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  • Byron Mabe – Space Thing (1968)

    1961-1970Byron MabeExploitationSci-FiUSA

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    Visit the ‘Planet of the Rapes’ with Captain Mother and her sultry crew of sadistic lesbians in this campy ‘peek into the year 2069.

    A man is in bed reading Sci-Fi mags, and his wife seduces him. He then falls asleep, and the rest is his dream.
    He is from an alternate world, and disguises himself as an alien, then boards their ship, to keep them from attacking his planet.
    The captain is a woman, who has two lesbian encounters with her crew, and whips one of them for trying to have sex with our hero.
    All of the women are anxious to seduce our hero, as the other two men on the ship are not very exciting.
    Our hero forces a landing on an asteroid (actually the outskirts of Palmdale, California) and everyone runs around topless and has sex. He then blows up the alien ship in the worst special effects explosion.Read More »

  • Roy William Neill – Black Moon (1934)

    1931-1940HorrorRoy William NeillThrillerUSA

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    Plot Synopsis
    A white woman returns to the native island where she was raised with her young daughter and her husband’s secretary. In her youth, she was indoctrinated into the ways of voodoo and her returns sparks off a new wave of voodoo ritual and human sacrifices.

    Review from BlackHorrorMovies.com:

    In the 1930s and 1940s, it seems like nothing scared white America like being outnumbered by Negroes. An endless stream of African jungle adventure films came out exploiting that fear, as did a number of voodoo tales — Black Moon being one of the earliest. Unlike predecessor White Zombie and successor I Walked with a Zombie, Black Moon details a white woman’s encounter with voodoo without dragging in those precocious living dead. This well-made but obscure flick takes place on the fictional Caribbean isle of San Christopher, the birthplace of said white woman, Juanita Perez Lane (Dorothy Burgess).Read More »

  • Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Henri Roger – British Sounds (1970)

    USA1961-1970DocumentaryJean-Henri RogerJean-Luc GodardPolitics

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    Filmed in the UK in 1969, this documentary by Godard and the Dziga Vertov Group represents an analysis of production and the status of women in capitalist society and a speculation about class consciousness and the need for political organization. A group of men formed by trade unionists and employers debate on what measures would benefit their respective classes. At the same time, a group of young hippies tested several Beatles songs.Read More »

  • Emily Hagins – Pathogen (2006)

    2001-2010Emily HaginsHorrorUSA

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    Quote:
    A terrible (synthetically created) bacteria is accidentally released into the Austin community’s water supply, and the unsuspecting citizens ingest the bacteria. Which causes them to become zombies. It’s not a completely original idea, but Emily has some original ways of telling her zombie story…

    A lot of people at age twelve never finish anything they start, unless it’s at school and they have to do the work to get that all important letter grade. As far back at age 10, Austin, Texas native Emily Hagins put together a script about a toxin that gets into the water and starts to turn everyone into zombies. And not only did she write it, she also went out and made it at the age of twelve. The film then premiered to a sold out crowd at the Alamo Drafthouse. Meet Emily Hagins, a new face in the world of filmmaking.Read More »

  • Michael Curtiz – The Scarlet Hour (1956)

    USA1951-1960CrimeFilm NoirMichael Curtiz

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    Pauline ‘Paulie’ Nevins is cheating on her husband Ralph Nevins, a land developer, with his sales manager E.V. ‘Marsh’ Marshall. When Paulie and Marsh meet up for a secret rendez-vous in a lovers’ lane they manage to overhear three criminals planning a jewelry heist. They hatch a plan to rob the thieves and run away together but Ralph starts to get suspicious of them.Read More »

  • Pierre Rehov – Suicide Killers (2006)

    2001-2010DocumentaryPierre RehovPoliticsUSA

    Synopsis:
    Take a compelling look at the point where religious fanaticism gives way to murderous intent as politically-minded filmmaker Pierre Rehov explores the mind and motivations of the contemporary Middle Eastern suicide bomber. Though interviews with both the families of successful suicide bombers and would-be suicide bombers who attempts to achieve martyrdom were somehow thwarted, Rehov probes his subjects to get answers that are often as surprising as they are shocking.
    Jason Buchanan, All Movie GuideRead More »

  • Zal Batmanglij – The East (2013)

    2011-2020DramaUSAZal Batmanglij

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    An operative for an elite private intelligence firm finds her priorities changing dramatically after she is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations.Read More »

  • James Goldstone – Rollercoaster (1977)

    1971-1980DramaJames GoldstoneThrillerUSA

    Quote:
    Originally augmented with the Sensurround technique to simulate the thrills of its title, “Rollercoaster” spins a tale of one man holding thousands of lives at stake. A quiet man with a deep understanding of explosives, rollercoasters and electronics — and possibly a traumatic history in the Vietnam War — targets the patrons of an amusement park for his million-dollar extortion scheme. He informs federal agents and the owners of the park that he has planted a bomb and he demands $1,000,000. When they call his bluff, he detonates a device on a popular rollercoaster that sends cars and riders hurtling off the tracks. The authorities then call on the one man who can outsmart the bomber… and prevent any other losses.Read More »

  • Robert Altman – The Player (1992)

    USA1991-2000ComedyCultRobert Altman

    The Player is a 1992 satirical film directed by Robert Altman from a screenplay by Michael Tolkin based on his own novel of the same name. It is the story of Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins), a Hollywood studio executive who gets away with murdering a wannabe screenwriter who Mill believes is sending him death threats.Read More »

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