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My Friend Dahmer Review: The Dilemma Between Disgust and Empathy
My Friend Dahmer emphasizes how the culture of cruelty and selfishness in high school can aid in masking real warning signs. But to forgive or not to forgive is another question entirely.
Cinematic Odysseys Through the Underworld
Veronica takes a closer look at a different kind of odyssey. Featuring Showgirls, Good Time and Tangerine.
Wait For Your Laugh and the Enduring Talent of Rose Marie
An engaging documentary about a woman who went from vaudeville, to radio, to variety shows, to Broadway, to television, to game shows, to stage shows, to voice overs and still is looking for more work in her ninties.
Giallo to Grindhouse: Our Fascination With Violence
What is it that interests humans in seeing others killed, maimed, or tortured? A look at giallo, grindhouse, and the beyond.
Neon is Our New Technicolor
There is a slew of newer movies that have been embracing “knock your eyes out” color, and it doesn't discriminate. Drugs, palm trees, Instagram, mob ties, coming-of-age, death – it's all neon, baby.
Beautiful Trash Part Deux: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
this isn’t the starry-eyed kids of the pre-Vietnam sixties, setting out to make a name for themselves. It’s the druggies and the rockers and they’re here to party because fuck you, old man.
Darren Aronofsky's "mother!" is an Allegory for the Obvious
It's fun, it's bluntly obvious, it's absurd, it's grating, it will make you want to sit down somewhere quiet by the end because your ears are kinda ringing from the sound of incoherent voices, broken glass and explosions.
Nuclear Documentaries or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Our Fate
Worried about a nuclear holocaust? Well here's a list of documentaries that highlight four other things that should terrify you more!
So Basic: Understanding Our Base Desires
Movies that focus on what happens when an otherwise normal mind connects with the purest source of existence.
SubUrbia: The Kitsch Underbelly of America
American suburbia reborn in the '80s and '90s as a haven in a heartless world
The Endless Poetry of Alejandro Jodorowsky
A look at Endless Poetry, Alejandro Jowodrosky's semi-autobiographical coming of age film
Singing Cowboys Make Americana Great Again: Robots, Herb Jeffries, Dorothy Page and Tito Guizar
A look at some of the more obscure singing cowboys films that build a mythical America I want to remember - including Gene Autry, Herb Jeffries, Dorothy Page and Tito Guízar.
Childhood is Hell: The Horror of Coming of Age Movies
Stand By Me and Now and Then faces mortality, while The Transfiguration and Eyes of My Mother accept it head-on.
Laughing Through the Tears: The Big Sick, Dean, and Other People
Comedians Getting Sad In Cars Over Loved Ones. Re: A look at The Big Sick, Dean, and Other People
Double Feature: Life's a Drag, Sweet and Salty Edition (To Wong Foo & Girls Will Be Girls)
Featuring To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar and Girls Will Be Girls.
Nothing Beside Remains: An Appreciation of Alien Covenant
All earth was but one thought — and that was death
Immediate and inglorious
Carlo's Corner: Sequels Don't Suck (Unless They Do)
Making a good sequel is a lot like eating an orange.
Back Row Book Club: Rita Moreno's America
Rita Moreno is sharp, stunning, can sing, dance, act, just everything. She also had a ton of sex with Marlon Brando 👍

