The Projector Has Been Drinking

Sometimes at this point of the year, I get super-introspective. But this time out I'm tabling the philosophising for a different day. I reckon you can find plenty of deep thoughts elsewhere on th...

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In 2009, a pseudonymous author and private investigator using the moniker Phaedra Starling first coined a now ubiquitous and often contentious term: “Schroedinger’s Rapist.” Modeled on the ...

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In a sense, Patricia Russell was well-suited to a creative life because her early years were already chronicled in public. She and her sister Susan Hudson Russell were ersatz Akron, Ohio cele...

http://projectorhasbeendrinking.blogspot.com/2023/01/it-was-just-out-of-reach.html

Ostensibly, 2022 presented me to the world as a man of leisure, if not yet of influence. I am in the happy position of not having to do a damned thing that I don't care to, at least not in anyone...

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A preface: The following essay will be detailing almost every major plot revelation in THE BLACK PHONE, as well as that from other well-known films by the same director. I don't personally be...

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It's a peculiar thing to be in my circumstance now, watching and shuddering over the pendulum swings that have affected peoples' lives in 2021, while I now exist on a comfortable keel. I spent s...

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A preface: The following essay will be detailing almost every major plot revelation in LAST NIGHT IN SOHO, as well as that from another well-known Italian thriller by  a name director. I ...

http://projectorhasbeendrinking.blogspot.com/2021/11/i-believe-you-thousands-wouldnt.html

A preface: before I even mention the name of the person whose life experience will be discussed in this essay, I can hear an army of reply guys assembling, ready to volley several “Well, actu...

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It’s been said that before there was the printed word, songs and poetry carried stories to the people for centuries. One learned of ancestral tales and current events through verses and chorus....

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Most movements in film history could be considered incidental: one film becomes a success, its creators and rivals observe this and make their own duplicates, until a genre unto itself is born, s...

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Many things have changed in the long stretch since I first started putting my cultural musings here. But one that has not is my stubborn belief that quantities are gathered from 1 to 10 and not 0...

http://projectorhasbeendrinking.blogspot.com/2020/12/one-more-nick-on-teens.html

After four years of ass-kicking, 2019 somehow finally served the impression things were improving. But that was a delusion brought on by all the buffeting because 2020 happened. And in a most bi...

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For as much as there have been thousands of words written in regard to the lifetime of hours that Quentin Tarantino has spent in a cinema seat, there should also be a significant amount of disc...

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After four years of ass-kicking, 2019 somehow finally served the impression things were improving. Or maybe that was a delusion brought on by all the buffeting; The New Cruelty is ongoing, to be...

http://projectorhasbeendrinking.blogspot.com/2019/12/pass-me-product-nineteen.html

Roughly nine years ago, I stumbled across a great glorious cinematic What-in-the-Sam-Hill called STANDING OVATION , which I described as the tweener intersection of HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL and "JERSE...

http://projectorhasbeendrinking.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-new-normal-of-next-level.html

2015 kicked my ass. 2016 kicked EVERYBODY'S ass. 2017 discovered our collective asses were numb from all the kicking, so a series of sucker punches, rope burns, paper cuts, and other attacks en...

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Your first favorite comedy recording is one of the milestones of your childhood; it may not fully define the expanse or range of what you find funny as you grow older, but it presents the roo...

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A pair of perpetually sad eyes staring from a face obscured by cloth. A naive high school girl so genuine in her belief in flower power a cynical detective can’t help being fond of her as ...

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For the first five minutes, it’s her movie.  The steely Chicano woman in the drab clothes and sunglasses stepping off the train at Union Station, greeted by a rare Los Angeles rain, si...

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If you were to approach one of the devoted fans of Michael Schultz and Eric Monte's enduring 1975 coming-of-age comedy/drama COOLEY HIGH, and ask them what are the Top Five things they remember a...

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2015 kicked my ass. 2016 kicked EVERYBODY'S ass. 2017 discovered our collective asses were numb from all the kicking, so a series of sucker punches, rope burns, paper cuts, and other attacks ens...

http://projectorhasbeendrinking.blogspot.com/2017/12/it-wont-turn-green-damn-you-seventeen.html

NOW AVAILABLE FOR STREAMING ON NIGHT FLIGHT PLUS IS THE INFLUENTIAL 1977 FANTASTIC ANIMATION FESTIVAL , THE FIRST WIDELY-RELEASED COLLECTION OF ANIMATED FILMS, WHICH BECAME A HIT WITH MIDNIG...

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  THE 1972 MURDER MYSTERY WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO SOLANGE? , PART OF A WAVE OF STYLISH AND MEMORABLE FOREIGN-MADE HORROR FILMS DURING THE ‘70S, HAS RECENTLY BEEN ADDED TO NIGHT FLIGHT PLUS ...

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(OR: FASTER, FRANKENFURT! KILL! KILL!) Respectfully dedicated to all my friends at Sins o' the Flesh and Girlwerks Media Sometimes, the unexpected pleasures of watching your favorite fil...

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  ON THIS FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE PASSING OF DAVID BOWIE, A LOSS STILL FELT PROFOUNDLY BY ALL OF US HERE AT NIGHT FLIGHT, WE’RE TAKING AN OPPORTUNITY TO REFLECT ON HIS UNDERAPPRECIATED CA...

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