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A Meeting in Palmyra (Syria/Lebanon, 1965)
When I pledged to diligently seek out more films like Ana Antar, I had no idea that I would find a film almost exactly like it within just a couple of weeks. Like Ana Antar, A Meeting in Palmyra is an...
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Tonight! The 4DK Monthly Movie Shout Down is on a collision course with METEOR!
It's 107 minutes long and it's heading straight for us! And, oh my god, it has Karl Malden's face! That's right, it's the 1979 AIP disaster epic Meteor and, as I see it, you only have two choices: you...
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Embrujada, aka Bewitched (Argentina, 1969)
Many men of a much coarser nature than me might look at Isabel Sarli’s body and declare it good for only one thing. And if you guessed “baby making”, then congratulations: you are Armando Bo, writer...
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Pop Offensive returns this Wednesday
We at Pop Offensive know that we hurt you. You thought you could count on us for a good time and then, right around Halloween, we got all dark and moody on you. What can we do to prove to you that...
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Pop Defensive
This past Wednesday's episode stands as testament to the indomitable spirit of Pop Offensive--proof that no malady, be it canine or technical,will keep us from delivering our message of hope to a...
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Ölüm Savasçisi, aka Death Warrior (Turkey, 1984)
Karl over at the fabulous Fist of B List blog has kindly invited me, along with the rest of the members of M.O.S.S., to participate in his “Ninjavember” blog roundtable. I enthusiastically agreed,...
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Rama Superman Indonesia (Indonesia, 1974)
According to some sources, Rama Superman Indonesia has been little seen outside of Indonesia due to the litigiousness of Kal-El Superman America’s copyright holders. Apparently, it is only for us, the...
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Have a fa la la la Funky Bollywood Christmas!
This Christmas you can give the Bollywood lover in your life a gift that will be a gift for me also. I'm talking, of course, about Funky Bollywood: The Wild World of 1970s Indian Action Cinema, a book...
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The Golden Claws of the Cat Girl, aka La Louve Solitaire (France/Italy, 1968)
The Golden Claws of the Cat Girl’s title gives it a lot to live up to, as does its superficial resemblance to Danger: Diabolik, which is perhaps the Platonic ideal of fun 1960s pop art Eurocrime films....
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We played. You heard. We offended.
From Manila to Oslo to Monaco to Hollywood, last night's Pop Offensive once again took listeners on an international tour of world pop music at its most catchy and hip shaking. If you missed it, fear...
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Podcast on Fire's Taiwan Noir Episode 20: Child of Peach
This latest is the twentieth episode of Taiwan Noir and my twelfth as co-host. It is also the first in a series of episodes in which we will be addressing the mind bending Peach Kid films and their...
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4DK's Year in Review
Any hypothetical person who tried to keep track of all of this blog's various offshoots and adjunct projects could be forgiven for suffering a kind of 4DK fatigue. That is why I have decided to give...
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