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A screenshot from one of the Whistler movies, a black and white shot of one man on the left trying to calm down an exasperated man on the right with a very stern look on his face

Rough Shadows: The Whistler Films on Blu-ray

By Orrin Grey • June 12th, 2024

There’s nothing here that’s a forgotten classic or destined to become a new favorite, but it’s nice to have them around, and it’s great, as always, that Indicator is doing the work to preserve some of these B-roll pictures.

A screenshot from one of the Abashiri Prison movies, with three tough gangsters shot from below with bright clouds behind them. One is in sunglasses and formal wear, while the others appear a little more bratty

The Place That Is Nowhere: Abashiri Prison 1-3 from Eureka

By Orrin Grey • May 31st, 2024

The star of the show becomes Abashiri itself, and the frozen landscape that surrounds it, which makes escape seem impossible, even long after the inmates are outside the prison walls.

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MST3K and My New Appreciation for Bad Movies

By Rob Rich • May 14th, 2024

The semi-recent discovery of a perpetual Mystery Science Theater 3000 marathon has made Rob realize that a lot of bad movies really aren’t so bad. On paper, anyway.

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A still from Poor Things shows main character Bella gazing out from a stone balcony at a cotton candy-colored sunset.

Going to Extremes

By Noah Springer • May 9th, 2024

Drawing lines between Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things and Nikos Nikolaidis’ cult favorite Singapore Sling. Did the latter influence the former?

Run It Back

A still from Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives shows several red-eyed gorillas sitting in a misty forest, staring straight at the viewer.

2011

By Oluwatayo Adewole • April 26th, 2024

Tayo heads back to 2011, taking a look at two films which show us how the world beyond etches itself onto our reality.

A screenshot from The Bat Woman where a fishman is on underwater camera maybe or some other ancient monitoring device he's just swimming around loving life

Wrestling and Sex: Three Mexican Wrestling Films from Director Rene Cardona

By Orrin Grey • April 19th, 2024

While all three of the films that we’re discussing today may not have been released in alternate cuts with sexo in the title, all three are definitely films that are skirting Mexican censors of the late ‘60s and using sex appeal to help sell their stories of masked wrestlers, lycanthropes, mad science, swinging spies, and… lepers?

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A still from Children of Men shows a man leading a woman and her just-born child through a throng of soldiers.

Apocalyptic Pregnancy

By Natasha Ochshorn • April 19th, 2024

Perhaps an emotional response to a presidential election year, the weather, uncontrolled rent, or genocide – people on a large scale are questioning parenting as an ethical choice.

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