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THE BOOTLEG FILES: “ALICE OF WONDERLAND IN PARIS”

By | October 2006

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, Phil passes out the magic mushrooms…

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THE BOOTLEG FILES: “ALICE OF WONDERLAND IN PARIS”

BOOTLEG FILES 150: “Alice of Wonderland in Paris” (1966 animated atrocity). LAST SEEN: Available for online viewing at MovieFlix. AMERICAN HOME...

EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: LONG DEAD FROM NEW YORK, IT’S SATURDAY NIGHT!

It’s a sentence no serious cinemaphile wants to hear. “I just love the ‘Saturday Night Live’ movies.” That’s worse than hearing the doctor...

THE EL CAPITAN EXPERIENCE

(In honor of today’s release of the two-disc Platinum Edition of "The Little Mermaid," I go back to September 10th, my first visit to the El Capitan...

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THE BOOTLEG FILES: “GAMERA VS. MONSTER X”

BOOTLEG FILES 149: “Gamera vs. Monster X” (1970 kaiju shenanigans based at the Osaka World’s Fair). LAST SEEN: Available for online viewing at...

EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: NOAH’S BARK

I’m one of five people who has not read Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code.” I haven’t seen the movie, either. Tom Hanks with long, greasy hair is...

DECOMMISSIONING THE “JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA”

In 1997, CBS commissioned a live-action Justice League of America pilot, based on the popular DC Comics characters. The trainwreck that followed found its...

EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: DOPE PUSHERS

You’ve all had this experience. “I just saw this movie I know you’d love,” she says. “What is it?” you ask. “It’s this romantic comedy...

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THE BOOTLEG FILES: “GAMERA”

BOOTLEG FILES 148: “Gamera” (1965 kaiju romp with the world’s largest turtle). LAST SEEN: Available for download via Public Domain...

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THE BOOTLEG FILES: “OUR TOWN”

BOOTLEG FILES 147: “Our Town” (1955 TV musical with Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint). LAST SEEN: We cannot confirm the last public...

EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: THE GROSS

I recently finished Peter Bart’s “The Gross,” an examination of Hollywood in the summer of 1998. It sounds like it may be interesting, with that...

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