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Wow, the restaurant scene in Scarface (1983) is powerful. That's all I kept thinking the other night when I watched Brian De Palma's epic tale of the rise and fall of Cuban "political refugee" and drug lord Tony Montana (Al Pacino in one of his most popular and oft-quoted roles). The movie is chock-full of … Continue reading Surviving Scarface: Elvira
Halloween images are flooding our social media feeds right now, offering a much-needed respite from the looming, suffocating dread of the current socio-political climate. You think Halloween is scary? Ha! I’ll take fun and spooky thrills and chills over real-world horrors any day, and twice on Sunday. Speaking of Sunday, what better day to sleep … Continue reading Season of the Witch: Morgan Fairchild
‘Tis the season. I don’t know about you but I’m in full autumn mode already. The house is stocked with bags of pumpkin spice coffee, the fridge always has some pumpkin ale in it, and the house is already decorated for autumn and Halloween. The kids are excited and given how awful 2020 has been, … Continue reading Autumnal
One of the absolute monoliths in the world of cult classics, Showgirls opened on this day in 1995. Over the last twenty-five years, I've thought a lot about why I love Showgirls so much and I've come to realize it's basically this: life is a big, epic, chaotic mess and the film masterfully, hilariously, and … Continue reading Happy 25th, Nomi
It’s 1994 and I’m working at a Waldenbooks in a mall in upstate New York. My manager Jim (can't remember his last name) is probably ten years older than me, so he'd been a teenager in the 1970s while I was just a baby and a toddler. I eat up his seventies stories, which he … Continue reading Interview with the Vampire
Google searches for Susie Diamond constantly ask me “Did you mean Suzie Diamond?” No, Google! I mean Susie! You know, Michelle Pfeiffer in the 1989 Steve Kloves masterpiece The Fabulous Baker Boys? That Susie Diamond. Susie is the role that should have won Michelle an Oscar. She won every other major award for her stunning, … Continue reading Susie—not Suzie—Diamond
Sissy Spacek deserves all the praise she gets for Carrie (1976), but it’s always bothered me how few people (beyond my fellow Carrie obsessives) seem to appreciate how beautiful and heartbreaking Amy Irving is as Sue Snell. As a kid I felt I was supposed to dislike Sue—she was popular! Boo! And was she trying … Continue reading The Ethereal Amy Irving
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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Cult, B-Movies, cheesy fun films to Film Noir to classics new to me.
Actresses of the fifties and sixties
Discussion of popular movies, obscure VHS faves, & genre films
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... observations from a lifetime of geekiness.
BATMAN COMIC REVIEWS AND ANALYSIS
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The home of film critics Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain who, for the best part of a decade, have parlayed their shared, lifelong obsession with horror, B-movies, and direct-to-video shenanigans into a writing career.
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