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Adding crackle to the pop
This past Wednesday's Pop Offensive was our first on the FM dial. That's right, if you were looking for a reason to move to the Lake Merritt area of Oakland, CA, I can't think of a better one than that...
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Star Crash: accident report.
Regret missing last Tuesday's 4DK Monthly Movie Shout Down of Star Crash? Well, here's some good news: Thanks to the transcript linked below, you will be able to effectively HALT THE FLOW OF TIME and...
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Welcome to Cairowood
You know, I'm about a lot more than luring people into Bollywood's seductive embrace--though, of course, I am about that. Take, for example, my latest piece for Teleport City, in which I provide a...
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2016 Part 1 (Ghana, 2011)
In 1912, cartoonist Windsor McCay used the available technology to make Gertie the Dinosaur, a short film in which a live action McCay appeared to be interacting with a cartoon dinosaur. In 1945, using...
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2016 Part 2 (Ghana, 2011)
I approached 2016 Part 2 with a lot of excitement. Really. That’s because all of the highlights from the mind blowing 2016 trailer were in Part 1, which meant that Part 2 was mostly uncharted...
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Zan-e Khoon Asham, aka Female Vampire (Iran, 1967)
It is impossible to discuss Zan-e Khoon Asham without making at least passing reference to last year’s festival favorite A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. Both are Iranian films, one made in 1967 and...
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Ana Antar, aka I Am Antar (Lebanon/?, 1966)
During the 1960s, Lebanon rivaled Egypt as one of the biggest producers of popular cinema in the Middle East, matching it both in terms of output and technical acumen. At the time, the Lebanese film...
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Kung Fu Wonder Child (Taiwan, 1986)
I know. It’s unbelievable that, in seven years of writing for 4DK, I have until now failed to review Kung Fu Wonder Child. The fact is that it was such an obvious choice that writing about it began to...
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Tomorrow Night: Let the Pop Offensive Haunted House give you the creeps!
Let me make one thing clear. I don't dislike children; I dislike their parents. After all, kids don't ruin everything, their parents do. Take Halloween for example: Do you think that kids, if left to...
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Tonight! The POP OFFENSIVE HAUNTED HOUSE will eff you up!
Look, you know it and I know it: if you don't listen to the Pop Offensive Haunted House--streaming live from 9thfloorradio.com tonight at 7pm PT--all of your friends are going to call you a baby. And...
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Happy Halloween from 4DK and Pop Offensive
If you've listened to Pop Offensive more than once, you know that it tends to be pretty upbeat in tone. This past Thursday's episode, however, was something else entirely. It was our Halloween episode,...
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Next Tuesday! The 4Dk Monthly Movie Shout Down returns with METEOR!
Yes, it's true. The 4DK Monthly Movie Shout Down will be back next Tuesday and our feature for the evening will be Meteor. Now, you might be asking yourself what a film starring Sean Connery, Natalie...
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