So here I am at the end of a significant era of my life. Basically the entirety of my adult life, to this point. When Cinema Sewer started, it was 24 years ago, and I was 23 years old. It was just another zine/minicomic - I had done dozens up to that point already - getting started in self-publishing in the D.I.Y zine heyday of the early 1990s, ( Read more... )

Street Hunter (1990) is one of those late 80s/early90s direct to video action movies that you didn't care that much about at the time, but when you return to them now, seem like incredible rarely-seen time capsules. Any cult film fan will tell you that the passage of time and nostalgia have a way of making movies like this far more enjoyable ( Read more... )

Skatetown USA (1979. Dir: William Levey) Here's one that totally bypassed dvd and just went right from VHS to its new blu-ray edition out this month! I often say that Roller Boogie (1979), Xanadu (1980), and Can't Stop The Music (1980) are the perfect 1970s roller disco trilogy because they were all made within a calendar year of each other, and ( Read more... )

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Here's a page that was good enough to make the cut for the brand new issue of Cinema Sewer (issue #30), but since I was one page over the limit and this was the only single page review in the issue, it sadly had to be the odd man out. Instead, you get to enjoy it here -- so it ain't all bad ( Read more... )

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It's a look at 1970s pornography through the eyes of a character who detests everything about it, but every person I know who loves classic porn, also loves Paul Schrader's HARDCORE. Best known for writing the screenplay for Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (another film that shares the lurid theme of exploring an unseen urban subculture), Paul had ( Read more... )

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