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Do Not Disturb (2013)
Do Not Disturb strikes me as the kind of movie that's hatched during a night of whiskey sours and blow at The Viper Room. There's the myth that the movie business is composed of rich people working...
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Coming Soon: SCIENCE TEAM
Buncom Media International sent out an email a few days ago with news I thought was pretty cool. Buncom is the group behind The Taint, a subversive splatter picture that I thought was borderline...
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Gallowwalkers (2013)
I was walking side by side with Gallowwalkers for about twenty minutes. Andrew Goth, the director, has a decent eye for mimicking the long-gone Spaghetti Westerns. Arid land stretches from one edge...
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I Declare War (2013)
Do kids even play war anymore? In this age of persistent pearl-clutching, I can't imagine many parents let their children run the neighborhood, toy guns in hand, pretending to carry out acts of...
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Punk Vacation (1987)
Stanley Lewis' Punk Vacation is a wonderful work of eighties dirt. It doesn't aspire to anything weighty, nor does it need to. Anyone watching a movie called Punk Vacation is expecting escapism,...
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Passion (2013)
I'm a De Palma fanboy. Recently I ordered Chris Dumas' Un-American Psycho: Brian De Palma and the Political Invisible. There's about five other books I need to finish before I dive into that...
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Magic Magic (2013)
If the Oscars actually meant anything, then Juno Temple would surely receive a nomination for the self-destructive, forlorn wonder she delivers in Magic Magic. This is a feat of acting so singularly...
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Among Friends (2013)
A group of drug-abusing assholes gather together at their friend's house for an 80s themed murder mystery party. Seems their host, Bernadette, is moving far, far away to work as a psychiatrist,...
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American Mary (2013)
I was not a fan of the Soska Sisters' Dead Hooker in a Trunk. As is the de facto move in the genre press, much digital ink was spilled about that picture's low, low budget, as if the filmmakers...
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I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013)
Lee: What does Joe like?Elliot: Um... "Body Bags 2". Lee: Oooo, that's imaginative. I've got more taste in my penis. Saul Rubinek was on the money in True Romance. Couldn't the company have changed...
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Bad Milo! (2013)
Back when I reviewed Hell Baby, I mentioned that I never got the appeal of MTV's The State. You would have thought I wrote an op-ed that gave the thumbs up to stretching the dirty holes of...
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+1 (2013)
I recently read an article in The Guardian that took a look at the declining number of Japanese people actively pursuing romantic relationships. A survey conducted in 2011 found 61% of unmarried...
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Phantasm II (1988)
As a towheaded six-year old in 1988, I didn't want to see Phantasm II--I needed to see Phantasm II. Universal Studios marketed the shit of the picture (or, at least it seems that way in my memory)....
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Living Doll (1990)
I see how it is -- it's okay to make a movie about a man stealing the corpse of a woman from the morgue and keeping it in his house. That's just hunky-dory. Something like that will find financing,...
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Tales From the Crypt: "Three's a Crowd" (1990)
Of all the characters Tales From the Crypt tortured during its run, none suffered a more bitter and vicious end than the trio at the center of "Three's a Crowd." Growing up, I loved Tales From the...
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Vacation & Whathaveyou
Fellow Degenerates, November is here, and that means Captain Dipshit is going to be fairly busy wrapping up the autumn semester of college. As much as I enjoy writing for this thing, it neither pays...
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Upstream Color (2013)
I have sat with Upstream Color since July, watching it once a month. Aside from telling people that I saw it, I haven't attempted to extrapolate it. It was a movie that sat with me. I needed to...
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25 Days of Shitmas
Ahoy-hoy! Come celebrate the holidays over at Shit Movie Fest! Their third annual 25 Days of Shitmas has started, and there's already some hefty loads posted. Yours truly will have an entry on the...
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Butterfly (1982)
I can't tell if I wanna fuck Pia Zadora. Sometimes her round cheeks and full lips are enticing; other times she looks like a cracking Vince Neil wax figure. It is the strangest damn thing. Zadora...
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Shootin' Pool With a Piece of Rope: Stripped to Kill (1987)
Are there cops who have actually gone undercover as strippers? It seems to me that is a rather implausible idea. Sure, undercover fuzz are asked to do a fair amount of shady shit, but actually...
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Clip (2013)
Every year the Oscars struggle to find five actresses to nominate, and Hollywood press mags bemoan the lack of parts for women, as though good performances can only come from established names in...
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Best of 2013
Identity was the running theme through my top ten. Each film centered not on a battle between external foes, but on the protagonist's inability to reconcile the multitude of desires and fears churning...
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Worst of 2013
In retrospect, 2013 was a mundane year at the movies. It wasn't particularly awful (like, say 2005 was), nor was it really that memorable. It sat there, churning out movies that will find themselves...
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Abduction of an American Playgirl (1975) / Winter Heat (1976)
Eight days into 2014, and the winter season is turning out to be a bitch. Like most of you, I've been trapped in my house, trying desperately to avoid the nearly -40 below temperatures. I've said it...
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Dropping Evil (2012)
I once watched a video where a woman, crouched down and masturbating beside a horse, was kicked in the head by the beast's magnificent hooves. It was funny and simple. There was a woman. There was a...
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