Author: VHS Tracking
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Charisma (1999)
1999 is often discussed as a great year in cinema, and key to that is because it was 1999. All the celebrated and successful films of that year tend to share themes about the destruction of the old, the beginning of the new. Or are vibrating on end of the century, millennium anxieties – fear… Read.
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Eyes Of The Spider (1998)
1997 was a busy year for Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Serpent’s Path and Eyes Of The Spider (1998) were two movies united by the same theme – revenge – and the same star – Sho Aikawa. They were low budget movies for the straight-to-video market and each apparently only had a two week shoot. In between, Kurosawa… Read.
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Trash Classics: Program 7
Screening from: August to December, 2024.Luna Leederville Fri 30 Aug: Barbarella (1968) with Perth Comics Arts Festival Fri 27 Sept: This Is Spinal Tap (1984) Fri 25 Oct: Inferno (1980) with Black Maria Film Collective Fri 29 Nov: Southland Tales (2006) with Mummy’s Plastic Fri 20 Dec: Dune (1984) Trash Classics? Let’s get real: these… Read.
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L.A. Bounty (1989)
I had to rewind Sybil Danning’s introduction scene in L.A. Bounty (1989) to enjoy it all over again. Rocking up to the middle of a nighttime kidnapping at a mansion – in a blue turtleneck, leather jacket and Mum-jeans – to cut some goons in half with a bulky super-shotgun. If you check out the… Read.
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Ator: The Fighting Eagle (1982)
I’ve seen Ator: The Fighting Eagle (1982) before, the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 version from the Netflix revival awhile back, but I decided to watch it without the commentary, inspired by it being on Tubi (naturally) and it being on this excellent Bong Hit/Van Mural list. Ator is a Conan The Barbarian knock-off by Italian… Read.
