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Heavy Traffic (1973)

Posted on March 27, 2021 at 9:43 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Following the breakout success of Fritz the Cat (1972), the X-rated animated adaptation of Robert Crumb’s underground comix, director Ralph Bakshi had the cachet to pursue the project he’d originally intended to be his first feature: Heavy Traffic (1973). Just … Continue reading →

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Reefer Madness (1938)

Posted on February 20, 2021 at 9:42 am by Jeff Kuykendall

2021 is the 10th anniversary of Midnight Only. To mark the occasion, this imaginary, rat-infested, leaky-roofed theater is raising the curtain on historically important midnight movies. “The motion picture you are about to witness may startle you. It would not … Continue reading →

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Double Feature: The Naked Zoo (1970)/Mako: Jaws of Death (1976)

Posted on December 4, 2020 at 10:50 am by Jeff Kuykendall

The third disc in Arrow Video’s He Came from the Swamp: The William Grefé Collection matches a reconstructed director’s cut of Grefé’s druggy, campy melodrama The Naked Zoo (1970) with one of his best known grindhouse efforts, the sharksploitation feature Mako: … Continue reading →

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