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“Save the Earth” Day with Godzilla, Hedorah and Frogs at FACETS
Tickets at https://facets.org/CINEMA Through the thick smog of escalating cancer capitalism during the early 1970s there was little focus on the morbidity and mortality induced by American industrial imperialism apart from a Public Service Announcement on US television featuring a (faux) Native American shedding a tear over a family littering out their car window. In…
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Dinosaurs Plus! at DOC Films Chicago–When Monsters Were Monsters and Dinosaurs Were Unreal
SCHEDULE AND TICKETS FOR “DINOSAURS PLUS! ON FILM AT DOC FILMS Saturday 1 (docfilms.org) My frustrations about the milquetoast blockbuster duplicity of the latest Godzilla film were unexpectedly mitigated by a welcome screening of Eugene Lourie’s shoestring dinosaur-on-the-loose entry The Giant Behemoth (1958) as part of the Brothers Valauskas “Dinosaurs Plus! On Film” series screening…
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Godzilla Minus One Very Important Thing
Toho’s original Godzilla (1954) is not only one of the most impactful monster movies of all time, it’s one of the most potent post-war cautionary tales in cinema history. Due to its proximity to the mass death and destruction inflicted upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US in 1945, Ishiro Honda’s Godzilla pulls no punches…
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Witch Films Will Make YOU Believe (?)–An Antidote for Learned Skepticism
The horror genre requires a suspension of disbelief on the part of the viewer, asking them to compartmentalize the “real world” from their onscreen experience. Thus it would be worth noting a subgenre of horror that was able to instill or alter real-world belief systems, or at the very least chip away at the…
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Super Horror-Rama will make a believer out of you
TICKETS AT SUPER-HORROR-RAMA! Tickets, Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 5:00 PM | Eventbrite For those of you who have never had the opportunity to experience the drive-in horror/grindhouse mood, or for those of you who have and just can’t get it back, House of Movie Monsters is teaming up with John McDevitt of FACETS in…
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G-Fest 2023 — Saving the earth one G Fan at a time
While G-Fest has been the most efficiently run and fan friendly show I have attended and/or vended at in my 45 years of experience, this year’s proved to be the best attended and most exciting yet. From the vendor’s perspective it is a dream come true, with the door openings on Saturday and Sunday looking…
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