The Fifty Books Challenge, year two! This was a library request.


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All About Evil Premiere
(with Peaches Christ & Mink Stole!)
Saturday, August 28th, 8pm
The Patterson Theater
3134 Eastern Avenue
Baltimore, MD
21224
$15, $13 members

Midnight movie impresario Peaches Christ (Joshua Grannell), returns to his home state of Maryland to premiere his film directorial debut: All About Evil. This twisted black comedy ( Read more... )

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Why do I find this so transfixing? Is it the exquisite animation? The cringe-worthy racism, even for the era? The plucky, hopeful sentiment, characteristic of the Roosevelt years (particularly the early ones)? Capturing toy sentience by animation sixty years before Toy Story? W.C Fields as a wobble toy?

It was after seeing this clip on The AV Club's Our Favorite Film Scenes of The ’00s that I finally had to watch the movie (which I'd been planning to see anyway). Typical Pixar brilliance.

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EXQUISITE. Do not adjust your volume; it has no sound. Perhaps one of our talented vid makers can score it?

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“The Killer Inside Me” Promo (NSFW! And Major Trigger Warning!)
by gwen, 11-09-09 12:27pm

Cate M. emailed us about the promo for the movie “The Killer Inside Me,” saying,

The level of violence is at NSFW levels and quite ( Read more... )

What's that? A film based on a beloved book that doesn't look like it will anally rape my childhood memories?

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We shall see.

Maurice Sendak is co-producer of this film, so my hopes are high.

Such a beautiful, beautiful book. Many a night I lay on my bed trying to make my bedroom grow and grow until it became a forest.

So, you want to geek out about John Waters but don't know where to start? Let The AV Club be your guide. Courtesy The AV Club:

John Waters


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I'm aware that Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is an almost farcically sexist story (times or no) despite being written by a woman (history's forgotten pioneer, Anita Loos) and the movie version manages to be even more... squirm-worthy, but goddamn if the song-and-dance numbers are glorious ( Read more... )