Category Archives: Movies

Movies Till Dawn: Here and There, Then and Now

Posted on June 12, 2023 by Paul Gaita

* indicates that the film is also available for digital sale or rental on various platforms. “The Worst Ones” (2022, Kino Lorber*) A filmmaker (Johan Heldenberg) and his crew seek an authentic tone to their socially conscious drama by casting … Continue reading →

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Whammy! Screens ‘Unidad: Gay & Lesbian Latinos Unidos’ Documentary this Sunday

Posted on May 24, 2023 by Judy Ornelas Sisneros

This Sunday, Rudy Bleu Garcia presents a screening of UNIDAD: Gay & Lesbian Latinos Unidos (2022), a documentary that focuses on GLLU, a community organization which existed in the 1980s for queer-identified Los Angeles-based Latin@. Director Gregorio Davila and punk photographer, … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: Thrills and Chills ’23

Posted on May 12, 2023 by Paul Gaita

“AmnesiA” (Cult Epics, 2001) Photographer Alex (Fedja van Huet) abandons his faltering career – too many visions of a past trauma interrupting the shoots – and joins his twin brother Aram (also van Huet) at their mother’s home, which appears … Continue reading →

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New Argentine Cinema with Albertina Carri queer mini-film festival this Saturday!

Posted on May 4, 2023 by Judy Ornelas Sisneros

“Join L.M.N.O.P. & Whammy! for a small retrospective of Albertina Carri’s shorts and her erotic feature Las Hijas del Fuego (The Daughters of Fire, 2018). Albertina Carri (b.1973) is a seminal figure of the New Argentine Cinema that burst into … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: Beyond Belief Part 3

Posted on April 30, 2023 by Paul Gaita

“Police Story 3: Supercop” (1992, 88 Films) Third entry in Jackie Chan’s long-running action-crime film series (which includes one spinoff and two reboots) is also one of its most entertaining thanks to the proliferation of eye-popping stunts and the addition … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: B/W

Posted on April 14, 2023 by Paul Gaita

“The Night of the Iguana” (1964, Warner Archives Collection) Sin and redemption (but mostly sin) in Puerto Vallarta, with Richard Burton as a defrocked priest leading American tours in Mexico and Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, and Sue Lyon as various … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: Beyond Belief Part 2

Posted on March 29, 2023 by Paul Gaita

“M3GAN” (Universal Home Video) Toy designer Allison Williams (who’s fast becoming a horror star) seeks to resolve a need for companionship in her niece (Cady McGraw), who is grieving the loss of her parents, and creates the titular robot friend, … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: Beyond Belief

Posted on March 10, 2023 by Paul Gaita

“The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” (1974, Dark Sky Films) Tobe Hooper’s landmark horror film has been imitated, duplicated, and sequelized multiple times, all of which (even Hooper’s own 1986 revisit) haven’t come close to the anarchic, nightmarish terror of the … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: Cinematic Journeys

Posted on February 1, 2023 by Paul Gaita

“5-25-77” (2022, MVD Visual) Bittersweet, if overly long tribute to the pros and cons of the creative in the form of a nostalgic valentine to backyard moviemaking and teenage nerd-dom. Writer/director Patrick Read Johnson – a former special effects creator … Continue reading →

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Cardiologist/Actor Rico Simonini: An Interview Pulsating with Twists, Turns, Legendary Lore, and Doggedly Dramatic Beats

Posted on January 30, 2023 by Jennifer K. Hugus

It has been said, health and creativity go hand in hand — in this case, by way of drama and doctoring! Throw in a Triple Threat, and you’ve got a career — nay set of careers and stories to accompany … Continue reading →

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