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Representations of Pornography Part II: Bob Fosse's Star 80 (1983)

Mon, 9 Sep 2002 09:12:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author alex_isit - note

Here is presented the second installment in a trilogy of reviews in which the representation of the pornographic industry is charted in mainstream film from the 1970s to the 1990s.

2: Star 80 (1983)

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Representations of Pornography Part I: Paul Schrader's Hardcore (1979)

Mon, 19 Aug 2002 18:10:58 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alex_isit - note

Here follows a trilogy of reviews in which the representation of the pornographic industry is charted in mainstream film from the 1970s to the 1990s. Forgive, if you will, my indulgence, such a study, it is thought, may yield...

Peter Maris's Delirium; a totally uncool multipurpose movie.

Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:04:42 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author alex_isit - St. Louis, nighttime, the present, a car glides noiselessly through the streets toward the outskirts of the city. The streetlamps gradually thin out and the vehicle draws to a stop at the waterfront. Barely visible are two men who drag a corpse from...

Eww Ick Ptooey!! - Forced Entry starring Tanya Roberts

Wed, 22 May 2002 08:24:00 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author alex_isit - Sharing its title with an appropriately alarming hardcore feature, Jim Sotos’s 1975 effort, Forced Entry, is a dingy and dismal little film; it has little in common with its 1978 counterpart, the infamous, I Spit On Your Grave, though...

“Would you like some Gore with your Whore sir?” -

Tue, 14 May 2002 06:15:15 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author alex_isit -

Gore Whore is like the cinematic -or rather I should say videographic- equivalent of being caught masturbating; by your mum, your grandma, the village priest, a rather large contingent of the local parent teacher association, and every...

“It’s better to burn out than to fade away...”- Dennis Hopper’s Out of the Blue

Mon, 29 Apr 2002 17:23:16 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author alex_isit - ”I’ve never endorsed anything before, but if a masterpiece comes along, people should see it.”

Jack Nicholson, of his radio spot for Out of the Blue.

This low budget, Vancouver production was to feature Dennis Hopper as an...

Robert Hammer's Don't Answer the Phone!

Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:00:55 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author alex_isit - A stupid, puerile and intentionally objectionable trawl through the open sewer of downtown Hollywood, Don't Answer the Phone!, should you ever watch it, will insult your intelligence, integrity and any notion of common decency you may have...

"Hey Joe" John G. Avildsen’s Joe

Fri, 26 Apr 2002 09:48:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alex_isit - In 1970, six years before tackling Sylvester Stallone’s asinine, albeit spectacularly successful, script for Rocky, director John G. Avildsen was busy making a name for himself with this low-key yet marvelous gem. Though it came out with little...

Shame no one was trained to act for Daniel Vance's Trained to Kill U.S.A.

Mon, 15 Apr 2002 14:39:07 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author alex_isit - Outline:

Alternately known as The No Mercy Man, The Vietnam Soldier and the rather unwarrantedly poetic, Fire in the Wind, Trained to Kill U.S.A. is a 1975 release and part of a substantial canon of seventies...

Peter S. Traynor's Death Game

Tue, 9 Apr 2002 09:44:43 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author alex_isit - Variously known as The Seducers and Mr. Manning’s Weekend Peter S. Traynor’s Death Game is a 1977 production which would appear to seek (albeit very belatedly) to exploit public reaction to the Tate-LaBianca homicides of 1969. Or...

"You're garbage!" - Paul Morrissey's Trash, The Best Film Ever!

Mon, 1 Apr 2002 17:11:31 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alex_isit - The Best Film Ever?

Fooled you! Andy Warhol’s Trash is more a like a manifestation of middle class suburbia’s worst nightmare. The self-evident perversity of this inequation is what appealed to me in selecting this film for...

Is he crazy or something? - George A. Romero’s The Crazies

Wed, 27 Mar 2002 19:41:05 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alex_isit - Crazy

Did you ever get the feeling that the whole world has gone mad? On the basis of this film, George A. Romero -director of Night of the Living Dead and Creepshow among many others- clearly has. In this nailbitingly tense...

