Border Radio (1987): John Doe Week
Editor’s Desk: This review originally ran on September 26, 2020, as part of our “Rock ‘n’ Roll Week II.” We’ve brought it back for “John Doe Week.“ Was it worth waiting a few years before finding a copy of this poorly-distributed VHS in a cut-out bin at an old Sound Warehouse? Oh, yeah. Fans of […]
Slam Dance (1987)
John Doe made his first big screen appearances in the 1981 music documentaries The Decline of Western Civilization and Urgh! A Music War. While he made his big screen debut as an actor in Oliver Stone’s Salvador (1986; reviewed this week), he actually made his first foray into acting with Allison Anders’s Border Radio (1987), […]
Salvador (1986)
Editor’s Desk: This is our first review in our week-long tribute to the acting career of John Doe from the Los Angeles punk band, X. Before receiving wide-spread acclaim for the one-two punch of Platoon (1986) and Wall Street (1987), and after intriguing audience with his feature film debut Seizure (1974) and an adaptation of […]
Slasher Month: The Red Right Hand (2001)
As I write this, Boston’s iconic, trendsetting alternative rock station, WFNX 101.7 FM, is no more. When the station went on the air in 1947 as WLYN, it broadcast a programming palate of simulcasting its sister AM station with the same callsign on AM 1360, then originated its own programming at night after the AM […]
The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)
Penelope Spheeris may be best known for Wayne’s World, but her life and films are more than just one movie. Until the age of seven, Spheeris grew up in a traveling carnival until her father was stabbed after intervening in a racial dispute. After his death, she grew up in California trailer parks with a succession […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge: Day 18: A Matter of Degrees (1990)
Day 18 Only on VHS: Watch something on the true psychotronic format Editor’s Desk: Upon the news of his medical hardships, we’ve seen an uptick in our reviews of Tom Sizemore films, which is no way for anyone to discover an actor’s films. Regrettably, Tom—whose credits included the major studio films Natural Born Killers, True […]
STEPHEN KING WEEK: The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)
Originally titled The Curse, this film, based on the real-life Spur Posse case, sat in development hell for two years. One can only wish that it had remained there. How did we as a people allow this movie to happen? If only social media had been around to shame this film into nothingness back then! […]
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