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SUMMER OF STINK 2005

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15. The Skeleton Key ^ “Psychological horror” is generally Hollywood code speak for “boring,” especially when the film in question is PG-13….

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SUMMER OF STINK 2005

15. The Skeleton Key ^ “Psychological horror” is generally Hollywood code speak for “boring,” especially when the film in question is PG-13. That...

FILM PHONICS: "PLAYING BY HEART"

Word of the Week: Lay PLAYING BY HEART * * * Director & Writer: Willard Carroll Producers: Willard Carroll, Meg Liberman, and Thomas L....

SUMMER OF STINK 2005

Hoo-wee! Who cut the cheese? Oh, wait a minute. That’s the lingering stench of the summer season I smell. Sure was a rough one and we can all breathe a...

Bootleg Files Features

THE BOOTLEG FILES: "BAAL"

BOOTLEG FILES 094: "Baal” (1982 BBC adaptation of the Bertolt Brecht drama starring David Bowie). LAST SEEN: In a British Film Institute retro screening...

EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: FLYING TOAST AND MORONS IN LINGERIE

The audience, myself included, stood in the aisles. Then, as if on cue, everyone but me fell to the floor. I was left standing, shaking my head in...

ENTER THE DEN OF SIN: DAMN YOU STINKING HIPPIES!

Right from the get go things were looking up. To start with, being made by an American director who was actually affected by the things he was examining,...

MOVIE MARKETING MADNESS: THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE

Late summer and early fall always brings out the inner boogeyman in the major studios. They pounce upon Halloween like a fat kid on a cupcake. It's the...

FILM PHONICS: "MINORITY REPORT"

Word of the week: Port MINORITY REPORT * * * 1/2 Director: Steven Spielberg Writers: Scott Frank and Jon Cohen Producers: Jan de Bont, Bonnie Curtis,...

ENTER THE DEN OF SIN: DAMN YOU STINKING HIPPIES!

As mentioned in previous columns, we’d been having a bit of a problem getting people to shut the hell up during the films. And being that I’d decided...

MPAA ON TRIAL: TAKE THE NC-17 AND SHOVE IT

Usually when I aim an article towards the Motion Picture Association of America and their ridiculous standards toward giving certain films a particular...

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