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Tonight! Cat around with the 4DK Monthly Movie Shout Down as we curl up to...
Oh, Don't get me started about cats. So adorable! Especially when they're single-handedly trying to solve a string of brutal ritualized serial killings... of cats! That happens, right?At least it does...
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Enough to give you paws.
Ugh. Sorry about that. What is it about cats in particular that inspires godawful punning on the part of those who you'd think would know better? Is it a contact catnip high? Purrrr-haps. God!Anyway,...
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San Francisco gets Wenged!
If you live in the Bay Area and don't wake tomorrow to find that you have been washed out to sea by the coming superstorm, you might want to head down to San Francisco's Roxie Theater. Taking place...
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The Fantasy of Deer Warrior (Taiwan, 1961)
While googling The Fantasy of Deer Warrior to see if I could find any information to augment that found on its very limited Hong Kong Movie Database page, I came across, right near the top of the...
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Podcast on Fire's Taiwan Noir Episode 16: Night Orchid and The Greatest Plot
On this latest episode of Taiwan Noir, Kenny B and I have a relaxed back and forth about two more colorful Taiwanese wuxia films: Night Orchid, a Ku Long adaptation with a screenplay by Ku Long...
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La Guerrera Vengadora (Mexico, 1988)
On a recent visit to downtown Los Angeles, I made a disturbing discovery. The Grand Central Market, which once offered the opportunity to clog your arteries with the borderline disgusting street food...
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Pop Offensive returns this Wednesday!
You know, there's no accounting for taste. Either you like awesome music or you don't... and suck. For those of you who do, there is Pop Offensive, which streams live this Wednesday at 7pm Pacific time...
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Cairo Station (Egypt, 1958)
My reviews of films from Egyptian cinema's golden age have a tendency to momentarily class things up here at 4DK. Cairo Station should prove no exception, as it is a recognized classic from one of...
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The offenses keep piling up
Last night's Pop Offensive, the first to be recorded entirely underwater (or so the above photo would have you believe), once again delivered an eclectic mix of danceable ditties from across the globe,...
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This Tuesday: The Kommissar's in town--and the 4DK Monthly Movie Shout Down...
The Kommissar X films stand out from the vast ocean of 1960s Eurospy films by just being a whole lot of goofy fun. Keith of Teleport City and I share an obsession with them that has resulted in us...
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Tonight! The 4DK Monthly Movie Shout Down goes spy high with KISS KISS, KILL...
There is nothing I could say about Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill, or the Kommissar X series of Eurospy films, that this poster doesn't say already. Seriously, you can literally smell the awesome. Or, well, some...
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We laughed, we loved, we kissed, we killed.
Last night's tweet-along to Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill ushered the 4DK Monthly Movie Shout Down crew into a whole new world; a world where a woman's hairĀ could only beĀ either purple or margarine yellow,...
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The Virgin Goddess (Argentina/South Africa, 1974)
Helmed by Dirk De Villiers, a South African director of prolific output but little renown outside his home country, The Virgin Goddess is proof that Argentinian sex bomb Isabel Sarli was more than just...
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