Monthly Archives: May 2006

CRIMINAL WOMAN: KILLING MELODY (DVD)

By | May 2006

As part of the women-as-a-badasses films that hit Japan in the early ’70s, this one is a good place for the uninitiated to start…

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CRIMINAL WOMAN: KILLING MELODY (DVD)

Currently available in the Pinky Violence DVD collection, "Criminal Woman: Killing Melody" is all about Maki's (Reiko Ike) desire to seek revenge on...

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MUD

I was really impressed with “Mud”. Despite its oddly disjointed film style and its uneven focus, “Mud” is an extraordinarily powerful story,...

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THE GREEN FAERIE

“The Green Faerie” brings the silent movie back in a very small way. There’s not a WORD of spoken dialogue anywhere, and the plot is advanced via...

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DR. KATZ PROFESSIONAL THERAPIST: SEASON ONE

When I reviewed “The Critic: The Complete Series” back in 2004, I noted that it and “Dr. Katz Professional Therapist” were the two cult TV shows I...

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DONNIE DARKO DIRECTOR PASSPORT CONFUSION

We're all pretty excited to see how Richard Kelly will follow up "Donnie Darko," especially as details continue to trickle out about his next project...

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NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CLEVER DISTRIBUTION IDEA

Those wacky cats over at National Lampoon just keep on plugging away. While most of their new films only get a teeny theatrical distribution, they did a...

CINEMA CPR: "THE WITCH WHO CAME FROM THE SEA"

What a wild, warped little morsel this is. Like startled beachcombers stumbling onto a bloated whale carcass, viewers of 1976’s “The Witch who came...

EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: SO REAL SURREAL

The film quality is spotty to say the least. It’s obvious it was done with a cheap camera. The voice of the man on the screen isn’t disguised. His...

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PETER BOGDANOVICH AND THE HEARTBREAKERS

Peter Bogdanovich won't back down from the great wide open film he's doing on Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Bogdanovich admits he's been free falling...

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I WANNA BE PACINO…YOU CAN BE DENIRO!!

Director Michael Mann's under-appreciated classic "Heat" is about to become a video game featuring original cast members Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro's...

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