If you know the phrase “fat, drunk & stupid”, then you know one of the funniest movies of the 70’s…or perhaps this one: “looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue”… And if you ever thought there… Read More ›
Books / Media
Momofuku! Pork Belly Bliss! Inventing Liquid Olives with el Bulli! Mind-Altering Food From Visionary Chefs!
This might be the best-tasting thing you will ever put in your mouth. It’s a delicious concoction from one of the greatest Chefs working today: David Chang – from his Momofuku empire. And what you see above this is food,… Read More ›
Devils! Dwarves! Caligula! Mind-Blowing Movies NOT For Mother’s Day!
Happy Mother’s Day – NOT! I know that Mother’s Day is a time to celebrate all that Mom did to make your life better…but what about the “Crazy Mothers” who spawned these films? Here are 3 films NOT to share… Read More ›
Movie Taboos, Shocking Seductions, “Mr. Tibbs”, Raging Bulls and $7,000 Cinema!
YOU TALKING TO ME? Yes I am! Time to get back to talking movies! Let’s talk some CLASSIC FILMS, like “The Godfather”: The story of Hollywood is much more entertaining that just history. It is full of iconic images like… Read More ›
Congrats, Per Se! Named One Of The Best Restaurants In The World – The French Laundry, Too! Plus Ad Hoc Fried Chicken!
This is a celebration of the world’s best food, created by the world’s best Chefs! This week, S. Pellegrino released their fairly well-regarded annual list of the “World’s 50 Best Restaurants,” and for the third year in a row, René… Read More ›
“Dream Home” Horror! Female “Ninja Warriors”! “Helldriver!”
It has been awhile since I delved into the dark side of cinema…so let’s delve together by returning to a terrific sub-culture of movie that is over-the-top in all the best ways… Welcome to your new home…nice, isn’t it? If… Read More ›
The Mack! Shaft! Sweet Sweetback! Jim Kelly! Blacula! Blaxploitation Lives!
Celebrating a great era in exploitation film making – “BLAXPLOITATION!” “Blaxploitation” is a now somewhat overlooked style of film making from the early 70’s that were an ethnic sub-cuture of exploitation film, focused on the black community. Meet Blaxploitation Legend… Read More ›
Savages, Giant Tuna, Coffee Jelly And My Tokyo Cop Encounter!
Welcome To Tokyo! This is an image of night-time in Tokyo…a gorgeous scene in a wild place…which leads to a story about a Tokyo cop encounter…that’s just ahead, but first, enjoy this image below: This is what we think of… Read More ›
Forbidden Rolling Stones! Fighting Dandys! Janis Joplin Parties! Greatest Rock Docs!
Behold the “Summer Of Love” – when “flower power” met “free love” – and hordes of hippies boarded psychedelic buses that cross-crossed America looking for music festivals, so people could “drop out and turn on.” It was a golden, innocent… Read More ›
The “Phantom” Is Gone! An Appreciation of William Finley…
William Finley Has Died… Very sad news to post. William Finley, the star of Brian DePalma’s brilliant 1974 movie “Phantom Of The Paradise”, has died. Here is a bio I found online: “The lanky 6’4″ William Finley played the side… Read More ›
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