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The Nerve Meter – Poison Pen (rock/pop, 2002)

The Nerve Meter – Poison Pen (rock/pop, 2002)

I'm going to try not to include too many albums for which no video is available, but this one is a favorite and deserves a mention. One night in the…
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Sonny Smith – Who’s The Monster… You or Me? (hip-hop, 2000)

Sonny Smith – Who’s The Monster… You or Me? (hip-hop, 2000)

An old GOAT (Girlfriend Onceupon A Time) who I dated for three weeks had this charming gem on cassette taped off a friend. Sonny Smith played around the Bay Area…
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Rotary Connection – Rotary Connection (psychedelia, 1967)

Rotary Connection – Rotary Connection (psychedelia, 1967)

Kind of an odd gem. This act was put together by Chess Records in 1967 as part of an effort to expand from their classic blues catalog into psychedelia, and…
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The Signal (2007)

The Signal (2007)

Compilation of three short tales, revolving around a broadcast signal driving people insane. I like this one a lot, very well done. (Note: there's another 2014 horror movie called "The…
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The Inside

The Inside

[originally reviewed on IMDB at https://www.imdb.com/review/rw3321049/?ref_=tturv_perm_8] I just got blown away by this movie. Yes, by conventional film standards, it sucks: almost no story, no narrative arc, almost no dialog…
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Gaia

Gaia

Wow, sometimes you stumble across an unexpected gem. The setup is a remote pair of forest rangers checking trail cams stumble across a pair of survivalists, initially promising to be…
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Pyewacket

Pyewacket

Another successful zero-budget Canadian horror outing of the kind that should, by all rights, have sucked, except that Canadians seems somehow good at making these little horror movies pretty effective.…
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Into The Dark “I’m Just Fucking With You”

Into The Dark “I’m Just Fucking With You”

Not a favorite of mine but worth an honorable mention. Pretty much nonstop fun for a uniformly bad movie, in thanks to a particularly hatable protagonist who you want to…
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Testament

Testament

Harrowing and timeless 1983 realist family drama of postnuclear survival. Among my faves of this narrow genre (that being realist postapocaliptic films that are worth watching), along with the equally…
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Mom And Dad

Mom And Dad

Somewhere in the great purgatory of "also-rans" and "very near misses", "Mom And Dad" surely occupies a place of honor. A somewhat spectacular role-reversal play on how kids become strangers…