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Silent...YET I LIVE!
I felt compelled to write something today because, let’s face it, it’s been an obscenely long time since I posted something of substance on 4DK. I don’t want to be like that store you give up on after...
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Inframan, Inframan, does whatever an infra can
Inframan is quite literally one of my favorite films of all time. That makes it all the more inexcusable that I have only just now reviewed it for Teleport City. Please read it, won't you? Only then...
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Just 3 Days, Part I (Ghana, 2015)
When we last checked in on Ghana’s Ninja Productions, they were providing us with as much spectacle as a single digit special effects budget could provide in 2011’s presciently named 2016, a film about...
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POP OFFENSIVE is TONIGHT!
You know that old song that goes "Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag?" Well, at Pop Offensive, we go that a few steps better. We pistol whip your troubles and throw them in the trunk of our car,...
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Just 3 Days, Part II (Ghana, 2015)
Is it ironic that it took me four days to watch Just 3 Days? The problem wasn’t just that the film in total is over two and a half hours long. It’s more that, once I got through Part I and started in...
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Offense and sensibility
Last week's episode of Pop Offensive is now available for streaming from the archives. Those who would like to subject this episode to more serious scrutiny can check out the full playlist over on the...
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Please give
You may have noticed the Patreon link that recently popped up on top of this blog's sidebar. This is a means by which those of you who choose to can contribute monetarily to the ongoing maintenance of...
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Listicles, testicles, wallet, watch.
XI think the reason people like listicles so much is that they give them something to argue about. I know this may be a shocking opinion, given the Internet's natural tendency toward friendship and...
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Nagina (India, 1986)
It's a sad fact that Western horror cinema has produced no female creature as enduring as India's Nagin. The closest it has come are Jacques Fournier’s The Cat People, which only merited one sequel,...
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Women of Whirlpool Island, aka Jotai Uzumaki-to (Japan, 1960)
After cutting his teeth on the Super Giant movies (that’s Starman to you, yankee), Teruo Ishii went on to direct a wide variety of genre pictures for Shintoho, including a series of film noirs. All of...
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Fantastic Fest goes Funky Bollywood!
As you may know, Fantastic Fest, which is just about a week away, is adopting a Bollywood theme this year. I am thrilled to announce that, in keeping with that theme, they will be holding a contest to...
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The Quick and the read
Of all the obscure music acts I've written about in my time, The Quick are probably the most undeservedly so. Existing at the historical crossroads of glam and punk, the Los Angeles quintet had a...
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POP OFFENSIVE returns TONIGHT!
Awaken from your slumbers, pop fans, for Jeff Heyman and I are returning to the airwaves with another episode of Pop Offensive this very evening starting at 7 pm Pacific time. If you live within...
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