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I liked Firefly and Serenity enough, had fun with them. Never got into Buffy at all. I tried a few times but it just never happened.

Last night... Tetsuya Nakashima's Confessions - awesome and really original take on the revenge movie. I dug this one a lot.

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Wendy and Lucy (2008) Kelly Reichardt
I really liked this film. Very understated indeed. Michelle Williams is fantastic. I'm looking forward to seeing Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff when it gets in my area at the end of May.

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Just finished watching the blu of CASINO JACK, and it was awesome. Based on the Jack Abramoff lobbyist scandal, filmed mostly in Hamilton, Ontario. Sniff, nostalgia.

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The New Barbarians - this movie is always awesome. I've probably watched it ten times or so and I always find something new and dumb to love about it. I think, pound for pound, this is my favorite Castellari movie. It also has the best man rape scene ever in it. And lots of plastic bubble things. Good movie to watch loaded, which is how I did it last night.

Which lead to ..... Mondo Bizarre - which I started watching after and which was pretty cool, but the $2.99 bottle of Charles Shaw Merlot kicked in shortly after and I fell asleep only to wake up around 1am with the menu looping and weird music playing.

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After an afternoon and evening of being under the influence, I had to bail on Paulsy and go to bed, leaving him to win a cribbage game by default. Which is the only way he can beat me, so he was excited. I watched a 30-year old porno (Delicious) and a Peter Fonda flick, Fighting Mad. Both will be reviewed.

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Bad Girls Dormitory - it didn't really take place in a dormitory and some of the girls weren't really very bad, though others were. Might actually feature worse fight choreography than The Guy From Harlem. Entertaining trash from Tim Kinciad, the man who gave us Riot on 42nd Street.

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Pit and the Pendulum (1961) and Tales of Terror (1962) -- is it just me or do I see a recurrent theme going on here? Out of town visitor, old mansion abided over by loons, premature burials and revenge from beyond the grave. It's been over twenty five years since I read any Poe, but surely the stories weren't all that thematically similar? Pit felt like a straight remake of House of Usher, albeit with Barbara Steele and a cool torture device and Tales felt like one story told three different ways (with Morella being the digest version of Usher and Pit). I must admit, The Black Cat with Peter Lorre was pretty damn funny, though...

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I haven't seen Tales of Terror in ages...

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I think I'm going to have to space the rest of them (the Corman-Poe films) out. Doing it all in one hit has started to highlight their similarities, as well as stock footage. ;)

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Just watched Dogtooth. I think enjoyed probably isn't the right word but it had me hooked throughout and with my poor attention span these days that's quite an achievement!

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Marlowe - I had fun with this 1969 movie starring James Garner, Carroll O'Connor with a small role from Bruce Lee (who has the weirdest death scene of his career in this movie). A decent PI movie, Garner is good in the lead, nicely shot, good soundtrack. Nothing super original but certainly a fun watch.

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"Revenge" A Love Story (2010) -- read some pretty bad reviews of this before I saw it, so I wasn't expecting much. But wouldn't you know it, it's actually pretty damn good. Wong Ching Po makes a very stylised serial killer-off kilter romance-crime thriller. Plus, for the perves, it's got Sora Aoi as an intellectually disabled schoolgirl (who gets gang-raped by a group of corrupt coppers). From the same production house who made Dream Home! I've done screen-grabs, so I'll try and get a review up on the blog shortly. ;)

Btw, check out how old Lau Wing (Liu Yung) is now...

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The Red Panther (1983) -- Yo! It's an eighties Hong Kong slasher about a crazed serial killer (who thinks they're a doctor) bumping off folks and performing post mortem surgery on them. Or, in one case, brain surgery on a live and conscious victim! But the police procedural side of the story is as dumb as a bag of hammers, and the main copper runs around trying to shag his missus when he's not whinging about his hemorrhoids (no, I'm not kidding). Gory in spots, but zero suspense and much of the dialogue consists of people shouting or screaming at one another, or bickering/squabbling at the top of their voices -- so while you're waiting for the grue, you've got a massive headache due to the persistent noise. Pass...

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Masque of the Red Death (1964) -- Haha! This was a complete change of pace from the other Poe adaptations. While Price was probably a bit old for Prospero (in his fifties here), I'd have to say this is perhaps one of his best roles of wretched villainy outside of Witchfinder General. A really cruel and sadistic characterisation if ever there was one. Loved the way too that Corman and his scriptwriters managed to convey so much through suggestion and clever wordplay (there's some really heavily perverse undercurrents going on throughout). And wouldn't you know it? Shot by Nicolas Roeg! Very good indeed. :)

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I'm with you on Masque, it definitely holds up.

Last night? Sledgehammer, and it was every bit as mind numblingly stupid and bad and awesome as I had hoped it would be.