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Category Archives: Saturday Matinee
Saturday Matinee: Harold and Maude
Review by Brian Eggert Source: Deep Focus Review Harold and Maude is the most positive expression of counter-culturalism to come out of Hal Ashby’s career. Unlike Ashby’s other pictures released during his zenith in the 1970s, it does not concentrate its … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Humor, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Bud Cort, comedy, Cult Film, Hal Ashby, Harold and Maude, Ruth Gordon
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Saturday Matinee: Joe Versus the Volcano
My Year Of Flops Case File # 40 Joe Versus The Volcano By Nathan Rabin Source: AV Club As my colleague Scott Tobias wrote in “Ten Notorious Flops Worth Seeing” John Patrick Shanley’s romantic fantasy Joe Versus The Volcano is … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Humor, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged comedy, Cult Film, Dan Hedaya, Joe Versus The Volcano, John Patrick Shanley, Meg Ryan, Ossie Davis, Tom Hanks
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Saturday Matinee: Anomalisa
Review by Sofie Monks Kaufman Source: Little White Lies Beauty and tragedy abound in Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson’s melancholic stop-motion treasure. Kurt Vonnegut’s 1963 novel ‘Cat’s Cradle’ is about the fictional religion of Bokonism. In it, he invented a … Continue reading
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Tagged animation, Anomalisa, Charlie Kaufman, Cult Film, David Thewlis, Duke Johnson, Jennifer Jason Leigh
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Saturday Matinee: Shock Treatment
Why Shock Treatment is an “equal” to The Rocky Horror Picture Show Was creator Richard O’Brien on the money when describing his other box office flop? By Aimee Knight Source: Little White Lies It’s a few years since Brad Majors … Continue reading
Saturday Matinee: Virtual Nightmare
“Virtual Nightmare” (2000) is an Australian television film adaptation of the 1955 science fiction short novel by Frederik Pohl. It was directed by Michael Pattinson and written by Dan Mazur and David Tausik (who two years earlier collaborated for a … Continue reading
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Tagged Cult Film, Dan Mazur, David Tausik, Dystopia, Frederik Pohl, Michael Pattinson, Philip K. Dick, PKD, Science fiction, Virtual Nightmare
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Saturday Matinee: Puffball Studio double feature
With films like Swipe, Shehr e Tabassum, Pakistan’s Puffball Studio depicts dystopias that feel all too real An app that mirrors mob justice. A dystopia where smiling is the only expression allowed. Pakistan’s Puffball Studio and its founder Arafat Mazhar … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Dystopia, Film, Saturday Matinee, Technocracy, Technology, Video
Tagged animation, Arafat Mazhar, Dystopia, Pakistani Cinema, Puffball Studio, sci-fi, Shehr e Tabassum, Short Film, Swipe, Technocracy
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Saturday Matinee: Visioneers
Review by Eric D. Snider Source: EricDSnider.com Most of the individual components of “Visioneers” are not new, nor are the film’s ideas particularly deep. Yet somehow the combination, written and directed by brothers Jared and Brandon Drake — in their … Continue reading
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Tagged Brandon Drake, Cult Film, Dystopia, Jared Drake, Judy Greer, Visioneers, Zach Galifianakis
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