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Only now does it occur to me... THE MUPPET SHOW 1x01
Only now does it occur to me... that an obscure image in the first-ever produced episode of THE MUPPET SHOW (1x01, hosted by dancer Juliet Prowse in January 1976) seems to have inspired the poster...
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Only now does it occur to me... CRUISING
Only now does it occur to me... the four most unexpected bit parts in William Friedkin's heavy leather psychological thriller, CRUISING, are:#1. Joe Spinell, brilliant NYC character actor (THE...
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Coming soon: Good things come in 3's!
Spring is here, which for me means cold beers and hot pizzas and bad movies. I have a new themed cycle of reviews in the works, devoted entirely to the third films of a series. Most of these are...
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Film Review: ZOMBI 3 (1988, Claudio Fragasso, Lucio Fulci, & Bruno Mattei)
Stars: 3.5 of 5.Running Time: 95 minutes.Tag-line: "THE HAND RETURNS!"Notable Cast or Crew: Deran Serafian (actor in 10 TO MIDNIGHT, director of JCVD's DEATH WARRANT), Beatrice Ring (INTERZONE,...
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Only now does it occur to me... FROM DUSK TILL DAWN 3: THE HANGMAN'S DAUGHTER
Only now does it occur to me... that FROM DUSK TILL DAWN 3: THE HANGMAN'S DAUGHTER is the finest Ambrose Bierce fan fiction ever made.The second straight-to-video sequel to Tarantino and Rodriguez's...
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Only now does it occur to me... THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT
Only now does it occur to me... a few things. First, despite the absence of a "3" in the title (and to think it so easily could have been called "3 FAST 3 FURIOUS"), as the third film in the...
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Film Review: JAWS 3-D (1983, Joe Alves)
Stars: 2.5 of 5.Running Time: 99 minutes.Tag-line: "ALL NEW! The third dimension is terror. ALL NEW!"Notable Cast or Crew: Dennis Quaid (THE RIGHT STUFF, THE BIG EASY, ENEMY MINE), Bess Armstrong (MY...
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"Winners of the Yoknapatawpha County Spelling Bee" in McSweeney's Internet...
I have a new literary humor piece up at McSweeney's Internet Tendency called "Winners of the Yoknapatawpha County Spelling Bee, 1929-1940," and it's a riff on William Faulkner's imaginative compound...
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Film Review: NINJA III: THE DOMINATION (1984, Sam Firstenberg)
Stars: 5 of 5.Running Time: 92 minutes.Tag-line: "He's the ultimate killer, she's the perfect weapon."Notable Cast or Crew: Sho Kosugi (9 DEATHS OF THE NINJA, REVENGE OF THE NINJA, ENTER THE NINJA),...
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Only now does it occur to me... HOWLING III: THE MARSUPIALS
Only now does it occur to me... that I would ever know the glory that is "werewolf nuns."It's short-lived, but probably the standout image from HOWLING III: THE MARSUPIALS. (I always assumed that if I...
View ArticleOnly now does it occur to me... HACKERS
Only now does it occur to me... that Fisher Stevens once made the most 90s entrance possible.PS––the "Good Things Come in 3's" series is not yet done––I plan to send it out with a bang sometime next...
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RIP, James Horner
From discordant saxophone and wild steel drum action in COMMANDO to the quoting of Rachmaninoff (!) in THE WRATH OF KHAN; from the soaring heights of THE ROCKETEER to the labyrinthine depths of...
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Film Review: BLOODSPORT III (1996, Alan Mehrez)
Stars: 3.5 of 5.Running Time: 91 minutes.Tag-line: "Beyond honor there is a fight for justice and the truth..."Notable Cast or Crew: Daniel Bernhardt (BLOODSPORT 2, JOHN WICK), John Rhys-Davies...
View ArticleSean Gill's "Pistachio Butter,""Pulse," and "Dominus Vobiscum" in Gravel: A...
My latest (short) short stories are entitled "Pistachio Butter" (a tale of Bohemian food preparation), "Pulse" (a troubling reverie), and "Dominus Vobiscum" (a churchly inquiry) and they may be read...
View ArticleOnly now does it occur to me... THE PELICAN BRIEF
Only now does it occur to me... that you must repeatedly watch the following clip, apropos of nothing:As far as 90s John Grisham movies with all-star casts go, I don't rate this one as highly as THE...
View ArticleSean Gill's "The Quarry" in decomP magazinE
My latest short fiction, "The Quarry" (a story about the human costs of a coal mine), may be read and listened to online here in the July issue of decomP magazinE.
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Only now does it occur to me... JURASSIC WORLD
Only now does it occur to me... that the JURASSIC PARK series has steadily and perhaps deliberately evolved into the ROCKY series. Allow me to explain (spoilers will follow for all the JURASSIC PARK...
View ArticleOnly now does it occur to me... IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES
Only now does it occur to me... that before she appeared in the unintentionally comic period Western THE QUICK AND THE DEAD, Sharon Stone was in an intentionally comedic film-within-a-film musical...
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Film Review: BLOODSPORT 4: THE DARK KUMITE (1999, Elvis Restaino)
Stars: – of ∞ Dark Kumites.Running Time: 100 minutes.Tag-line: "Undercover on death row... the final contest is about to begin."Notable Cast or Crew: Daniel Bernhardt (BLOODSPORT 2, JOHN WICK), Ivan...
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RIP, Rowdy Roddy Piper
It saddens me to report that wrestling star, sci-fi legend and all-around bringer of joy Roddy Piper passed away on Friday. Despite usually playing a heavy in the wrestling ring (and in Cyndi Lauper's...
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