Watched ANGUISH (1987) and was shocked to basically find a meta-textual horror masterpiece. How has a movie this hypnotic, stylish, anxiety-inducing and weird gone so long without so much as a blu-ray release. If you can find a copy, go in knowing nothing.
A quick question for anybody who wants to answer, just because I'm trying to get my creative juices flowing...
What's your favorite movie or movies that was a box office flop? I'm not talking about like "Man of Steel made $700 million rather than $1 billion," I'm talking about movies that bombed.
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I’d been trying to think of what SINNERS’ anachronistic setpiece reminded me of and finally realized that it’s this moment in Alan Rudolph’s THE MODERNS (set entirely in 1920s Paris). Which is not explained (twice) by voiceover narration.
I'm very proud to announce that I worked on @arrowvideo.bsky.social 's upcoming 4k release of ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS. I wrote an essay for the booklet and dove into the fundamental pleasures of Lucio Fulci's style. I think it's one of the best things I've written.
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"i've seen things you people wouldn't believe. a therapist trying to tell me to make friends. one hundred movies that look like Windows 2000 screensavers"
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I wrote about Bertrand Bonello's HOUSE OF TOLERANCE, a deeply moving and hypnotic film about the lives of Parisian brothel workers at the turn of the 19th century.
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"Honor" and "service" and "sacrifice" are tools empire uses to convince people to die for it and to convince their loved ones that these deaths have meaning, when in reality their only purpose is to enrich functionaries at the core and spread hegemony.
Shameless prompt post: what is your “hell yeah” album? Like it comes on and elicits the biggest lizard-brain “hell yeah” from you? For me, it’s Silent Alarm.
It came on in my car this afternoon and I forgot I had been listening to it earlier. Hence the “hell yeah”