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Reviews

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  Zabriskie Point 1970

  

  Bilge Ebiri ★★★★ 2

  At the end, when the house exploded, a lady in back exclaimed, “What the hell just happened?” This movie is still one of the great WTFs out there, and seeing…

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  The Pledge 1981

  

  Steve Carlson ★★ 1

  look at my corpse / my corpse is amazing / give it a lick / mmm, it tastes just like pagan!

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  Challenge of the Masters 1976

  

  Steve Carlson ★★★½

  I don't have a lot of hard fast rules about cinema, but one of the few rules I do abide by is that any film that features Gordon Liu wielding…

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  One-Armed Boxer 1972

  

  Jacob Knight ★★★★

  Honestly prefer this to THE CHINESE BOXER because the first forty or so minutes are a non-stop barrage of kung fu and stolen music cues before a vampire from Okinawa…

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  The Big Cat 1949

  

  Steve Carlson ★★★½ 3

  kitty go RAWR

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  The Princess 2022

  

  Steve Carlson ★★★½

  RAIDPUNZEL

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  Crimson Bat, the Blind Swordswoman 1969

  

  Jacob Knight ★★★★ 1

  Ex-Fest Film #5: “Underseen martial arts drama.”

  Lush, stagey, often gorgeous female-fronted answer to the ZATOICHI movies that’s melodramatically gory and brimming with emotional texture. Sitting next to Simon Abrams…

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  Narcotics: The Inside Story

  

  Steve Carlson

  these motherfuckers out here getting rats stoned and then being like, hey why can't this stoned rat climb a pole? BECAUSE HE'S FUCKING STONED YOU'VE PROVEN NOTHING