Pete Dragovich

Toxicore Canon Movies from a particular '80s and '90s sensibility that feel like Ed Repka thrash metal album covers, or the novel The Bridge by Skipp & Spector. A vibe, not a list of requirements: glowing ooze, toxi...

Added a bunch of deep cuts to The Most Important Letterboxd List of All Time.

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Lust looks galore! Opportunities for heart-based adultery abound!

Saint of the Narrows Street Amazon.com: Saint of the Narrows Street eBook : Boyle, William: Kindle Store

Soho is running a promo for SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET today. It’s $1.99 on Kindle. If you’ve considered taking a chance on it, now’s a good time to grab the ebook for the price of a pack of gum. www.amazon.com/Saint-Narrow...

The Lyric Opera presents: “A Night of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness”

Homer Simpson: “Just an evening?”

LOL

Opening day of Sam Peckinpah’s JUNIOR BONNER, 8/2/72

i had a great aunt who lived on a farm in queensland who had never actually tried pizza but reverse engineered it for us from descriptions and it was a lot like what if the british had invented deep dish with a base more like a scone than anything else

i deeply regret not getting the recipe

Good movie

#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
Making good dietary choices

Unfettered is the inspiring story of Fetterman’s recovery following a vicious attack by disgraced former detective John Hartigan who ripped off Fetterman’s cock and balls before pummeling his skull until it was just a gloopy yellow stain on the floor.

Opening day of DELIVERANCE, 7/30/72

Amazon review of Pride and Prejudice, left by carlton p morgan on 30 July 2010: "Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses"

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

May They Never Meet Time goes by fast.

ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, six years later. New at the Substack, please subscribe! peteravellino.substack.com/p/may-they-n...

Everything is connected I just finished rewatching the German series DARK and if you haven‘t seen it yet, why are you wasting time reading my shit? Seriously, go watch it now. Avoid...

Latest newsletter is up: On DARK, my wonky brain and being in my Scary German Guy era. buttondown.com/christafaust...

Ichi the Killer manga is out today

(Pretty sure this is its first appearance in English)

Classic Corner: The Ranown Westerns — Crooked Marquee In six masterful late ‘50s Westerns, director Budd Boetticher and star Randolph Scott brilliantly reimagined the Western and its hero.

The brilliant Budd Boetticher was born on this day in 1916, so here are some thoughts on his most celebrated pictures, the Ranown westerns:

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun - with intro

I haven’t seen anyone post this song yet, though I’m sure that’s just my fault. RIP to a fucking legend.

MURDERAPOLIS fucking *moves*, baby. It’s a truly ambitious crime epic yet you won’t find a wasted word. Some great action writing in here too. Hell yeah, Neil!

So rad

This reminds me of when Scott Phillips got the official artwork for the cover of his great novel THE ADJUSTMENT...

It was such an insult.

The Violence Is Still There: Reinvestigating Mike’s Murder Film maudit. It’s a haunting phrase for a haunting concept. Translated as “cursed film,” it refers to a movie spurned by critics and audiences alike, remembered by a coterie of admirers too small t…

MIKE'S MURDER (1984) surfaces on TCM tomorrow, 7/25, at 6PM EST/3PM PST. James Bridges' film, a definitive LA movie, means a lot to me. I wrote about its troubled history and the real-life Hollywood murder that inspired it for @crimereads.bsky.social last year. crimereads.com/the-violence...

The thing about jokes is that they require a shared base of knowledge. A shared reality. If I tell a joke about a commercial and you've never seen that commercial, the joke isn't going to go over very well. Losing late night shows is one more step toward losing a shared reality, and that to me is terrifying. There's a moment every New Yorker knows. It happens when you're on the subway and someone does something particularly insane: an 83-year-old white lady raps, or a man in a three-piece suit publicly clips his toenails. And then you catch the eye of someone across the train - they raise their eyebrows and you raise your eyebrows back. And then you feel a little better because someone else saw what you saw and they can confirm that it's something. Late night hosts like Stephen Colbert do that on a larger scale. They're our way of saying "Hey this is crazy right? RIGHT?" In this world of algorithmic bubbles and blatant lies and deepfakes, late night television is a place you can gather at night and say: "Yes, this happened and it's fucking weird"

I wrote about Colbert for the Guardian. It started out talking about the politics, but then it just became a sort of love letter for late night television.

Looking For Comedies in the Streaming World ‘The Naked Gun’ is a 2025 rarity: a comedy film receiving a wide release. So where did all the funny movies go?

Where do you go for a funny studio movie these days? Not often movie theaters, alas, so @kphipps3000.bsky.social turned to the streaming world to see what 2025 has to offer so far: thereveal.film/looking-for-...

“Every time you think the studios have fucked you every way they can, they come up with a new way.”

HBD, the chaotic iconoclast Paul Schrader ...
📷 Steve Pyke 1985

Fifty-four years ago today at the Warner Rendezvous, The Devils was not a film for everyone… #TheDevils #1970s #film #films #KenRussell #OliverReed #VanesaaRedgrave #AldousHuxley #JohnWhiting

I have a new story out!! reckonreview.com/the-first-tr...

Based on a Westlake novel and starring Lee Byung-hun, aka (to me anyway) as the Korean Mads Mikkelsen! In other words, hard fucking yes.

This disc is out today, featuring a video appreciation from a fellow named me.

Friday’s Forgotten Film: The Beast to Die (1980) The Beast to Die is a 1980 Japanese language crime, psychological neo-noir film directed by Tōru Murakawa and stars Yûsaku Matsuda. It was one of my top noir discoveries of 2022. An absolute brutal…

Helps if I actually provide the link 🙃

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porque no los dos