1600 words on Street Dance of China By Amanda Hudgins • August 3rd, 2021 Street Dance of China Season 3 starts with a two minute cinematic about isolation and community, at once apocalyptic and familiar
sinning with old By Amanda Hudgins • July 28th, 2021 Old is a weird movie in that it invites thought and immediately falls apart if you think about it too hard.
Eyeing Elsewhere Feeding The Chimera By Phillip Russell • June 11th, 2021 I’m stuck on this feeling I have while playing Biomutant where I want to like it. I want it to succeed, and I want it to figure out its own voice.
Unholy Blood: Santa Sangre (1989) on 4K Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • June 1st, 2021 Whatever really happened on the set of El Topo, Jodorowsky is, at best, a guy who bragged about raping someone for publicity, and this is what I knew about the director of Santa Sangre.
#AsianReadathon 2021 By Amanda Hudgins • May 31st, 2021 This year, I decided to once again participate in #AsianReadathon, an event run by YouTuber withCindy focused on getting participants to read books written by Asian authors.
Black-Hearted Women: Switchblade Sisters (1975) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • May 27th, 2021 Does it always work? Naturally not, this is Switchblade Sisters, after all, not whatever venerated classic movie title you want to put here that, in your mind, always works.
Evil Washes Out Evil: A Daiei Invisible Man Double-Feature By Orrin Grey • May 20th, 2021 It’s something of a homecoming to be tackling The Invisible Man Appears and The Invisible Man vs. the Human Fly on Arrow Video Blu here
Days of Beasts and Cocaine: An Alex de la Iglesia Double-Feature By Orrin Grey • April 15th, 2021 That’s what I did; two-fisting this particular double-feature with a shot of Day of the Beast and a chaser of Perdita Durango.
No Bright Side: Crimewave (1985) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • April 7th, 2021 In many ways, Crimewave is the kind of movie I live for: a bonkers, underseen, early-career flick from legendary filmmakers who went on to much bigger things.
portrayal of guilt’s Anthems Against False Hope By Levi Rubeck • April 5th, 2021 Anthems for sinking ships, as if the tide itself was a choleric spirit drawing you down to a lightless ocean floor.