It’s another exciting week for new releases, as we’ve once again got a little something for everyone…from the cinematic swan song (for now) of a certain mutant superhero team to favorites by the Warner Archive Collection and Criterion Collection. Let’s…
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Remembering “Damn Yankees” Star Tab Hunter: 1931-2018
Some sad news to start the week with: Famed actor Arthur Andrew Kelm — better known as his professional name, Tab Hunter — has died at the age of 86 at his home in Santa Barbara, California. (He was just…
Read more →John Waters’ “Female Trouble” Gets a Divine New Special Edition from the Criterion Collection
John Waters‘ demented cult classic Female Trouble was always a film ahead of its time. Actually, come to think of it, it still is. Nevertheless, it’s time has in fact come as it is the focus of a lavish new…
Read more →The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Revisiting Cult Movies
With the coming remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, one wonders how today’s attitudes about sex and sexuality won’t completely kill all of the charm and fun that made the original great. In 1970s’ cult films, attitudes seemed to…
Read more →This Week In Film History, 03.04.12
March 10, 1910: D.W. Griffith launches the Hollywood film industry with In Old California, the first film to be made in the new municipality. March 5, 1919: Pioneering black producer/director Oscar Micheaux releases his first film, The Homesteader. March 5,…
Read more →This Week In Film History, 03.06.11
March 10, 1910: D.W. Griffith launches the Hollywood film industry with In Old California, the first film to be made in the new municipality. March 10, 1922: Hollywood hires former postmaster general Will H. Hays to oversee “moral and artistic…
Read more →Dear John: Why Aren’t Waters’ Pre-Pink Flamingos Films on DVD?
Here’s a funny thought: more than a few moviegoers–many of them, I’m guessing, under the age of 30–may only know cult filmmaker John Waters as one of the people behind that charming, upbeat musical from a few years ago, Hairspray. It’s even funnier…
Read more →Edith Massey: The Egg Lady Abides
Amid the taboo-shattering and polymorphously perverse chaos that is the John Waters universe, she was an oasis of…well, if not sanity, then certainly an off-kilter form of niceness. Few who have seen the director’s landmark 1972 “exercise in poor taste,” Pink Flamingos, …
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