Monthly Archives: August 2005

THE BOOTLEG FILES: “THE BAY CITY ROLLERS MEET THE SATURDAY SUPERSTARS”

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Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the funky world of rare, classic and hard-to-find films which can only be obtained via bootleg video channels. This week, Witchiepoo turns Phil into a fan of Scottish bubble gum pop!

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THE BOOTLEG FILES: “THE BAY CITY ROLLERS MEET THE SATURDAY SUPERSTARS”

BOOTLEG FILES 090: "The Bay City Rollers Meet the Saturday Superstars” (1978 one-shot TV special mixing bad Scottish pop with awful kiddie...

BRING BACK THE SEVENTIES: AN INTERVIEW WITH ERIC FLEMING

I saw “The Almost Guys” a few months before the 2005 Jacksonville Film Festival started. Once I learned that the film was screening at the festival, I...

Reviews

THE TROUBLES WE'VE SEEN: A HISTORY OF JOURNALISM IN WARTIME

The title of Marcel Ophuls’ “The Troubles We’ve Seen: A History of Journalism in Wartime”is not entirely accurate: this is not a history lesson in...

ABSOLUTION

Five minutes on an alarm clock feels like five seconds. Five minutes of a film, on the other hand, feels like anything between ten minutes and ten hours....

THE G.I. EXECUTIONER (DVD)

“The G.I. Executioner” (a.k.a “Wild Dragon Lady”and “Wits End”) recounts a week or so in the life of Dave Dearborn. Dave is a ‘Nam...

LIGHTNING BUG (DVD)

When a film begins as average as Lightning Bug, one expects it to plunge further into the abyss of films not worth watching, but a curious thing happens as...

XANADU

It needs to be said! It must be said! And here, on the 25th anniversary of its theatrical premiere, it will be said: “Xanadu” is the greatest movie...

MORE SHORTS FOR LOS ANGELES

The 9th Annual Los Angeles International Short Film Festival returns to the ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood September 6-12, 2005. “LA Shorts Fest” is...

News

“REEL PARADISE” TRAILER

EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: REJECTING THE REJECTS

I waited for The Devil’s Rejects with an erection and a gun -- hoping it would satisfy, but ready to kill if it didn’t. It did, and I didn’t have to...

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