Reviews

When I was a kid, an elementary school classmate smuggled a pro wrestling magazine into the classroom. Among the pictures of bloody barbed wire matches was an article about the homelife of a masked wrestler. The photo featured the wrestler, his wife, their kid and a dachshund sitting in the

Aleksandr Ptushko might be the only legendary director to have three films appear on Mystery Science Theater 3000. But that’s not his fault that he was lumped in with Ed Wood and Coleman Francis when it comes to American viewers. He didn’t make cheap clunky indie films. Ptushko (1900 –

Dutch superstar Sylvia Kristel set the cinema on fire in 1974 when the sizzling Emmanuelle was released. The film had her going on an erotic journey in Thailand that was both seductive and repulsive. The movie was so popular, she made two sequels. They gained a second life when home

The first time I ever saw Drew Friedman’s art was inside Raw Magazine. The legendary post-modern comix had a wide variety of cartoonists, but his panels stuck to me because he was so hyper realistic in his drawings of celebrities. In this case a demented version of The Andy Griffith