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Scott Adams travelled all the way to Chicago to scope out the veteran indie label’s birthday. And with Big Black , Scratch Acid and the Didjits , amongst other label mainstays, reforming just for the event, there was no way he would leave disappointed.
Event Review by J. Tritten
Five years have passed since the release of the The Tree House, the remarkable hybrid documentary film by director Trương Minh Quý. Việt and Nam is Trương’s first fiction feature, and with about a week before it screens at AFI Fest in Los Angeles, Lily and Generoso had an in-depth discussion with Trương about his ethereal and complex film.
Judy Craddock has a pulled pork sandwich after Colby Acuff’s set, not missing a beat of Midland’s wild west tour stop. Grand Junction, Colorado, gets “lucky sometimes.”
The granddaddy of old dark house mysteries, The Bat (1926) creeps onto Blu-ray from Undercrank Productions.
The Shadow Boxing, a neglected part of the Chinese Hopping Vampire cycle, returns on a spooky Blu-ray from 88 Films.