Takeshi Kitano is an enigma to me, and I highly doubt I'm alone in that department. 

Mostly known by his stage name Beat Takeshi in Japan, Kitano was a popular comedian with a formidable television presence starting back in the 1970's. His directorial debut, Violent Cop...

How many times during this quarantine have you sat down, determined to watch a 70's exploitation film and just couldn't decide on the genre? I don't want to spark fear, but this could be a symptom of an ever-broadening neurosis brought on by the fact that you now have...

If you're anything like me, you've been staring at your tuxedo cat, coming to the realization that all tuxedos look like dominoes--and if you take their front and back halves, utilizing white spots, you can glean their binary value (for instance, my cat Gus would be a...

At first I thought it was a mistake.

My TCM Underground recording a couple weeks ago simply said Scary Movie without any additional information. So I figured--what I considered a fairly rational deduction--that it was some kind of cable box programming error. Me not kno...

If there's ever been anything in the universe that willed itself into existence from nothingness, out of the ether, into the unbearable lightness of being, it's Jon-Mikl Thor. Sure, that could probably be said of most Canadian pseudo-celebrities, but Jon-Mikl is a spec...

A Top 1 sexual fantasy of mine: I'm just a lonely hydrologist traversing the countryside, studying the water table for the implementation of a major water infrastructure project, and I come across a beautiful, young witch and her majestic white stallion performing a Wi...

Swedish death cults, alligator hurricanes, Rudy Ray Moore, and two men masturbating in a lighthouse. It was definitely a bonkers year for cinema. So why don't you say we dispense with all those niceties and formalities and get right into it? 

Here are the top ten films...

A woman masturbates with the head of her deceased lover while a blind man jealously listens on...

No, that’s not the start to this week’s Dear Abby column. It’s the entire plot to Lamberto Bava’s 1980 debut film, Macabre, a.k.a. Frozen Terror.

Mostly known for directi...

It's not until the fourth film in Kinji Fukasaku's acclaimed five-part yakuza series, Battles Without Honor and Humanity, that the cards are explicitly laid out as to the series' overarching thesis. At the end of that film, Police Tactics, the narrator notes...

"Put your weight on it, put your weight on it, put your weight on it!"

With the release of Dolemite Is My Name, the Netflix biopic about comedian Rudy Ray Moore's origins, what better time than now to discuss the nadir (meaning funnest part) of his career, Disco Godfath...