Clik here to view.
An Offense by any other name
Last Wednesday's Pop Offensive was the first of a series of episodes to not feature my usual co-host Jeff Heyman, who has joined the Foreign Legion to forget. This time, my guest co-host was my dear...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Seek the forbidden
Keith Allison, the dark overlord of Teleport City, has a new bastion in his ongoing quest to fill the internet to absolute bursting with "cinema, sin, and swinging style." It's called Mezzanotte, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Joe Caligula (France, 1966)
In its own muted, black and white and very French way, Joe Caligula screams its swinging 60s origins at you from its first frame onward. There are the plastic minis, the slim cut suits, the lively beat...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hot Summer (East Germany, 1968)
East Germany's DEFA Studios brought a brave face to the task of emulating whatever global cinematic trends were necessary to compete for their audience with popular films imported from the West. In...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Save on FUNKY BOLLYWOOD and make out like a bandit!
As part of their March blow out, FAB Press is offering my book Funky Bollywood for the low, low price of £6.00.That's about 7.50 U.S.--less than a third of the cover price (though keep in mind that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An offense for the whole family
If you are a long-time POP OFFENSIVE listener, you know that last week's episode got a little sticky. My co-host was David Smay, the co-author of Bubble Gum Music is the Naked Truth, and, for two...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fantomas Redux
My Teleport City review of Andre Hunebelle's 1966 fumetti adaptation Fantomas has been given a second life over at Mezzanotte. As you would expect from webmaster Keith Allison, Mezzanotte is a site...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pulgarcito (Mexico, 1958)
Given it is a companion to Roberto Rodriguez’s scarifying Little Red Riding Hood films and was directed by Rene Cardona, who would later give us Night of the Bloody Apes and Survive!, Pulgarcito is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
King of Snake (Taiwan, 1984)
We live in cynical times. So cynical, in fact, that even the more softhearted among you might have a hard time buying into King of Snake’s testament to the love that a giant mutant snake can feel for a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Shaolin Invincibles (Taiwan, 1978)
I’m sure this kind of thing happened all the time in the Taiwanese film industry of the 70s: A director would be putting the finishing touches on his perfectly respectable little martial arts film, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
WIth new eyes
My review of V. Shantaram's Do Ankhen Barah Haath("Two Eyes Twelve Hands"), which first appeared on the Lucha Diaries site, was one of the first long form film reviews I ever wrote. Now, apropos of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Offense lingers
This past Wednesday was the first time I had ever hosted Pop Offensive all by my lonesome. And I have to admit that I was nervous—as evidenced by the way in which I completely whiffed the opening. At...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Please don't be missing my new book
From almost the instant that Funky Bollywood was published, people have been asking me what my next book project would be. Would it be a survey of Indian action movies from the 80s? Or perhaps an...
View Article