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4DK on Podcast on Fire
I'm proud to have been asked to co-host the latest episode of the Podcast on Fire Network's Taiwan Noir podcast. This one's not for the squeamish, as we're delving into a particularly ooky corner of...
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Az-Za’ir Ul’Gharib, aka Strange Visitor (Egypt?, 1975)
Love may have its pre-linguistic advantages, but, truly, nothing transcends the language barrier better than guilt and paranoia. Example: Az-Za’ir Ul’Gharib, which, in all its un-subtitled glory, could...
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Famous Monsters of Filmland goes on a Lucha rampage, and 4DK is there!
Back when I was 9 years old and I begged my mom for a subscription to Famous Monsters of Filmland, I had no idea that my writing would one day appear in its pages. Nor would it occur to me some 20 odd...
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666 (Beware the End is at Hand) (Nigeria, 2007)
As someone who’s recently been forced to confront his own mortality, I’ve had to face some uncomfortable questions. “What will the end look like”, is one of those that both all and none of us want...
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Great moments in white people: Bollywood edition PART DO!
Represent, white people!Dil aur DeewaarUpaasna Gora(courtesy Memsaabstory)Hare Rama Hare KrishnaInternational Crook(courtesy Memsaabstory)Hare Rama Hare Krishna
View ArticleFighting Femmes, Fiends and Fanatics, the return!
Fighting Femmes, Fiends and Fanatics, the web series produced by Steve Mayhem and co-hosted by yours truly, will soon be making a long overdue comeback, with new episodes to be posted beginning the...
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Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard (France, 1967)
That a blue-headed super criminal piloting a rocket launched from the tower of a gothic castle is something that cannot be presented without tongue in cheek is an attitude not exclusive to the...
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El Achrar, aka The Bad Guys (Egypt, 1970)
Like many of the most entertaining Egyptian pop films, Hossam El-Din Mostafa’s The Bad Guys takes time-tested genre elements recognizable to all classic film buffs and places them within a uniquely...
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Zakhmee (India, 1975)
Zakhmee proves a good example of how Bollywood’s strict moral code clangored against its mandate to provide its audience with thrills and glamor. The film’s protagonists, two sanctimonious paragons of...
View ArticleFighting Femmes, Fiends, and Fanatics Episode 12: Blue Demon contra Cerebros...
Here at long last is the promised new episode of Steve Mayhem's Fighting Femmes, Fiends, and Fanatics. This episode is hosted by some joker named Todd Stadtman and concerns an old favorite of mine,...
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GAAAA!
The Mysterious Order of the Skeleton Suit did a tweet-along to Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny. I really don't want to say much more about it, but, thanks to the efforts of The Cultural Gutter's Carol,...
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The Friends of 4DK: "Do You Hear the People Sing?" by Andrew Nahem
My fellow Drive-In Mobster Andrew Nahem is a boss on Twitter and co-creator of the Webby Award winning site Elevator Moods. For this edition of The Friends of 4DK, Andrew dug extra deep to bring us a...
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Country of Beauties, aka Island Warriors (Taiwan, 1981)
Communities of women -- be they alien inhabitants of all female planets, members of utopian cults, or amazons -- are a fixture of B movies, and such movies always follow the same rules. I think this is...
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