Well, I must confess, double-platinum Grammy winning pop isn’t typically the type of thing I consider edgy, relevant, subversive, or underground enough to review, but something about young Ms. Elly Jackson has severely captured my interest. This red-haired androgynous shining star of electro-pop has drawn me into her lovesick moody … Continue reading
A man on a hunting expedition finds the last of a cannibalistic, cave-dwelling race. That’s the set up for Lucky Mckee and Jack Ketchum’s subversive little movie, The Woman. The set up is simple, but the payoff is unlike anything you would expect. This film has been called misogynistic and … 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
This is a gritty, sleazy film featuring George C. Scott as Jake VanDorn, a religious and naive midwesterner who has to dance with the devil in order to save his teen daughter from the clutches of the West Coast adult-entertainment industry. This is a pretty strong movie, even by today’s … 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
