Sunday, March 30, 2025

GUEST POST: Tony Kay on Don't Torture a Duckling: Genre Subversion in Formula Drag

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DON'T TORTURE A DUCKLING / Non si Sevizia un Paperino (Lucio Fulci, Italy, 1972, 105 minutes) By Tony Kay  Sometime in the mid-1960s, Hi...
Saturday, March 29, 2025

Love Her, Love Her Dog: Naomi Watts Stars in Scott McGehee and David Siegel's The Friend

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THE FRIEND  (Scott McGehee and  David Siegel , USA, 2024, 120 minutes) The Friend is a film about a writer, a city, and the loves of her li...
Monday, March 24, 2025

In the Middle of the Night, When There's No One Else: Alan Rudolph's Sultry Choose Me

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CHOOSE ME  (Alan Rudolph, USA, 1984, 106 minutes)  Eve: I don't know why I ask you anything. You're a lunatic.    Mickey: That...
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Bar Hostesses and Electric Jellyfish: Yasuzō Masumura's Quasi-Feminist Film Play It Cool

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PLAY IT COOL aka  ELECTRIC JELLYFISH   (Denki Kurage,  Yasuzō Masumura, Japan , 1970,  94 minutes )  "I hate men." --Yumi (Mari At...
Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Lost and Found Film and TV Reviews: Endless, The Glass Castle, Sanditon, and The Trans List

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Between 2017 and 2020, I wrote a few reviews for both  The Stranger and Video Librarian that fell between the tracks during a time of flux...
Monday, March 3, 2025

The Rule of Jenny Pen: A Nursing Home Spy vs. Spy with John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush

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THE RULE OF JENNY PEN  (James Ashcroft, New Zealand, 2025, 103 minutes)  As any self-respecting Brian De Palma fan will tell you, this isn...
Friday, February 28, 2025

Stranger Flashback: Jay Reatard Lives Again in 2011 Documentary Better Than Something

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This is a revived version of a Line Out post ( The Stranger purged them from the internet some time after they pulled the plug on their mus...