May 2009
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Paris is Burning (1990): Girl, I'll house you!
This movie is Faaabbuuullooouss! (You should be reading this sentence in Oprah’s deep sing song voice). But seriously, I love this film. Paris is Burning is a documentary about the golden age of drag balls in New York City. It was an underground scene in the African American and Latin gay community where “houses” (essentially a gay gang) came to walk, serve all different levels...
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BONUS: Teenage Mother (1967)
The voiceover of this trailer is kinda the best: “Teenage Muhtha, means nine months a’ trouble!” and “May very well be the most impawtant movie you will ever see!”
Suck it Juno.
The cutting room floor of Italian Stallion. Looking good.
BONUS: Italian Stallion (1970)
WOW, Sly Stallone’s X-Rated film (!!!)
Moments later this floppy dancing probably turned into an orgy. Adrian!
Tron (1982): Computer Love.
“Trapped inside an electronic arena, where love, and escape, do not compute!”
“Although the film was an initial failure, the arcade videogame based on it proved to be a tremendous hit and actually out-grossed the film.” -IMDB
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Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1974): Enough is...
R. Kelly once sang “Cuz when a womans fed up, It aint nothing you can do about it” In Friga’s case, fed up is a bit of an understatement. You see, she’s already mute, traumatized after a creepy old guy touched her when we was little. Then this sleazy pimp (with particularly ridiculous facial hair) kidnaps her from her bus stop and gets her hooked on heroin. Her only option...
BONUS: Crazy Mama (1975)
Starring Cloris Leachman.
RATED PG!
Le Notti di Cabiria (1957): Players only love you...
Ah, Men. Can’t live with em, can’t live without em; And as Biggie Smalls so eloquently once said “Mo money, mo problems”. The heroine of this film, an aging prostitute named Cabiria has big trouble in both of these areas. She can’t seem to keep her hands on a man, and when she bags one they’re only after her money. Sad Trombone. She ain’t the youngest or...
BONUS: The Big Doll House (1971)
“Boiling passions confined behind concrete walls”
RATED R!
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Jigoku (1960): I'm on a highway to Hell!
I’d love to give you a plot summary on this movie but it doesn’t really have one. I know from it’s wiki page that it’s about hell and that’s about it. There’s also a lot of umbrellas, gongs and delayed screaming. Hey, just look at the stills and shut up.
They Live (1988): I wear my sunglasses at night...
Do you believe in aliens? I do! And I’m not talking about little green men with big creepy eyes that probe you while your sleeping or cute ones with skinny fingers asking you to “Phone home” or ones that have glowy sex with Steve Guttenberg! I mean aliens that look like humans on the surface but are actually scary skeleton people underneath with terrible wigs. What makes them...
Badlands (1973): All I need in this life of sin,...
Nothing like a good ole American love story with a dash of killin to get you goin! This here’s the story of Holly (Sissy Spacek) and Kit (Martin Sheen) two kids in love about to be torn apart by Holly’s overprotective father. You see, he don’t like Kit much, being that he’s from the wrong side of tracks and all. Kit’s got a solution to that there problem, shooting the...
Buffalo '66 (1998): I'm on my way, Home Sweet...
Vincent Gallo’s Buffalo ‘66 is one of my favorite films. Despite Vincent Gallo’s ridiculous behavior (See: Selling his body and sperm and wishing cancer upon my beloved Roger Ebert) he’s a pretty talented director. Part auto-biographical vanity piece, part mood piece, it’s an impressive work of hipster independent cinema. The films muted palette and look are also...
Who Can Kill a Child? (1976): I believe the...
This film can be considered the ultimate form of birth control. Despite some very heavy handed opening credits, WCKAC is a little known horror film that brings something different to the evil children genre (see: Children of the Corn, The Omen, Village of the Damned, Newsies, Bebe’s Kids). It’s also a reminder that you may want to do a little research before booking that travel package...