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A two year offense
Wednesday night, Jeff Heyman and I celebrated the end of Pop Offensive's second year on the air by surrounding ourselves with a chorus of angels--that is, if your religion allows for The Shaggs, The...
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A Devilish Homicide, aka A Bloodthirsty Killer (South Korea, 1965)
On paper, A Devilish Homicide (also known as A Bloodthirsty Killer and, in its home country, Salinma) tells what is more or less a boilerplate Asian ghost story. There is the vengeful spirit of a...
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Podcast of Fire's Taiwan Noir Episode #22: Dragon Inn
With this latest edition of Taiwan Noir, I use host Kenny B. as a kind of father confessor--a sympathetic ear to pay witness as I struggle with my feelings about King Hu's Dragon Inn, which is arguably...
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Three Supermen at the Olympic Games (Turkey, 1984)
Three Supermen at the Olympic Games looks like what happens when the universe itself rises up in defiance at the existence of yet another entry in the Three Supermen series. One cannot so much review...
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Wednesday! POP OFFENSIVE RETURNS!
We came very close to reaching "Peak Pop" with April's gala second anniversary episode of Pop Offensive. In its aftermath, Jeff and I had to take time off to regroup, with Jeff even fleeing the...
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Tune in, turn on, pop off.
How often have you wished that you could relive the night of June 15th, 2016--or, at least, a very specific portion of it? Well, now you can do that last thing only thanks to kgpc969.org, where you can...
View ArticleFriday's best pop song ever
Yes, I know it's Sunday. Hopefully this awesome and underappreciated tune will make up for the delay.
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The Charmer, aka Saher Al Nisa' (Egypt, 1958)
That Egypt suffered its own share of post-war anxieties is evidenced in part by the prevalence of film noir within the country’s cinematic output of the 50s and 60s. These films are remarkable not just...
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No walls, just Offense
If you were too busy being either enraptured or appalled by the Republican Convention to listen to Wednesday night's episode of Pop Offensive, I have good news: The episode, along with all the others,...
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