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THE BOOTLEG FILES: GO DOWN DEATH

By | February 2009

Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the wild world of classic and kooky flicks that can only be found on bootlegged videos and DVD. This week, Phil goes to Hell with a bad old movie.

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THE BOOTLEG FILES: GO DOWN DEATH

BOOTLEG FILES 270 “Go Down Death” (1944 all-black film starring and directed by Spencer Williams). LAST SEEN: We cannot confirm the last public...

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GOMORRAH

“Gomorrah” comes to U.S. with an impeccable pedigree: it won the Grand Prize at Cannes and the Best Picture honor at the European Film Awards, and it...

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HE’S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU

There’s a point about halfway into “He’s Just Not That Into You” that actually offers a brief glimmer of hope to weary veterans of a thousand...

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AMATEUR PORN STAR KILLER 3: THE FINAL CHAPTER

If you didn’t like the first two in the “Amateur Porn Star Killer (APSK) series,” you won’t like this one. And keep in mind that the cut of...

BEN OHMART CHANNELS THE VOICE OF FRED FLINTSTONE

In 1977, actor Alan Reed passed away. You may not recognize the name, but you’ll know the voice immediately – he played Fred Flintstone on the...

‘CHICK FLICKS’ THAT AREN’T REALLY ‘CHICK FLICKS’

I've always had a theory that there is no such thing as a good 'chick flick'. In that, I meant that a chick flick was by nature a bad film, made by people...

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SQUEEZEBOX

There was this really great party, it went on every Friday for seven years throughout the 90s, it was very rock-n-roll and very ambi-sexual (with an accent...

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MIRACLE AT ST. ANNA (DVD)

There's a phrase you often hear in the film business: the spine of the story. It refers to the through-line of the plot, off which hang the individual...

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NOT EASILY BROKEN

Dave Johnson (Morris Chestnut), the main character in Bill Duke’s filmic interpretation of T.D. Jakes’s book Not Easily Broken, is approaching that...

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FROZEN RIVER (Blu Ray)

The Film: "Frozen River" is one of the best films of 2008... period. Whatever issues I have with the Oscars this year, all will be forgiven if Melissa Leo...

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