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Celebrate Halloween the 4DK way!
Halloween movie lists have become a staple of the season. But one has to admit that there's a numbing amount of overlap between them. I mean, does one really need to cram that much Vincent Price into...
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Pop Offensive returns this Wednesday!
The various peoples of the world may not agree on everything, but one thing they all share is an inability to resist a head-bopping beat and a catchy chorus. That, at least, is the premise of POP...
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The best offense...
This last may have been the least offensive Pop Offensive ever, what with a narrowly avoided explanation of the term "Bunga" and our mealy-mouthed cultural sensitivity around the issue of Southeastern...
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This Tuesday! The 4DK Monthly Movie Shout Down cleans up after TURKISH SPY...
Now with Pop Offensive out of the way, the next monthly social media-based pseudo-event coming down the pike to send angry ripples throughout the internet is, of course, the 4DK Monthly Movie Shout...
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Tonight! The 4DK Monthly Movie Shout Down talks Turkish trash with CASUS...
Turkey, where the men are men, the women are armed, and the air is thick with a heady musk of testosterone and motorcycle exhaust. This is a nation that, throughout the 60s, created an action cinema...
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Smashed! Blocked!
Our tweet-along to Casus Kiran, aka Turkish Spy Smasher, this past Tuesday may not have been the most well attended of the Monthly Movie Shout Downs, but it was nonetheless a smashing success. Why?...
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Tokyo, here I come.
Because I am a blogger who likes to keep his readers aware of his movements, I want to let you all know that, starting tomorrow, I am off to Japan for a couple of weeks. Barring I get thrown in jail...
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Mondo Robo
With bulky man-in-suit robots throwing down against all variety of monsters to the accompaniment of a pep squad of AV girls in metallic knickers undulating to deafening JPop, the Robot Restaurant in...
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Gekko Kamen (Japan, 1958)
Depending as it does on formula, cult genre cinema tends to walk a tightrope between nagging predictability and cozy reliability. Gekko Kamen falls squarely on the latter side of that dichotomy,...
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Pop Offensive is TONIGHT!
On tonight's installment of Pop Offensive, Jeff and I will be sharing some of my musical finds from Japan, as well as playing our usual foot-stomping mix of retro-licious pop, dance, and film music...
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Go East, Old Nerd
I thought I would post a few more shots from my Japan trip just to show that it was about more than battling robots and AV starlets in metallic underwear--although there was that. As you might expect,...
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An offense in any language.
Last night's Pop Offensive may have been the most eclectic yet, featuring everything from Cantonese cowboy songs to reggae to metalized German beer hall chants. Along the way, we shared some of my...
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Funky Bollywood now available for pre-order
I am very pleased--hella pleased, to be exact--to announce the official release date for my book Funky Bollywood, which will be available in stores and online on Monday, March 16th. If that seems like...
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This Tuesday! The 4DK Monthly Movie Shout Down pussy-foots around FELIDAE
I'll be honest. While Felidae is certainly an oddity--it's a bleak and violent film noir with a cast of animated cats, after all--it nonetheless has many things to recommend it. In further honesty, I...
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