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.
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Brandon Streussnig
- Sep 9
- 7 min
Stallone In Chains: Lock Up (1989)
Brandon on the softer side of Stallone.
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Brandon Streussnig
- Aug 1
- 7 min
Crisis Actor: Rebecca Hall and RESURRECTION
Why Brandon thinks Rebecca Hall is the best working performer in horror (and cinema in general) these days.
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Brandon Streussnig
- Jul 1
- 6 min
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.
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Jacob Knight
- Jun 17
- 8 min
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.
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Jacob Knight
- Jun 15
- 8 min
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.
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Jacob Knight
- Jun 14
- 8 min
Ex-sentials: Gator (1976)
The first volume of Ex-sentials continues with Burt Reynolds' directorial debut: the granddaddy of bloated action spectacle, GATOR.
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Jacob Knight
- Jun 13
- 8 min
Ex-sentials: I Spit On Your Grave (1978)
Jacob launches a new mini-series covering the trash cinema classics every sleaze aficionado cannot miss.
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Brandon Streussnig
- May 20
- 8 min
His Own Worst Nemesis: The Films of Albert Pyun
Brandon smashes some brains with this love letter to the lo-fi genre madman.
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Brett Gallman
- May 13
- 10 min
Dial Up The Future: Jason X (2001)
Brett Gallman recalls how Jason X signaled the rise of Internet access to the latest body count shenanigans of our favorite masked maniacs.
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Jacob Knight
- Apr 11
- 7 min
Let Blockbusters Be Disreputable Again
In which Jacob ponders the question: has our mainstream entertainment become to safe to be, well, entertaining?
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Jacob Knight
- Mar 25
- 13 min
Slow West: The Creeping Outsider Terror of Ti West
Jacob goes long on the career of modern horror's most excitingly idiosyncratic auteur.
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Brett Gallman
- Mar 24
- 10 min
Long Live Goddamn Fucked Up Horror Pictures
Brett's back at SH and sounding the alarm for folks to just embrace horror movies being out of their fucking minds again.
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Brandon Streussnig
- Feb 11
- 6 min
Wrapped In Plastic: JCVD's Street Fighter
Brandon's back and telling you why you should embrace the goofy sincerity of notorious video game action epic, STREET FIGHTER.
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Anya Stanley
- Feb 4
- 6 min
Mondo Stuntmen: The Death Defying Maniacs of Jackass
Anya Stanley returns to Secret Handshake and digs into why Death is a omnipresent player in the JACKASS universe.
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Brandon Streussnig
- Jan 24
- 6 min
A Gunshot Behind the Woodshed: Lee Marvin's Dog Day
Brandon reveals how a minor late period work tells us all we need to know about Lee Marvin's legacy as a grizzled action star.
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Brett Gallman
- Jan 14
- 9 min
Meat For the Death Machine: Wes Craven's SCREAM 2
Brett Gallman breaks down what some consider to be the greatest metatextual slasher sequel of all time.
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Jacob Knight
- Jan 12
- 9 min
Psychic Porno Giallo: Patrick Still Lives (1980)
Jacob attempts to describe why this Italian rip off of an Australian blockbuster deserves Facemelter canonization.
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Brandon Streussnig
- Dec 24, 2021
- 7 min
Fuck You, Spaceman: The Ecstatic Action Cinema of Craig R. Baxley
Secret Handshake welcomes Brandon Streussnig into the fold, who in turn indoctrinates us into the action cinema cult of Craig Baxley.
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Brett Gallman
- Dec 10, 2021
- 8 min
Slime Mansion: The Cult Classic That Is The Kindred
Brett Gallman on why you should be seeking out Synapse's restoration of this highly entertaining monster mash.
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