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Whose shopping therapy?

A hyper-consumer society can only thrive with hyper consumers, rich and poor, not only ready to pull out the checkbook or credit card at the drop...
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A bad trip: Gaspar Noé's Enter the Void

The name of the life-altering dive bar in Gaspar Noé's latest film is The Void, but it's a wonder that the French director has...
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Worst case scenarios, part 1: Never mind the trolls, here are the ghosts as Best Worst Movie haunts

One man's trash is another man's Troll 2 (1990) posits thenew documentary Best Worst Movie, which tells the tale of the meteoric risein Z-grade...
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Grrr(l) power: No dead dudes in this Hausu

The Criterion Collection, the gold standard for home video release, has rescued 1977's Japanese sublime "horror" story Hausu from the...
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Reflections in a mondo eye: a lively discussion with a film of the decade director Damon Packard

Like a puzzle made up of pieces from other puzzles, the films of Damon Packard are a nightmare to try to figure out. His magnum opus, Reflections...
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Commencing countdown, engines on: An 'Alternative' Top Ten for 2009

Without much fuss by way of an intro, here's my Top Ten list for 2009: 10. Silent Light: Read my review here. 9. Tokyo!: Read my review here....
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Warrior of the wasteland: An interview with Inglorious Bastards director, Enzo G. Castellari

Despite having made over 40 films ranging from westerns to thrillers to science fiction, the recent attention on legendary Italian director Enzo G....
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Return to OZploitation: Director Mark Hartley's tale of being Not Quite Hollywood

Where is this land, whose journey takes us down under the rainbow, a road less traveled and littered with comatose killers, entrepreneurial...
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Can you dig it? The Warriors come out to play-i-aaay at the New Bev, 7/19-7/20

Playing at the New Beverly from Sunday, 7/19, to Monday, 7/20, is a double feature from one of America's pop culture cineastes, Walter Hill. Hill's...
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The strange vice of Mr. D.: The American Cinematheque talks Italian, 7/9-7/16

Chris D., Head Programmer of The American Cinematheque talks about the Italian Grindhouse Festival playing at the Egyptian Theatre from July 9-July...
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