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heathermariedrain
Jun 14, 20211 min read
Love in the Rushes with Jeff Koons & Cicciolina....
If you love fine art, controversy, Hungarian/Italian models-adult film stars-politicians-pop stars, and amour itself, then grab a...
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heathermariedrain
May 18, 20217 min read
Jim Steinman is The Emperor in Black Leather
If music be the food of love; Give me excess of it “Twelfth Night” Shakespeare Let the revels begin Let the fire be started We're dancing...
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heathermariedrain
May 16, 20211 min read
VIVA is Coming to Blu-Ray
Very few films post-sexual revolution have captured even a mere prism of the such heady cultural reverb in suburban America like Anna...
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heathermariedrain
Feb 17, 202127 min read
World Built of Blood, Heart & Magick: The First Three Features of Alejandro Jodorowsky
This is a chapter excerpt from the 2019 book, The Bizarro Encyclopedia of Film Volume 1, penned by myself & John Skipp. Enjoy! Good art...
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heathermariedrain
Feb 15, 202117 min read
Two Minutes to Midnight: Loss of Cultural Memory & Nuclear Fear in 1980s Music Video
Cultural memory is something that is shaky. Much like our own individual memory, it can be hard enough trying to navigate life when our...
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heathermariedrain
Feb 9, 20218 min read
My Dream Date With Radu Vadislav
Back in 2015, I was blessed enough to be a part of the second volume of the Dream Date With a Villain series. Published by the...
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heathermariedrain
Feb 5, 20214 min read
The Slums of Glendale & The Ghosts of Fayetteville
There is a PTSD to being financially insecure. Tied to that, there's another level to it when you live in a slum. Black mold and enough...
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heathermariedrain
Jan 20, 20217 min read
Descent into the Inferno: Roger Watkins Corruption
The art of the power play and what levels one is willing to sink to sell their soul, or at the very least, their sense of moral self, is...
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heathermariedrain
Dec 9, 20206 min read
Keep on Driving: Marc Lawrence's PIGS
In the backwoods of America, many a secret is held. Nestled in the woods, desert landscapes, the brick and wood of farms, homes and...
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heathermariedrain
Dec 7, 20208 min read
The Blood in the Jazz: Emilio Vierya's Placer Sangriento
“When you're all alone, what do you want to do? Do you want to die or is it the strangeness in me?” -The Cramps The melancholia of a...
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heathermariedrain
Dec 7, 20207 min read
Candide on Speed: Alex de Renzy's Pretty Peaches Trilogy
Even in the wild wild west days of adult filmmaking, few directors were as bold and frankly, at times, batshit, as Alex de Renzy. Outre...
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heathermariedrain
Dec 7, 20205 min read
The Charles Rocket Files #2: It's all Going Down Twisted
Nothing was supposed to go wrong... If ever there was a halcyon era for the B movie, it was the 1980s. Part of this boon was due, no...
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heathermariedrain
Dec 6, 20206 min read
Asleep No More: James B. Harris' Some Call it Loving
The best kind of fairy tales are the ones where the magic is tinged with melancholy, where bits of fantasy are frayed with the...
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heathermariedrain
Dec 6, 20204 min read
Mr. Blue Sky: A Tribute to Peter Iasillo Jr.
Hey there Mr. Blue We're so pleased to be with you Look around see what you do Everybody smiles at you “Mister Blue Sky” Electric Light...
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heathermariedrain
Nov 14, 20207 min read
The Illusionary Web: Zachary Youngblood's Visions of Clair
It takes a special film to successfully bridge the world of seeming reality with one that is a bit more ethereal, a bit darker and ,,,
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heathermariedrain
Nov 14, 20207 min read
Say it Again! Mad Magazine Presents Up the Academy!
There is something so undeniably captivating about a magnificent disaster. It's the same kind of charisma and fear that you see in riots...
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heathermariedrain
Nov 14, 20204 min read
The Charles Rocket Files: In the Beginning...
“Switch on the TV we may pick him up on channel two Look out your window I can see his light If we can sparkle he may land tonight” David...
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heathermariedrain
Nov 14, 20205 min read
Mondo Fever Dream: Doris Wishman's The Prince & The Nature Girl
A movie can often be a magical tool to transport you to a multitude of worlds and alternate realms. Lands with braggadocios knights,...
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heathermariedrain
Nov 14, 20207 min read
History of The World-The Damned Edition: Wes Orshoski's Don't You Wish That We Were Dead
No more getting pushed around, second time around Back to haunt you with our sound, second time around -The Damned “Machine Gun...
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heathermariedrain
Nov 14, 20205 min read
A Boomerang Life: Albert Latuada's STAY AS YOU ARE
The ballad of the neglected middle-aged man is one that has often been written in innumerable books and pieces of cinema. Throw in a...
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