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GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy/Busby Berkeley, '33). Ingerjay Ogersray! I read Val Lewton's raw pulp novel No Bed of Her Own a couple of weeks ago, and this has some of that same Depression desperation to it: bread lines & pandhandling for the down & out men, prostitution for the women. The foreground heart-of-gold digging comic plot isn't much, but Joan Blondell & that dog Warren William sell it. The production numbers are the business here, though -- We're in the Money, Petting in the Park, and the killer Remember My Forgotten Man (take that, Herbert Hoover!).

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Class of 1984/Stand by Me double bill. Olmos woulda kicked ass at Lincoln High.

EDIT: STAND & DELIVER, apparently.

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Blue Rita - fairly weird even by Franco standards. Amazing use of color though. Some nice looking ladies, some weird looking ladies, some dudes stuck in a pit with green paint on them, lots of clear and inflatable plastic furniture and a cool jazz soundtrack. I dig it.

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GANG IN BLUE (Mario & Melvin Van Peebles, 1996). Showtime GLASS SHIELD, shot in Toronto, pretty fine. Fast, hissably vicious, & under the cop story, feels as true as the text crawls claim: post-Rodney King, who could doubt it? Can't-fail racist cop scenario is only a little hurt by a clumsy ghostly KKK phantom cop revenge mythos. And what could have been Mario's show has him giving up some room for a strong turn from Josh Brolin as the rookie racist cop; the way it goes makes thematic sense, but the story seems a little off-center for it. Stephen Lang is great as Moose Tavola, the cop gangleader: hateable, believable, chock full o' nuts. Great working cast all around: J.T. Walsh, Cynda Williams, Sean McCann. Melvin cameos as Mario's rabbi, talks him down from the sweetback moment, and gets to say onscreen "I'm really proud of you, son". Bonus points: cops have their secret klubhouse upstairs of a titty bar. Mine was a good old Platinum Disc dvd, so it's probably Echo Bridge these days, and five bucks in your Walmart bin.

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THEY'RE WATCHING US is about a Spanish cop who's assigned to a missing person case and ends up discovering some unpleasant truths about what happens to some folks who go missing. He becomes obsessed with the case (he has a personal, tragic connection to the ordeal of a missing family member), and his life quickly unravels. Very low key in style and build up but it has some truly creepy moments, like when he's watching video of random street activity. The end, sad and haunting, stuck with me for a long time.

Thanks for hipping me to this. I really enjoyed it.

WRATH OF THE TITANS - Much better than I expected, yeah it's a CGI gangbang but it's fun and incredibly fast paced. And Rosamund Pike is stunning, wasn't really aware of her prior to this film but I am now a huge fan. She's got a classic beauty to her. The main villain is pretty cool too.

I first saw her in DOOM. She's something, alright. Plenty of Googling followed.

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Class of 1984/Stand by Me double bill. Olmos woulda kicked ass at Lincoln High.

Stand and Deliver you mean?

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Stand and Deliver you mean?

What a goofball, I can never keep those Stephen King movies straight. Thanks!

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It's ok, Baz. I get To Sir With Love and To Wong Foo Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar confused all the time.

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It isn't easy to tell two movies apart when they both took you from crayons to perfume?

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The Woman (Lucky McKee/Jack? Ketchum), a pretty "grim" fairy tale. I actually enjoyed the dvd extras more than the feature.

followed that with The Whistleblower (2010). War on women double feature.

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The Fields - a well done low budget indy horror film kinda-sorta inspired by the Manson murders but which goes in a fairly different direction than you'd expect it to. Not gory, no jump scares - loads of atmosphere and strong performances. Bonus points for a foul mouthed Cloris Leachman.

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Massacre in Dinosaur Valley: I will never understood why this one doesn't have more fans. It's a satisfying as hell cheese fest laden with gore and nudity. Sopkiw's best film in my eyes.

I agree it is a great film, but have you seen "Blastfighter"?

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Blastfighter is fun. Takes a while to get going but once it does it rocks. No idea why it isn't on DVD yet.

Watching The Mist: Good film. But I remain pretty meh about the creatures and the ultra religious lady. Something about giant insects doesn't do it for me, the religious lady came off as a trope to make the whole thing seem a little different than the usual Night of the Living Dead setup.

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Blastfighter is fun. Takes a while to get going but once it does it rocks. No idea why it isn't on DVD yet.

Watching The Mist: Good film. But I remain pretty meh about the creatures and the ultra religious lady. Something about giant insects doesn't do it for me, the religious lady came off as a trope to make the whole thing seem a little different than the usual Night of the Living Dead setup.

I am pretty sure the ultra religious lady was also in the Mist novella. But I haven't read that story since I was 13 or so.

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Blastfighter is fun. Takes a while to get going but once it does it rocks. No idea why it isn't on DVD yet.

Watching The Mist: Good film. But I remain pretty meh about the creatures and the ultra religious lady. Something about giant insects doesn't do it for me, the religious lady came off as a trope to make the whole thing seem a little different than the usual Night of the Living Dead setup.

I am pretty sure the ultra religious lady was also in the Mist novella. But I haven't read that story since I was 13 or so.