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George A. Romero's The Circus ("Tales from the Darkside" episode 3.1)

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2008-10-09 22:04:00 by aaron in More Than Meets The Mogwai
The Circus, the third and final episode to be scripted by George A. Romero for his syndicated anthology series Tales from the Darkside, debuted as the third season opener in September 1986. Directed by former Romero cinematographer Michael Gornick (CREEPSHOW II), its indisputably an honorary Romero work It stars Kevin OConnor (THE BRINKS JOB)...
 
Tags: romero, tales, hickey, hickey continues, stars kevin oconnor, oconnor, honorary romero, circus, william hickey
 
 
 
 
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Hold the McChicken

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2008-10-07 21:18:00 by aaron in More Than Meets The Mogwai
The above 1972 McDonald's ad defies every kind of logic. I found it placed in the front cover of some forgettable general housekeeping magazine earlier this summer at a garage sale. I couldn't not buy it I bet whoever the Canadian artist was thought he was really putting one over
 
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All Brave Blood Do Spill: Bob Dylans Cross the Green Mountain

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2008-10-02 23:31:00 by aaron in More Than Meets The Mogwai
It occurred to me today that Bob Dylans song for the 2003 sequel to GETTYSBURG , GODS AND GENERALS (Ronald F. Maxwell), may simultaneously be a rare glimpse and a natural transition of what his film scoring would have sounded like had he steadily kept up with it after his blissful recordings for Sam Peckinpahs PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID way...
 
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Sage Advice from Nicholas Ray / Weekly Film Reviews #3

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2008-09-25 12:27:00 by aaron in More Than Meets The Mogwai
...Movies" (University of California Press: 1993 The above book I re-read this week for the third time. I've never harbored any desire to ever act, but I'd strongly suspect this book would be essential if I did, particularly the 'In Class' chapters that are faithful transcriptions of Ray's work as film teacher at Harpur College in Binghamton,...
 
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Weekly Film Reviews #2

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2008-09-21 20:03:00 by aaron in More Than Meets The Mogwai
In which I review: BAGHEAD (Jay and Mark Duplass, 2008), BUBBLEGUM MUSIC IS THE NAKED TRUTH (Kier-La Janisse, 2005) and the abysmal BANGKOK DANGEROUS (Danny and Oxide Pang, 2008
 
Tags: abysmal bangkok dangerous, mark duplass, bubblegum music, naked truth, kier-la janisse, oxide pang, review, danny, baghead
 
 
 
 
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Weekly Film Reviews

2008-09-17 08:14:00 by aaron in More Than Meets The Mogwai
 
I'm now the weekly film critic for Winnipeg's "Uptown Magazine", which I'm extremely delighted and enthused about. I'll still be providing new content here, but as I just returned from vacation, links to the first few weeks of my reviews from the 'Peg's alternative source for arts, entertainment, and news will suffice for now Touching Me,...
 
Tags: weekly film critic, film richard fleischer, jazz singer, death race, uptown magazine, mister lonely, peter cattaneo, reviews, greg kohs
 
 
 
 
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On Jean Rollin's THE IRON ROSE + Three Other (non-Rollin) Titles

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2008-08-29 12:36:00 by aaron in More Than Meets The Mogwai
THE IRON ROSE [La Rose de fer] (Rollin, 1973 CHINESE TORTUE CHAMBER STORY (Bosco Lam, 1995 DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE'S ROCK 'N' ROLL MUSICAL (Andre Champagne, 2003 YOUR MOMMY KILLS ANIMALS! (Curt Johnson, 2007
 
Tags: mommy kills animals, bosco lam, roll musical, rollin, andre champagne, curt johnson, iron, fer, jekyll
 
 
 
 
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Trailers from Hell: John Landis on POINT BLANK (John Boorman, 1967)

2008-08-25 19:38:00 by aaron in More Than Meets The Mogwai
 
Director John Landis on Boorman's stylistic trendsetter, POINT BLANK, featuring the preeminent iconic performance from Lee Marvin The film Landis mentions as having shot in the same long corridors at LAX is, I believe, INTO THE NIGHT (1985), my personal favourite of his work. I've been writing an essay articulating just exactly why, but it's...
 
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2 x Lew Archer: HARPER (Jack Smight, 1966) / THE DROWNING POOL (Stuart Rosenberg, 1975)

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2008-08-15 13:19:00 by aaron in More Than Meets The Mogwai
Ross MacDonalds series of Lew Archer novels span almost three decades, from 1949 to 1976, but his wiseacre private eye wouldnt make it to the screen with that surname Paul Newman, brought to the attention of the property by producer Elliot Kastner (who would later fire up the Raymond Chandler-Robert Mitchum rehashes of FAREWELL, MY LOVELY and...
 
Tags: harper, newman, paul newman, water newman, seventies, seventies-era disaster flick, genuinely painful scene, kastner, producer elliot kastner