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Only now does it occur to me... DANIELLE STEEL'S FAMILY ALBUM (1994)
Only now does it occur to me... to say a few words about the 1994 NBC miniseries DANIELLE STEEL'S FAMILY ALBUM. I must admit that I sought this out entirely to explore John Waters' role as "Vincent,"...
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Only now does it occur to me... KAGERO-ZA (1981)
Only now does it occur to me... that I have to say a few words in praise of KAGERO-ZA (1981), the second film in the Japanese director Seijun Suzuki's trilogy of Taishō-set, literary-supernatural...
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Only now does it occur to me... PHANTASM (1979)
Only now does it occur to me... I've written a little about PHANTASM (1979) a few times before. It's a surrealistic indie melancholy horror which owes more to Luis Buñuel and Jean Cocteau (and a...
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Only now does it occur to me... PHANTASM II: THE BALL IS BACK (1988)
Only now does it occur to me... is PHANTASM II (1988) good? I thought so, back when I saw it for the first time, about fifteen years ago.The budget is ten times larger (at $3 million) than PHANTASM's,...
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Only now does it occur to me... PHANTASM III: LORD OF THE DEAD (1994)
Only now does it occur to me... that PHANTASM III is one of the wildest collection of happenings and imagery and disparate tones to ever inhabit a motion picture... and that, somehow, against all odds,...
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Sean Gill's "Classic Florida Literature: On the Novelization of Porky's II:...
My latest essay, "Classic Florida Literature: On the Novelization of Porky's II: The Next Day"has been published online by Evergreen Review, a longstanding literary journal, founded in 1957, and known...
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Only now does it occur to me... SANTA WITH MUSCLES (1996)
Only now does it occur to me... I never thought I'd witness a Christmas-themed off-brand lightsaber duel between Ed Begley, Jr. and Hulk Hogan. And yet, this is indeed the final setpiece of SANTA...
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Sean Gill's "Join Hands" Anthologized by the Scottish Arts Trust
My short story "Join Hands," which won the the Third Prize of the 2023 Edinburgh Award for Flash Fiction (judged by Zoë Strachan and Louise Welsh), is featured in the Scottish Arts Trust's latest...
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Sean Gill's "The Marked Book" Anthologized by The Lascaux Review
My short story "The Marked Book," which first appeared in The Iowa Review and was a finalist for the 2022 Lascaux Prize in Flash Fiction, is newly anthologized in The Lascaux Review prize issue, Volume...
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"Dr. Bronner's or Dr. Strangelove?" in Slackjaw Magazine
In honor of the 60th Anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, I have a new humor piece up in Slackjaw Magazine.
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R.I.P., M. Emmet Walsh
I was saddened to learn of the death of perennial "irascible old man" character actor M. Emmet Walsh, maybe best known for BLOOD SIMPLE, but also BLADE RUNNER, STRAIGHT TIME, WINTER KILLS, WHITE...
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R.I.P., Lou Gossett, Jr.
Very sorry to hear that we lost Lou Gossett, Jr., who I've loved in everything from A RAISIN IN THE SUN to WATCHMEN. On this blog, I've had things to say about Gossett films like FIREWALKER, ENEMY...
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Sean Gill's "Selected Arcana from My Literary Tarot" in Electric Literature
My latest essay, "Selected Arcana from My Literary Tarot," featuring tarot interpretations of authors from James Baldwin to Judy Blume, has been published online by Electric Literature.
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Television Review: THE EARTH DAY SPECIAL (1990, Dwight Hemion, James Burrows,...
Dying Planets: 3.5 of 5.Running Time: 97 minutes.Notable Cast or Crew: Where to begin? We're talking everybody from Bette Midler to Will Smith, from Ice-T to E.T., from the cast of CHEERS to the cast...
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R.I.P., Roger Corman
Farewell at 98 to a legend of genre cinema, B-Movie mogul Roger Corman. On this site, I have opined at length about films he directed, like X: THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES or THE PREMATURE BURIAL, or...
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Only now does it occur to me... KUNG-FU MASTER (1988)
Only now does it occur to me... that I must tip my hat to noted cat lover and French New Wave scamp Agnes Varda for making the most accurate video game adaptation of all time. That she does it in a...
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Only now does it occur to me... HIRED TO KILL (1990)
Only now does it occur to me... that HIRED TO KILL is the only movie where female commandos are trained to impersonate runway models by Brian Thompson (usually a typecast heavy––COBRA, BUFFY THE...
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R.I.P., James Earl Jones
Farewell to James Earl Jones, whose booming, iconic voice and endless acting chops made STAR WARS a staple of my childhood, brought gravitas to films like CLAUDINE, THE MAN, BY DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT, THE...
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Only now does it occur to me... EXCESSIVE FORCE (1993)
Only now does it occur to me... that Thomas Ian Griffith––performer of THE KARATE KID III's notorious, coke-addled villain Terry Silver––is... an auteur!Yes, as they say in the action biz, he "pulled a...
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Only now does it occur to me... PHANTASM IV: OBLIVION (1998)
Only now does it occur to me... that by PHANTASM IV: OBLIVION, the saga has truly become the "UP" series of horror films. I'm referring to the famous run of Michael Apted documentaries which follow...
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Only now does it occur to me... MOTHER'S BOYS (1993)
Only now does it occur to me... that MOTHER'S BOYS (1993) deserves its place in the pantheon of scary-campy "diva gone mad" thrillers, a proud tradition stretching at least from 1964's STRAIT-JACKET to...
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Only now does it occur to me... FALLING IN LOVE (1984)
Only now does it occur to me... that I must say a few words about the romantic drama FALLING IN LOVE (1984), which, despite being generally forgotten today, seems to have maintained a small but fierce...
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