By Steven Ronquillo EPISODE FOUR: JODOROWSKY – A JOURNEY INTO LAS PECULIAS DE PANICA (PART 1) Over the next five installments I will be writing about the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky and the impact they have had on the world. At times I may digress in order to discuss other … Continue reading
By Nate Bradford & Steven Ronquillo We pop culture. EPISODE EIGHT: INTRODUCING THE R-MASSIVE A.V. CLUB or FILMSTRIP-A-GO-GO We all remember the joy of the classroom filmstrip. For most of us, it meant the difference between squirming our way through a boring lecture and zoning out to some poorly acted … Continue reading
By Steven Ronquillo & Craig McNeely EPISODE THREE: A DREAM OF SLEAZE NOT TO BE or CRITERION’S ABORTED ECLIPSE LINE AND THE SION TOHO SET Sion Toho (meaning Second Toho) was a B-movie studio that took Toho’s name and just stuck “second” in front of it. They specialized in what … Continue reading
By Nate Bradford & Steven Ronquillo We pop culture. 1927-2011 EPISODE SEVEN: A TRIBUTE TO KEN RUSSELL (PART TWO) (See Part One) Ken Russell was a one-of-a-kind filmmaker whose movies, a heady blend of humor, horror, perversion, and social commentary, were always guaranteed to entertain, confound, and offend. Tonight we … Continue reading
By Nate Bradford & Steven Ronquillo We pop culture. EPISODE SIX: A TRIBUTE TO KEN RUSSELL (PART ONE) Ken Russell, who passed away on the 27th of November, was an amazing filmmaker and a complete madman, something for which all of us who called ourselves fans loved him dearly. I … Continue reading
