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Lola la Traleira, aka Lola the Truck Driver (Mexico, 1985)
Every legend has a beginning, and for Rosa Gloria Chagoyan it was Lola the Truck Driver (aka Lola la Traleira), the Mexican box office hit that led the way to her becoming a rare female star in the...
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WEDNESDAY! Pop Offensive takes you back to the 70s (whether you like it or not)
To those who weren't alive in the 70s, it was a decade of kitsch. To those who were, it was a decade of kitsch, melancholy, boredom and confusion: Gas lines, the Nixon presidency, Vietnam, Cambodia,...
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An Offense from the past
Last Wednesday's Pop Offensive was dedicated to the sounds of 1970s top 40 radio, a little experiment in time travel so successful that all of our 21st century technology started to fail us. If not for...
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Help! Help! The Globolinks (West Germany, 1969)
Help! Help! The Globolinks may be a weird film, but it is also a weird film with a pedigree. Commissioned by the Hamburg State Opera, it’s a television film of a children’s opera written and directed...
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Name the fictional punk rock band
In honor of the upcoming release of my novel PLEASE DON'T BE WAITING FOR ME, I've been holding a little contest. The idea is that the person who comes up with the best old school punk rock band name...
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Podcast on Fire's Taiwan Noir episode #24: Master of the Guillotine. and...
On this latest episode, Kenny B and I discuss Master of the Flying Guillotine and Shaolin Invincibles, two low budget Taiwanese Kung Fu movies featuring oddball elements that you might think would...
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Novyy Gulliver, aka New Gulliver (Russia, 1935)
Director Aleksandr Ptushko’s Novyy Gulliver was Russian cinema’s first feature length film to combine live action and stop motion animation. Of course, Russia was a few years behind Hollywood in...
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PLEASE DON'T BE WAITING FOR ME is HERE!
I'm ecstatic to announce that, after a long series of hurdles that ended with a surprisingly generous proposal from the Sex Pistols' publishers, my first novel, Please Don't Be Waiting For Me is...
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Yes, you can get it on Kindle...
WARNING: Parts of my new novel, PLEASE DON'T BE WAITING FOR ME, are so shocking that it might be dangerous to read while driving, walking, operating heavy machinery, or, of course, texting. Needless to...
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WEDNESDAY! POP OFFENSIVE punks out!
On this week's Pop Offensive, Jeff and I will be joined by our old pal Matt Harvey to rock, reminisce and remember those punk rock days of yore--this, of course, in connection with the release of my...
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Punk Offensive?
I'm going to call Wednesday's all-punk episode of Pop Offensive an unqualified success. Jeff Heyman and I, along with our old friend Matt Harvey, had a great time reminiscing about the old days--police...
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Son of Ingagi (United States, 1940)
Son of Ingagi is one of approximately five hundred “Race” films made in the United States between 1915 and 1950. For those who don’t know, these were films with all African American casts that were...
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A great good place to start
I apologize for exposing you to the above image. It's harrowing, I know. But, you see, my book launch is this Wednesday, and I wanted to promote it with an image that would be memorable. And what's...
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