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TALKING PICTURES: ROLLERBALL SMACKDOWN

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Writer David Templeton takes interesting people to the movies in his ongoing quest for the ultimate post-film conversation. This week a London crime-writer attacks the violence in “Rollerball”…

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TALKING PICTURES: ROLLERBALL SMACKDOWN

"That was . . .that . . . that was very hard . . .um, very, very hard to watch." Jake Arnott---the London-born author of The Long Firm, celebrated in the...

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CITIZEN TOXIE: THE TOXIC AVENGER PART 4

Uncle Lloyd has done it again! Hell, he's welcome to come by my place to kick the dog any day! He and his Troma Team have once again provided...

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BY HOOK OR BY CROOK

Tiny dead-end towns must be the worst place in the world to grow up as a homosexual. Nosy neighbors with closed minds and a dearth of anyone to meet often...

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TWO TOWNS OF JASPER

June 7, 1998 saw the worst racially-motivated murder since the Civil Rights movement in Jasper, Texas. Early that morning on a deserted road, three white...

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ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS

The black comedy is something of a double-edged sword. It is without a doubt the most visible, most financially profitable segment of African-American...

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THE TIME MACHINE

How strange that during a screening of "The Time Machine" my own watch would become a source of so much fascination. In fact, I found myself glancing at...

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THE KOMEDIANT

Unless you are a diehard devotee of the Yiddish-language culture, there is little reason to seek out "The Komediant," a 1999 Isræli documentary which...

TALKING PICTURES: MYSTERY MOTHMAN

Loren Coleman wasn't all that frightened by The Mothman Prophecies, the odd new creepshow starring Richard Gere as a journalist on the trail of an eerie...

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KISSING JESSICA STEIN

After a century of moving pictures, one of the greatest challenges to cinema, is saying something fresh, original, and new about humanity's most basic need...

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DIGITAL DIRTY MOVIE IS A FIRST

These girls will do anything! It was only a matter of time before someone used computer animation to make an adult film. Computer animation artists are...

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