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24/01/2025

I take great pleasure in being able to help raise funds for the Special Olympics, Charity and kindness should be at the forefront of a persons actions. 

08/07/2023

"Since the years of the Reagan administration, (Republicans have) wanted to destroy the New Deal state (and) recognized that the only way they could win voters to slash taxes for the wealthy and cut back popular social programs

was by whipping up social issues to convince voters that Black Americans, or people of color, or feminists, wanted a handout from the government, undermining America by ushering in “socialism.”

The forty years from 1981 to 2021 moved wealth upward dramatically and hollowed out the middle class,

creating a disaffected population ripe for an authoritarian figure who promised to return that population to upward mobility by taking revenge on those they now saw as their enemies.

Biden’s resurrection of the liberal consensus of the years from 1933 to 1980 is illustrating that the economic problems in the country were the fault of Republican policies rather than of marginalized people.

The extremism of those angry Republican footsoldiers is revealing that they are not the centrist Americans they have claimed to be.

(Republican think tank leaders) embrace the illiberal "Christian democracy" of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán, saying: “It’s time to clean house in America: remove the attorney general, lay siege to the universities, abolish the teachers’ unions, and overturn the school boards.”

Radical right activists like Rufo believe they must capture the central institutions of the U.S. and get rid of the tenets of democracy—

individual rights,
academic freedom,
free markets,
separation of church and state,
equality before the law—
in order to "save the country."

Because those central democratic values are taught in schools, the far right has focused on attacking schools from kindergartens to universities with the argument that they are places of “liberal indoctrination.”

As a Moms for Liberty chapter in Indiana put on its first newspaper:

“He alone, who OWNS the youth, GAINS the future.”

While this quotation is often used by right-wing Christian groups to warn of what they claim liberal groups do, it is attributed to German dictator Adolf Hi**er. "

27/04/2023

We appear to have lost the highly amusing raconteur of early 80s Italian cult "video nasties", Giovanni Lombardo Radice...the man who literally kicked off the Third Eye Cinema podcast with his hilariously blunt anecdotes about his work with Lenzi, Fulci, Soavi, Margheriti and many others (wait till he gets around to De Martino!)

Amazing storyteller. Do check out my typically comprehensive and revealing interview with the man, it's a real rip.

Third Eye Cinema debut episode! Tonight we interview Giovanni Lombardo Radice, known to cult film fans around the world as “John Morghen”. Star of numerous Italian grindhouse favorites…

20/04/2023

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Edward Regan Murphy was born in Broooklyn’s dicey Bushwick district, 1961, to a transit cop and ill fated aspiring comedian. Raised by a single mother (after a lengthy stint with foster paren…

15/04/2023

Surprise! Another indie Roundup for your weekend perusal awaits:

Taking advantage of a temporary pause on the Weird Scenes front to catch up with a few reviewables, once again mainly concentrated on newcomers and direct contacts. Have no fear, longtime labels, …

13/04/2023

Roundup Reviews have returned!

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12/04/2023

next on schedule...

Born in Newark, NJ in September of 1940, Brian DePalma went from physics student to student filmmaker in the heady height of the hippie era, with his early experimental films introducing none other…

06/04/2023

Next on the schedule: our centennary episode with none other than Jamie Lee Curtis!

Santa Monica, Thanksgiving of 1958: Jamie Lee Curtis is born to screen idols Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.

30/03/2023

We've mentioned our appreciation of the guy enough times. Next on the schedule, Class(y) Clown Richard Benjamin!

Born in NYC way back in 1938 to a garment district worker, Richard Benjamin met his wife to this very day, fellow actress Paula Prentiss, and would appear with her in several theatrical, filmic and…

08/03/2023

One more added to the schedule:

John Adam Belushi was born in Chicago, 1949…and like so many bright lights of the counterculture, left us at a disturbingly young age, only 33 years later at the dawn of March, 1982. A candle…

27/02/2023

New Roundup Reviews on tap for those stopping by woods on a snowy evening...

And as things continue apace on the editing front (even now, on our new biweekly schedule, we’re only halfway through what was already recorded!) over at Weird Scenes, aside from putting one …