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Tag Archives: Cult Film
Saturday Matinee: Another Day of Life
Another Day of Life Directed by Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow An animated documentary presenting a journalist’s poignant perspectives on the horrors of war. By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Source: Spirituality & Practice You must save something if you can. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Angola, animation, Another Day of Life, Cult Film, Damian Nenow, Documentary, Raúl de la Fuente, Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Saturday Matinee: Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes
Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2020) Review Director: Junta YamaguchiCast: Kazunari Tosa, Riko Fujitani, Gôta Ishida, Masashi Suwa, Yoshifumi Sakai, Haruki Nakagawa, Munenori Nagano, Takashi Sumita, Chikara Honda, Aki AsakuraRunning Time: 70 min. By Paul Bramhall Source: City on Fire … Continue reading
Saturday Matinee: Death Machine
THE DAILY DIG: DEATH MACHINE (1994) “DEATH MACHINE” HAS ALL THE WORKINGS TO BE A CULT SCI-FI HORROR FILM, RIPE FOR REDISCOVERY AND A PROPER US RELEASE FINALLY. By Bobby Lisse: Source: Morbidly Beautiful A weapons manufacturer tries to cover … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Dystopia, Film, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Brad Dourif, Cult Film, Cyberpunk, Death Machine, Dystopia, Horror, Science fiction, Stephen Norrington
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Saturday Matinee: My Name is Nobody
By Richard T. Jameson Source: Parallax View [Originally published in Movietone News 36, October 1974] Most people have been writing about My Name Is Nobody as though it were as unequivocally a Sergio Leone film as Once upon a Time in the West, Duck You Sucker, et al.; some reviewers … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Humor, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Cult Film, Ennio Morricone, Henry Fonda, Italian Cinema, My Name is Nobody, Sergio Leone, Spaghetti Western, Terence Hill, Tonino Valerii
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Saturday Matinee: Real Genius
By Roger Ebert Source: RogerEbert.com The movie involves the saga of Mitch (Gabe Jarret), a brilliant high school student whose Science Fair project has revised the theory of laser beam technology. He is personally recruited by Professor Hathaway (William Atherton), … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Humor, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged comedy, Cult Film, Gabe Jarret, Martha Coolidge, Real Genius, Val Kilmer
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Saturday Matinee: A Bittersweet Life
By George Karystianis Source: Film Mining 101 Kim Jee-woon’s career is a peculiar one. Filled with masterpieces from his native country (South Korea) and excluding a rather tame Hollywood debut (“The Last Stand” (2013)), he always manages to surprise through his … Continue reading
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Tagged A Bittersweer Life, Cult Film, gangster film, Jung Hwang Jung-min, Kim Jee-woon, Kim Yeol-cheol, Korean cinema, Lee Byung-hun, neo-noir, Shin Min-ah
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Saturday Matinee: One Eyed Jacks
One Eyed Jacks Hollywood Century, 1961: In which things start to get out of hand By Tim Brayton Source: Alternate Ending The one thing that can never be claimed of the 1961 Western One-Eyed Jacks is that it’s like other movies. Lumbering … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Neider, Cult Film, Karl Malden, Marlon Brando, One Eyed Jacks, Samuel Fuller, Western
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