend: the revelation of an unusual affinity I have with, yup, Nikki FInke. On Saturday she averred that David Cronenberg's "enigmatic adaptation of J.G.…
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Old Blue Eyes ruefully contemplates the decline of a once-great American periodical. You know the film this is from.
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Just kidding! It's Mothra, by Inishiro Honda, 1961. Yup, I got the Icons of Sci-Fi: Toho Collection. If my apartment had really kick-ass air conditioning, and I myself had two…
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Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese, 1976 The Last Days of Disco, Whit Stillman, 1998
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Photo by Francesco CarrozziniI'm not much in the habit of checking out gay-male-oriented fashion-driven quarterly magazines published on almost anachronistically thick paper stock, but I did do a double take…
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Ah, the good old Kuleshov effect. Fred Astaire in The Towering Inferno. The new Fox Blu-ray of this quite 1974 magnificent kitsch fest is a very lovely thing indeed. For…
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