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The Singing Ringing Tree (East Germany, 1957)
The East German children’s film The Singing Ringing Tree might have slipped under the internet’s radar had it not been serialized by the BBC for its Tales of Europe Television series, whereupon it...
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An offense relived
Last week's Pop Offensive has now been archived for your streaming pleasure. Dig in!
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4DK = 10
When a blog gets to be ten years old, it is usually due to either perseverance or neglect. Given my last post bears a date that’s within the last two weeks, I guess I am to be congratulated for the...
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4DK at 10: Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye (Italy, 1973)
[FIRST POSTED FEBRUARY 8, 2008:Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye is a film I had not heard about until I found a DVD of it in the dollar bin in my neighborhood Walgreen's, whereupon it became the first...
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It's the FRIDAY'S BEST POP SONG EVER podcast! "Dancing With Myself"
Look, you either like "Dancing With Myself", or you're lying. Tell me you don't and you might as well be telling me that you never got "Mmbop" stuck in your head. Anyway, the fact that FBSE is covering...
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4DK at 10: Papi Gudia (India, 1996)
[Originally posted March 1st, 2008: Papi Gudia was one of the first Bollywood films I reviewed on 4DK, a garishly disco-fied remake of the American horror film Child's Play complete with a doll that...
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4DK at 10: King-ka Kayasit, aka Magic Lizard (Thailand, 1985)
[ORIGINALLY POSTED May 6TH, 2008:This review of Magic Lizard was part of a series of reviews I wrote of films by the controversial Thai director Sompote Saengduenchai. While I do not take credit for it...
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4DK at 10: Goldface, The Fantastic Superman (Spain/Italy, 1967)
[ORIGINALLY POSTED JULY 23rd, 2008:This was the first of a series of reviews titled Italian Superhero Roll Call.]Along with 3 Dev Adam, Goldface, the Fantastic Superman is a perfect example of the...
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4DK at 10: Wahan Ke Log (India, 1967)
[ORIGINALLY POSTED SEPTEMBER 9th, 2008]Wahan Ke Log, might have benefited from English subtitles, because the lack thereof made the more exposition-heavy middle section lag a bit. Then again, that...
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4DK at 10: Zimbo (India, 1958)
[ORIGINALLY POSTED DECEMBER, 21st, 2008:This review of the first Zimbo movie was not only a reader favorite, but also provided 4DK with its enduring mascot, Pedro the Ape Bomb]Homi Wadia's Zimbo is...
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4DK at 10: Haseena Atom Bomb (Pakistan, 1990)
[ORIGINALLY POSTED JUNE 3rd, 2009:This review of the notorious Pakistani sleaze-fest, Haseena Atom Bomb was, for several consecutive years, the most read review on 4DK. I love you people, but you are...
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It's the FRIDAY'S BEST POP SONG EVER Podcast! "Substitute"
"Substitute" by the South African all-woman band Clout was a number one hit in countries across the globe--but you've never heard of it, have you? Todd is here to make things right.
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LSD: Flesh of Devil, aka LSD: Inferno Per Poshi Dollari (Italy, 1967)
Given LSD: Flesh of Devil’s (sic) fervent anti-LSD rhetoric—“the most powerful hallucinating agent yet known” says one character, the effects of which on the human mind are “terrifying”—you’d hardly...
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It's the FRIDAY'S BEST POP SONG EVER Podcast! "Modern Kicks"
On this, the 17th episode of the FBPSE Podcast, I take a look at the tragically brief history of The Exploding Hearts, whose "Modern Kicks" is a four minute, distortion-soaked slice of pure power pop...
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El Aguila Descalza, aka The Barefoot Eagle (Mexico, 1971)
Though Christa Linder is forcefully stripped to her skivvies at one point, El Aguila Descalza is still somewhat less lowbrow than most Mexican genre parodies of its day. Whether that presages its...
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