The glass bottom boat of the cultural press
The long-awaited return of Marshall Presnell’s design musings! He’s got a love letter for Boeing, a need to find out what Dasani execs are smoking (and how he can get some), and he’s come to praise the prez not bury…. wait, he wants to do both.
Right-Wing flacks disguise their agenda as celebrity gossip. Ben Varkentine feels the need for a shower.
Could the real truth behind the terrorist attacks of 9/11 be even more sinister than “Bush knew”? James Mann seeks the Forbidden Truth in the new book by Jean-Charles Brisard & Gullaume Dasquie.
Stupid, white and proud of it, Michael Moore looks at the state of our nation, and it ain’t pretty. James Mann takes the IQ test.
Isaac Airborne runs down the simply stellar crop of candidates for the 2000 Presidential election - Freemasons all!
This week, cuddly curmudgeon Christopher Long finds himself feeling even older as he hobbles through a Florida flea market in pursuit of vinyl copies of the four infamous KISS solo albums — just in time to commemorate the set’s milestone 45th anniversary.
Starting with small-time jobs, two gangsters take over all the crime in Marseilles in this well-paced and entertaining French film. Carl F. Gauze reviews the freshly released Arrow Video Blu-ray edition of Borsalino (1970).
Aaron Tanner delivers 400 pages of visual delights from the ever-enigmatic band, The Residents, in The Residents Visual History Book: A Sight for Sore Eyes, Vol. 2.
Two teenage boys build a sexy computer girlfriend with an 8-bit computer… you know the story. Carl F. Gauze reviews Weird Science (1985), in a new 4K UHD Blu-ray release from Arrow Films.
Cauldron Films’ new UHD/Blu-ray release of Lucio Fulci’s City of the Living Dead (1980) preserves one of the best Italian horror films, according to Phil Bailey.
Marleen Gorris’s first theatrical feature is a potent feminist look at the easily disposable lives of sex workers in Amsterdam. Phil Bailey reviews Broken Mirrors.
Late bloomer Tony Bowman spins a tale of past decades with a Jimmy Buffett soundtrack.
