In Europe, board games are serious business and their creators are like rock stars. ‘Going Cardboard’ is a new independent documentary about the wild world of board games.
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Director Amy Oden’s documentary on women in punk, ‘From the Back of the Room,’ is one of those films that you have to seek out. It’s currently screening in various theaters across the country, and can be purchased on DVD.
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‘Hell on Earth’ focuses on a group of young folks defending their home from an invasion. In Bohus’ previous ‘The Deadly Spawn,’ it was toothy leeches from outer space; Hell On Earth summons demons and zombies from hell.
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Lilly Scourtis Ayers’ film ‘Last Fast Ride: The Life, Love, and Death of a Punk Goddess,’ premiered at the 2011 Slamdance Festival and is out now on DVD, but it’s difficult to see who the interested parties might be.
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‘Shut Up Little Man!’ is a bit of personal entertainment that, due to popular dissemination via cassettes (audio and video) in the pre-Internet age, grows beyond its beginnings between friends into a global phenomenon.
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Starting the new documentary ‘Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel’ with spotty, scratched-up film, director Alex Singleton sets the tone for the film right from the get-go.
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The story of Memphis and its obsession with the squared circle is explored in the new documentary Memphis Heat: The True Story of Memphis Wrasslin’.
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‘The Other F Word’ is a documentary about punk rockers who are used to bucking authority and now find it hard to assimilate to fatherhood and keep their punk attitudes. Sounds interesting, but how’s the movie?
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At festivals now, ‘Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone’ is an effective rock documentary of a one-of-a-kind alternative band that should have been bigger.
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The first film in this month’s Horror Remix is 1987′s The Video Dead. It’s poorly acted, and is about a cursed television set that brings forth zombies upon the world. It’s pretty much as fantastic as it sounds.
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Two really cheesy horror flicks that may brighten your Halloween movie-watching this season: The atrociously hilarious ‘Bloody Pit of Horror’ and a ‘Creeping Terror’ that looks like a bunch of gents under a large shag rug.
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PC Treasures makes a series of double-feature DVDs of public-domain films. In honor of the Halloween Horror Marathon, this Seeing Double column features ‘Atom Age Vampire’ and ‘Revolt of the Zombies.’
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A different take on the classic horror anthology — ‘Tales From the Hood’ is like a feature-length collection of films inspired by the video for Snoop Dogg’s “Murder Was the Case.”
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1974′s Black Christmas is considered a classic, especially due to the fact that so many of it’s tropes have been lifted by films that succeeded it.
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