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Author Archives: Mike Wood
Mike Wood
Film Review: Sergei Loznitsa’s My Joy
This Ukrainian film set in Russia and directed by documentary filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa offers no reason or explanation for why the boring, the tragic, the senseless and the funny happen in our daily lives.
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Film Review: Square Grouper
Film Book Review: Every Night the Trees Disappear: Werner Herzog and the Making of “Heart of Glass” by Alan Greenberg
The Dude Abides: The Gospel According to the Coen Brothers
Book Review: Plague Town: An Ashley Parker Novel
Dana Fredsti, novelist and former swordswoman in charge of training on Sam Raimi’s Army of Darkness, manages to squeeze some fresh juice out of an idea that Buffy did better on the small screen.
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Film Book Review: Shade Rupe’s Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the Outer Realms
No one would argue with calling this massive, invaluable tome “exhaustive,” though there might be a few who would squawk with using the word “definitive.”
DVD Review: The Exterminator
The Ruse of Tribute: Vanity and Legacy in The Belly of an Architect
Memory is only important to the living; preservation of art or artifice, while living, is only preparation for possible legacy.
DVD Review: Adua and Her Friends (Adua e le Compagne)
IN/FLUX: Mediatrips from the African World
The first in a projected three DVD series, IN/FLUX is a collection of ten short films and videos from Africa.
DVD Review: The Who, The Mods and the Quadrophenia Connection (MVD)
Finally, an unauthorized peek at a crucial period of a classic band that doesn’t suck! You’ve surely seen the recent Dylan and Beatles videos that feature still photos, lame background music in keys that suggest the artists’ music but can’t use it because of copyright. The Who, The Mods and the Quadrophenia Connection is actually […]
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DVD Review: Know Your Mushrooms (2009 Sphynx Productions)
Those expecting this documentary to be about the mind-expanding, space-travel inducing, true sacred portal to the gods types of mushrooms, you have to wait until the latter half of the film. The first part is about plain old yummy wild mushrooms, and the people who love them, hunt for them, and hold festivals in honor […]
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Book Review: The American International Pictures Video Guide by Gary A. Smith
Shame on any film fan who doesn’t have a warm spot in their soul for AIP. American International Pictures was, if not consistently good, at least consistently inventive. From 1954 through the late 70s, the studio cranked out eccentric and sometimes brilliant B-movies, employing the likes of Roger Corman, Vincent Price, and Michael Landon, as […]
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DVD review: One Love: Words Sounds & Powah (1988/2009; MVD)
In the late 1980s, documentary filmmaker Howard Johnson was given unprecedented access to the Rastafarian community in Britain, resulting in a 10 part series, Rockers Roadshow. Some of his wealth of material, shot in London and Nottingham, also was also collected in the One Love series, three short films that even today are riveting in […]
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