*contains spoilers Let me talk briefly about The Fringe Dwellers (1987) and now erased from the IMDb is the possible fact that Indigenous people walked out or turned their back on this movie at Cannes. It was the first movie which at least in its foreign soundtracks dealt with the ‘jinx’ of stigma which the…
Read more The Indigenous Insult and Exploitation in Charlie’s Country and others (Part Two)
*contains spoilers It’s ‘healing week’ according to NAIDOC if you know what that is! And to sample the white settlers in Hollywood’s Oklahoma (1955) where the natives are simply out of sight: “We know we belong to the land! … and the land we belong to is grand!” but as we know it is a…
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*contains spoilers It was in the wake of citizen Bernhard Goetz (1947-) shooting in ‘self-defence’ four teenage criminals on a subway in New York in December of 1984 which had him dubbed The Subway Vigilante – a scene which seems to have been totally inspired by a scene in the first movie – which led…
Read more The Cult of Personal Vengeance in the Death Wish Movies (Part Two)
*contains spoilers I’ll try not to get too heavy but injustice is a part of our everyday lives in terms of either your life being ruined by another person or a family member or loved one being murdered or raped by another person. There are those that forgive and but don’t forget. Those that forgive…
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*contains spoilers but not about Loki I can relate to that trickster Loki (2021) somehow. He survived despite being evil and I can relate to the fact that he thinks he’s smarter than he really is… I can also relate to the fact he’s been labelled genderfluid as I change all the time and will…
Read more The Embrace of Stigma in Loki’s Marvellous Genderfluid Universe
*contains spoilers “Ants communicate by chemicals,” according to an actual quote by Stanford University professor Deborah M. Gordon and this is reinforced by director Bert I Gordon’s (1922-) – yes Mr BIG himself – Empire of the Ants (1977) where once again we have a nuclear link, this time nuclear waste polluting the ocean and…
Read more The Cult and Atonement of The Ant Bully but not Them! (1954) Part Two
*contains spoilers Let’s turn to the nature of an organised society and how it is impossible and cumbersome on our corrupt level as human beings to manage one – whereas the humble ant waits to inherit the world from us as we poison nature and ourselves as the ant’s natural order proves to be more…
Read more The Cult and Atonement of The Ant Bully but not Them! (1954) Part One
*contains spoilers Female Trouble is not as funny nor as outrageous as Pink Flamingos or his other contemplation of ostracism and criminality Desperate Living (1977) but it still contains full frontal male nudity or that other visual sin, an aging and naked female body. The shock factor has made way for social commentary about the…
Read more The Filthy Genius of Director John Waters and THAT actress Divine (Part Two)
*contains spoilers And now for something completely different… Beyond the unisex toilet where whatever wants to go as well as being a part of or watching Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) while the rest go over the rainbow… We have the original midnight movie cult of director John Waters (1946-) and transvestite actress…
Read more The Filthy Genius of Director John Waters and THAT actress Divine (Part One)
*contains spoilers I’ve been going frequently to the cinema of late – I went twice last year – but this year in Australia I’ve already been a couple of dozen times. The results aren’t encouraging in terms of product or the number of patrons going during the week. The movies they show have been pretty…
Read more Is Cinema and Hollywood Dead? Long Live the 75-inch Smart TV!
