Giallogy: Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll

A rare Spanish entry in the giallo genre, Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll (1973) begins with a drifter ex-con finding work at the remote mountain estate of three very different, yet equally eccentric sisters. Then the dead bodies start piling up around town. Beautiful, blue-eyed village women are being murdered, their eyeballs carved out … Continue reading Giallogy: Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll

Hot Shots of the Week: A Super Bowl Sea of Red

The San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs both wear red as their primary color. The Niners add gold accents, while the Chiefs use yellow as the secondary color. While the designated “road team” (San Francisco) will wear white tops, it will still be a Super Bowl awash in a sea of red. Consider … Continue reading Hot Shots of the Week: A Super Bowl Sea of Red

A Beautiful Purple Diamond

Wherein we celebrate sexy Susie Diamond’s pulchritudinous purple miniskirt. I happen to love purple. It’s regal, eye catching, and has a certain elegance that few colors can match. It seems the costume designer in The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) agrees with me, as Lisa Jensen dressed Michelle Pfeiffer as Susie Diamond in purple throughout many … Continue reading A Beautiful Purple Diamond

Lost and Found: Blue Jeans

As a glimpse into the freewheeling approach to sexual politics in 1970s Italy, Mario Imperioli’s Blue Jeans (1975) is eye opening, and not just because of stunningly sexy star Gloria Guida. The erotic-dramedy captures a moment in time, when the post-sixties sexual revolution collided head on—and groin first—with institutionally ingrained misogyny and old fashioned Italian … Continue reading Lost and Found: Blue Jeans