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Something Like a Filmography: The Most Beautiful (1944)

Something Like a Filmography takes a (brief) look at the filmography of Akira Kurosawa. Twice a month, Chris and Jon share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and in terms of Kurosawa’s legacy and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE BOX: This portrait of female volunteer workers at an optics plant during World War II, shot on location at … Continue reading Something Like a Filmography: The Most Beautiful (1944)

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Something Like a Filmography: Sanshiro Sugata (1943)

Something Like a Filmography takes a (brief) look at the filmography of Akira Kurosawa. Twice a month, Chris and Jon share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and in terms of Kurosawa’s legacy and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE BOX: Kurosawa’s effortless debut is based on a novel by Tsuneo Tomita about the rivalry between judo and jujitsu. … Continue reading Something Like a Filmography: Sanshiro Sugata (1943)

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Hooptober X #9: The Exorcist: Believer

David Gordon Green’s Halloween trilogy will probably continue to divide fans of that franchise for years to come. It’s three films that took at big swing. For all their faults though, those three films at least attempted something. They’re three slasher films that at least felt like pure slasher films. No overt meta humor gets used or commentary on the genre as a whole. The … Continue reading Hooptober X #9: The Exorcist: Believer

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Hooptober X #8: It Lives Inside

It Lives Inside is the debut feature film of Bishal Dutta. This might be the first wide release Indian-American horror film. Instead of relying on the Christian and European based horror tropes, the movie introduces audiences to the mythology and mysticism of Hinduism. It’s an impressive and confident debut for a first time filmmaker. It has its flaws but those are outweighed enough by Dutta’s … Continue reading Hooptober X #8: It Lives Inside

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Hooptober X #7; No One Will Save You

No One Will Save You is an intriguing premise. A young woman isolated from society witnesses an alien invasion. She then has to fight off the invasion when the aliens possess everyone in town. Only writer/director Brian Duffield tells this story almost entirely with its visuals and little to no dialogue. It’s a bold stylistic choice. Unfortunately, by the end of the film it’s not … Continue reading Hooptober X #7; No One Will Save You

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Hooptober 10.0 – Strip Nude For Your Killer (1975)

Being Film #31 for Hooptober 2023

And so we come to end of the 10th annual Hooptober Marathon. And it had to end with a giallo, the mixed up genre I’ve been feverishly catching up on this year. The second I saw the title Strip Nude For Your Killer I knew I needed to see it: with a salacious title like that how could you not? By 1975 the genre was waning, and directors started blending in other genres (see Sergio Martino’s The Suspicious Death of a Minor, reviewed here) like police procedurals to give their films boost. Others, like Andrea Bianchi went the software porn route, and sadly, despite a great Edwin Fenech performance, it does this film no favors.

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