MONDO 70: A Wild World of Cinema

A randomly comprehensive survey of extraordinary movie experiences from the art house to the grindhouse, featuring the good, the bad, the ugly, but not the boring or the banal.

Sunday, October 21, 2018

ERREMENTARI (2017)

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T he Spanish affinity for traditional gothic horror extends to the Basque country, which gives us Paul Urkijo Alijo's grim fairy tale ...

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

FUTURE WORLD (2018)

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M y guess is that James Franco saw The Bad Batch one day last year and said, "Psssh! I can do better than that." For all I kn...

Sunday, October 14, 2018

Pre-Code Parade: FAST LIFE (1932)

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W illiam Haines had his career killed by scandal, but my impression is that he was one of the big silent stars whose personae simply didn...

Thursday, October 11, 2018

THE DEVIL AND FATHER AMORTH (2017)

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T he first thing that's hard to believe about William Friedkin's documentary is that more than forty years passed before the direc...

Saturday, October 6, 2018

SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY (2018)

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M any people drew conclusions about the Han Solo prequel once the intended auteurs, Miller and Lord of Lego Movie fame, were seen off by ...

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Wednesday, October 3, 2018

THE WEREWOLF AND THE YETI (La Maldicion de la Bestia, 1975)

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T he turning of the blowing of the leaves again turns my thoughts toward horror and monsters, and so it's time again to visit with Jac...

Sunday, September 23, 2018

ORBITER 9 (Órbita 9, 2017)

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F or an Anglophone moviegoer it's a novelty to see space exploration carried out in Spanish. This isn't some implausible chauvinis...

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