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Can anyone recommend a good guide to Orson Welles’ radio stuff? Assuming War of the Worlds is your first stop, where to next?
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Writer/movie rat. EIC and Senior Film Critic, Boston Hassle. Film columnist, Cambridge Day. Member: BSFC, OFCS, BOFCA. 🍅-approved. He/him.
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Oscar Goff
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Can anyone recommend a good guide to Orson Welles’ radio stuff? Assuming War of the Worlds is your first stop, where to next?
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Semi-related: I know cinematic universes are played, but I’d love a Patty Hearst movie which brings back Robert Downey Jr. as Paul Avery and Nathan Lane as F. Lee Bailey.
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I wish they’d resurrect the series— a Daniels edition would be killer!
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TIL that Ione Skye (RIVER’S EDGE, SAY ANYTHING) is the daughter of folk singer Donovan, which explains her uncredited (but significant!) role in ZODIAC!
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Not coolin’ :(
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If you saw this in 2004 you knew you were in the dorm room of a cool person.
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Oh… Oh no…
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It’s going to be so great when KINDS OF KINDNESS drops on Hulu and we get a whole wave or reactions from normies clicking on the new Emma Stone movie.
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People being weird about Michael Mann on Twitter. Film at 11.
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(Review to come, natch.)
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It’s obviously not the performance everyone’s going to be talking about in LONGLEGS, but I do want to say I’m a fan of Alicia Witt’s Brad Dourif era.
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All genres.
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It will surprise no one to learn that I did this at prom.
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This goes double for ? and the Mysterians.
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How has no one made a feature length documentary about Lene Lovich yet?
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Bonus pick because that choice feels obvious:
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What’s the best episode of television you’ve ever watched?
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I was today years old when I learned that this logo at the beginning of old movies is for the National Recovery Administration, a component of FDR’s New Deal, and not some bizarre alliance between Hollywood and the firearm industry.
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Still haven’t gotten over this one.
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For the evening crowd! 🔪
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New column up on @cambridgeday.bsky.social! Big story this week is the HFA/Brattle Jean-Pierre Melville series, plus FRIGHT NIGHT, WATTSTAX, and Trailer Treats!
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Though not up to the inspired level of PEARL, MAXXXINE is still good, grisly fun, with a sly streak of commentary on the 2020s. Review is up at Boston Hassle! bostonhassle.com/review-maxxx...
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Today is a good day to revisit a certain 1996 alien invasion movie which encapsulates the true spirit of America.
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I love that the French title for JAWS translates to “THE TEETH OF THE SEA.”
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I don’t even mean this in a “There are WARS going on!” way— stupid bullshit is important and necessary— but it simply doesn’t rise to the level of, say, “I like turtles.”
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I’m going to say it: “Hawk Tuah” is not interesting enough to sustain two weeks of media coverage.
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New column up on @cambridgeday.bsky.social! Big story this week is the HFA/Brattle Jean-Pierre Melville series, plus FRIGHT NIGHT, WATTSTAX, and Trailer Treats!
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Today is a good day to revisit a certain 1996 alien invasion movie which encapsulates the true spirit of America.
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Highlights include: -An anti-drug presentation which slowly reveals itself to be Scientology propaganda -A fuzzy broadcast of a children’s karate class with a voice periodically mumbling a phone number over it -A terrifying homemade CG version of The Nutcracker with a lot of pelvic thrusting
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Related: I kept a blank tape on hand at all times in my 20s to capture the weird shit I’d find on public access late at night. I still have it somewhere— the cumulative effect is basically Videodrome.
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My local theaters only play 2-3 trailers per film, and you can always tell the people who show up 10 minutes late because they’re used to the AMC block.
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“I can’t understand you. You have a thing in your mouth.”
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It got a boutique rerelease from Vinegar Syndrome a couple years ago!
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Freddy. Tina. Chuck. Casey. Scuz. Spider. Suicide. Trash. 40 years gone. Never forget.
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Is it strange to anyone else that we have had, by my count, four different films about imaginary friends this year?
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RIP Robert Towne, writer of some of the best screenplays in movie history and star of Roger Corman’s CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED SEA.
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June views đź“˝
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What’s funny is that the second reboot season had, by my count, two great episodes, three terrible episodes, and five perfectly fine episodes. Proportionately this is about on par with the classic seasons, but it plays wonkier in a “prestige” format.
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Ditto X-Files— you need room to breathe to get something like “The Postmodern Prometheus.”
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It’s so funny that “Return to Innocence” by Enigma has a shredding guitar solo in the middle of it.
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Also true of Boston!
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This is what the streets of an ancient city haunted by elder gods look like.
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This is incredibly cool and Gahan was a genius, but there is absolutely no way Arkham’s streets are laid out in a tidy grid.
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Running a campaign is an excellent source of stress 🤞🤞🤞
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Anyway, this article is eleven years old.
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I know this joke format is kind of played, but Biden really and truly has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever right now.
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June views đź“˝
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I will always, always go to bat for this soundtrack.
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Frame from a non-musical movie with a great soundtrack:
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Extremely good year so far; compiling my year-end list is going to be BRUTAL.
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