Category: Parody

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  Dead Pigeon On Beethoven Street (1972)

  May 14, 2021

  1970s, Crime, Eurocrime, German Cinema, Mystery, Noir, Parody, Satire, TV Movie

  I always loved the use of Can’s ‘Vitamin C’ in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice, but you know who used it first in a private eye flick way back in the 1970s? Samuel Fuller did, shooting an episode of a German crime TV anthology in West Germany (called Tartot) and spinning that into his own… Read.

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  The Doom Generation (1995)

  July 30, 2020

  1990s, Arthouse Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Independent Film, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, Music, Parody, Punk, Road Movie, Satire, Teen Movies, Thriller

  I remember The Doom Generation (1995) was released into cinemas when I was a teenager, as a hip US indie – maybe a bit on the back of Pulp Fiction and the similarity of Rose McGowan’s Louise Brooks bob/overall look to Uma Thurman. I also recall Roger Ebert – whose reviews I read back then… Read.

• Get Crazy (1983)

  September 25, 2019

  1980s, Comedy, Music, New Wave, Parody, Punk

  I’ve always wanted to see Get Crazy (1983) after hearing that Malcolm McDowell plays a Mick Jagger parody named Reggie Wanker. Someone put it all up onto YouTube and it’s a live action rock n roll cartoon (from Allan Arkush, director of Rock n Roll High School) that makes fun of hippies, rock, punk, new… Read.