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Ex-sentials: Used Cars (1980)
Robert Zemeckis' madcap comedy is a smash 'em up anomaly in a storied filmography.
Jacob Knight
Dec 29, 20258 min read
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Ex-sentials: Polk County Pot Plane (1977)
Truth is stranger than fiction in this Hixploitation all-timer.
Jacob Knight
Dec 28, 20258 min read
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Ex-sentials: Truck Turner (1974)
Our ongoing series on grindhouse classics returns with arguably the best Blaxploitation movie ever made.
Jacob Knight
Dec 27, 20257 min read
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Head Canon: Stephen King's Graveyard Shift (1990)
A second-rate Stephen King adaptation is still more entertaining than most movies.
Jacob Knight
Dec 14, 20256 min read
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Head Canon: 976-Evil (1988)
Dial D for Demon on this week's Head Canon, with one of the best NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET knock-offs.
Jacob Knight
Dec 4, 20256 min read
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Head Canon: Fighting Back (1982)
The third installment of Head Canon heads to Philly for the bonkers vigilante thriller, FIGHTING BACK.
Jacob Knight
Nov 24, 20256 min read
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Head Canon: Redneck Miller (1976)
The second installment in Head Canon is the ultra rare North Carolina Hixploitation sex comedy, Redneck Miller.
Jacob Knight
Nov 17, 20256 min read
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Head Canon: Lifeguard (1976)
For Jacob's first edition in his new column, Head Canon, he explores Sam Elliott's late stage coming of age minor masterpiece, LIFEGUARD.
Jacob Knight
Nov 10, 20257 min read
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It's Not Just Horror: Stephen King's Haunted Hamlets
Marten takes us on a guided tour though Stephen King's favorite towns, connecting his fiction to our nostalgic reality.
Marten Carlson
Jan 27, 20235 min read
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Hell Is For Heroes: Jean-Claude Van Damme in JCVD
Brandon looks back on that time Van Damme was allowed to truly express his own artistic pain (while still kicking a bunch of ass).
Brandon Streussnig
Dec 14, 20229 min read
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Super Anti-Hero: Accident Man II
Brandon explains how the small scale Scott Adkins superhero sequel delivers the brutal fisticuffs 2022 desperately needed.
Brandon Streussnig
Nov 3, 20226 min read
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Dirtbag Nihilism and Crime Scene Donuts: Christian Gudegast's DEN OF THIEVES
Brandon interrogates Big Nick and finds him to be even scummier than we originally thought.
Brandon Streussnig
Oct 4, 20227 min read
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Stallone In Chains: Lock Up (1989)
Brandon on the softer side of Stallone.
Brandon Streussnig
Sep 9, 20227 min read
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Crisis Actor: Rebecca Hall and RESURRECTION
Why Brandon thinks Rebecca Hall is the best working performer in horror (and cinema in general) these days.
Brandon Streussnig
Aug 1, 20227 min read
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The Act of Seeing: Nicolas Winding Refn's ONLY GOD FORGIVES
Brandon's back, talking about the sinful, seductive pleasures of Nicolas Winding Refn's gruesome, reviled follow up to DRIVE.
Brandon Streussnig
Jul 1, 20226 min read
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Ex-sentials: The Hired Hand (1971)
The final installment in this first volume of Ex-sentials, Jacob chronicles the languid beauty of Peter Fonda's stellar acid Western.
Jacob Knight
Jun 17, 20228 min read
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Ex-sentials: Rome, Armed to the Teeth (1976)
The third installment in this mini-series of exploitation essentials zeroes in on Umberto Lenzi's Italocrime masterwork of fascist violence.
Jacob Knight
Jun 15, 20228 min read
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Ex-sentials: Gator (1976)
The first volume of Ex-sentials continues with Burt Reynolds' directorial debut: the granddaddy of bloated action spectacle, GATOR.
Jacob Knight
Jun 14, 20228 min read
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Ex-sentials: I Spit On Your Grave (1978)
Jacob launches a new mini-series covering the trash cinema classics every sleaze aficionado cannot miss.
Jacob Knight
Jun 13, 20228 min read
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His Own Worst Nemesis: The Films of Albert Pyun
Brandon smashes some brains with this love letter to the lo-fi genre madman.
Brandon Streussnig
May 20, 20228 min read
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