I never knew that Kurt Vonnegut had two plays in his repertoire… but after reading Casey Sherman’s Helltown (see my … More
Tag: Violence
Radio Waves: A Post-Punk Novel by Shawna-Lee I. Perrin
Radio Waves is the independently-released first novel from Shawna-Lee I. Perrin. It tells the story of Viv Pierce, a college-radio … More
#637 In the Realm of the Senses (Ai no Corrida) (1976)
In The Realm of the Senses is one of those early films where the genre of pornography was still in its global … More
The Strawberry Statement by James Simon Kunen (and directed by Stuart Hagmann)
The Strawberry Statement was one of those surprise purchases from a library book sale. There was something about a slim … More
Static in the Jungle: “Ducks, Newburyport” by Lucy Ellmann
The sheer contemporariness of this book in terms of what it is about, how it is executed, and the meanderings … More
Three-Fifths by John Vercher
John Vercher’s Three-Fifths is a harrowing and captivating character study on the various ways race and identity interplay when one … More
#885 Man Bites Dog (C’est arrivé près de chez vous / It Happened in Your Neighborhood) (1992)
With a $33,000 budget (or as the creators in the Criterion interviews indicate, zero budget that they supplemented by asking … More
#73 Freaks (1932)
Loosely based on the short story Spurs by Tod Robbins and directed by the same mind that brought the definitive Dracula … More
#493 Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
A strange, sexy, violent film on the bizarre love and crime affair of Bonnie and Clyde brings Warren Beatty and … More
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