Yowser!! stop pulling my heartstrings... it smarts! - Sean Penn's The Pledge

Sun, 24 Mar 2002 13:42:40 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alex_isit - Right from the prefatory sequence, in which shots of an arid, windswept desert mix gently and with elegaic finesse into the expansive white plane of a frozen lake, Penn asserts the magnificence and imperturbable indifference of everchanging nature. This...

Why Bully isn’t kids and none the lesser for it - Larry Clark’s Bully

Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:01:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author alex_isit - Larry Clark’s second film since his incendiary and phenomenal debut, kids is something of a return to form. Focussing solely, once more, on the disaffected lives of the contemporary teenage milieu, Clark avoids the patronizing, cartoonish...

More Effective Than Secanol™ - Jeff Obrow and Stephen Carpenter's Dorm That Dripped Blood

Sun, 3 Mar 2002 17:55:59 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author alex_isit - Made by a group of UCLA students for a reported $90 000, Dorm That Dripped Blood is a regrettable, and totally forgettable, stalk-and-slash 'em vehicle that contributes almost nothing to the cycle. Save one or two barely redeeming sequences and...

Rejuvenating Medicine for the Weary Slasher Fan... Jean-Claude Lord's Visiting Hours

Fri, 1 Mar 2002 23:05:56 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alex_isit - The first "video-nasty" to have had the peculiar (and highly inconsistent) distinction of having been broadcast on British network television, 1981's Canadian feature, Visiting Hours is an adrenaline fuelled thrill-ride of suspense and intrigue...

Die of Disinterest.

Mon, 25 Feb 2002 22:49:31 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author alex_isit - Introduction

Coming on like a Peeping Tom for the straight-to-video generation, Die Watching, sadly, does Michael Powell’s late masterpiece a grave disservice on too many levels to number. This is a sleazy and morally...

"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose" - Quentin Masters' Thumb Tripping

Fri, 22 Feb 2002 01:11:31 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author alex_isit - From 1972 comes this episodic road movie about a pair of free-loving hippies hitchhiking North from Big Sur up the California coast. The sunny idealism of the opening scenes is displaced by a fractured and harrowing portrait of an embittered dystopic...

Suggest Products: Cannibal Holocaust and the apathy of the modern viewer

Sat, 16 Feb 2002 21:43:43 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author alex_isit - What is without doubt the deepest of perhaps that most loathsome of the exploitation mini-cycles, which proliferated during the 1970s, that of the ‘Cannibal’ movies, is Ruggero Deodato’s seminal Cannibal Holocaust. An artless and highly objectionable...

"I never knew he was bald." - Monsterous Write-Off

Sat, 16 Feb 2002 00:49:53 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author alex_isit - -"Do you remember Rodin?"

-"The artist?"

-"No, the monster."

As the blue moon rises on Jeff Lieberman's execrable 1978 outing Blue Sunshine you could be forgiven for thinking that you are in for a treat. The...

Don't play with matches.. and Don't Go In the House!

Sat, 9 Feb 2002 00:04:57 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author alex_isit - ’In a steel room built for revenge they die burning...in chains.’

aesthetic worth

The standard of acting here, make no mistake, is of the type normally seen in thirty second Paxil™ commercials. The...

Facial and Manicure Coming Right Up

Thu, 7 Feb 2002 18:06:09 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alex_isit - 1979. The most important year of my life: that of my birth. There was, for me, one other unique and miraculous event that year: the release of Alien, the only good film that Ridley Scott ever made -or, for that matter, the only good film that he is...

'Freedom: R.I.P.' - the day Law & Order went berserk!

Fri, 1 Feb 2002 10:55:01 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author alex_isit - The Northville Cemetery Massacre is one of those obscure titles that you just hardly ever hear about. Anywhere. At all. This is going to sound really stupid but I have made it one of video collection mission objectives to acquire every movie with the...

Wide Blue Repeaters - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring {AoCi}

Wed, 30 Jan 2002 21:08:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author alex_isit - The appreciation of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is somewhat overshadowed by prior knowledge of the trilogy’s already legendary eighteen-month shooting schedule in the magnificent wilds of New Zealand. And it is the...

”We’re wise out here man, we’re Streetwise...”

Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:10:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author alex_isit - "I love to fly. It's just you alone, peace and quiet with nothing around you but clear blue sky. No one to hassle you, no one to tell you where to go or what to do. The only bad thing about flying is having to come back down to the fucI{ing world..."...