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An offense like no other
Wednesday's Pop Offensive featured Darla Hood rubbing elbows with Joan Jett, an unintentional edit of a classic Wire song, and a Czech cover of The Sweet's "Blockbuster" that was perhaps as weird as...
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Tonight! The 4DK Monthly Movie Shout Down lights one up with DEVIL'S DYNAMITE
For most, saying that a film is a spiritual sibling of Robo Vampire is far from a ringing endorsement. But for another rare breed of individual--say, the type who might participate in a 4DK Monthly...
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Speaking of language
I have never posted sponsored content on 4DK and have no plans to do so. Still, inspiration can come from some strange places. For example, the online translation startup whose representative contacted...
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Pop Offensive is tonight!
Over at Pop Offensive, Jeff Heyman and I are doubling down over the months of May and June--by which I in now way mean to imply that we are being sandwiched between two flash-fried slabs of rendered...
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Funky Bollywood event in SF next week
For those of you bay area residents who missed the gala Funky Bollywood launch party last month, or who simply wanted to relive it in all it's resplendence, I have good news. I have once again been...
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All offense, no apologies.
Pop Offensive, a place where Gallic songbird Francoise Hardy plays in the same sandbox with Teutonic foghorn Heino, the Sonics play at a Greek disco to a crowd of shimmying Bollywood beauties, and it's...
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C.I.D. Raju (India, 1971)
C.I.D. Raju confounded my efforts to understand it without subtitles by featuring a male cast that was, to a man, made up of dark haired men with mustaches, heavily painted eyebrows and powdered faces....
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Tonight in San Francisco: Funky Bollywood COMES ALIVE!
Here's hoping that all you Bary Area fans of 4DK and Funky Bollywood--not to mention all you globe hopping cinematic adventurers out there--will brave the stroller stampede on 24th Street to drop by my...
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Pop Offensive this Wednesday!
We're halfway through our two months of bi-weekly episodes over at Pop Offensive, with the next installment coming up this Wednesday. Do you like music with an international bent that is catchy,...
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Golden Boy in Beirut, aka Altin Çocuk Beyrut'ta (Turkey, 1967)
Back in March of 2010, when I reviewed the first Golden Boy film for Teleport City, I described it as stripping the James Bond film down to its barest elements. You wouldn't think that that would leave...
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If thy pop offend thee...
On this past Wednesday's Pop Offensive, Jeff Heyman and I once again presented our utopian vision of a world united by hummable melodies and catchy choruses, surveying the pop music output of countries...
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Tuesday: Just when you thought it was safe to come back to the Shout Down
The 4DK Monthly Movie Shout Down returns Tuesday with Cruel Jaws. If you've already pegged that as being a shitty Jaws rip-off, you're half right; The fact is that it is a shitty Jaws rip-off directed...
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This Saturday: Funky Bollywood comes to San Diego!
That's right, folks; it's time for me to take my show on the road, flacking the magical healing properties of my bookFunky Bollywood: The Wild World of 1970s Action Cinemafrom city to city until I get...
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Tonight! The 4DK Monthly Movie Shout Down chomps down on CRUEL JAWS.
As Nick Lowe said, sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind. That, of course, has nothing to do with Cruel Jaws, a flagrant Jaws rip-off that even director Bruno Mattei, director of Rats: Night of...
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Who Killed Captain Alex (Uganda, 2010)
Due to the amount of Internet buzz already surrounding Ugandan zero-budget action director Isaac Nabwana (aka Nabwana I.G.G.), I was tempted to avoid writing about him altogether. I eventually caved,...
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