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This Thursday (3/5) at 8:00 pm we will be screening Alex Cox's amazing Repo Man!!! Where so many "punk rock" movies and TV of the early 80's just didn't "get it" and failed (just check out the punk episodes of Quincy and  C.H.I.P.S.!!!), this movie totally "got it". The soundtrack (which rocks!) uses real punk bands like Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Fear and a great theme song by the godfather of punk himself, Iggy Pop! The story is simple. Otto (Emilio Estevez)  gets a job as a a repo man where he meets eccentric co-workers like Bud (Harry Dean Stanton) and Miller (Tracey Walter). He learns the ropes of the job (like getting shot at) while chasing girls and eventually hunting down a Chevy Malibu which carries some strange cargo in its trunk. The film is more than the sum of its parts though. It perfectly captures the spirit of the L.A. punk rock world without overdoing it or resorting to caricature. And this is one movie that can't be accused of product placement as all of the products have generic labels (I.E. beer cans that are only labeled: BEER). Come join us for some wacky adventures and hi-jinks and a trip back to the early 80's. See you Thursday!! 

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Come experience one of the most underrated cult classics of bizarro cinema with us this Thursday (2/26) at 8:00 when we screen Spider Baby (1967). The film is directed by Jack Hill (Foxy Brown, Coffy, Switchblade Sisters, The Big Bird Cage) and stars Lon Chaney Jr. (who even goes so far as to sing the theme song!). For a long time this movie was out of print and almost forgotten about. I had first heard (read) about it in the book Incredibly Strange Films put out by the Re-Search Crew. It sounded weird and bizarre and totally up my alley. After it was finally released on video in the early 90's and I finally got to check it out.....it did not disappoint!! It is a strange film about a caretaker/chauffeur in an old dilapidated mansion looking after a family who all have Merrye's disease, a mentally degenerative disease brought on from inbreeding. Trouble arrives when greedy relatives come to dispose the family from their home. The original title was Cannibal Orgy....if that tells you a little something about the movie! Hard to believe that this was done in 1967 and is way beyond its time! Hope to see you at CineMug to experience the greatness of Spider Baby!!                   -Dan

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Thursday 2/11 at 8:00 we will be showing the little seen classic, John Waters' Desperate Living! This is Waters' only movie he made without his star Divine (until her untimely death) but there are still plenty of his Dreamland regulars including Edith Massey and Mink Stole. The film has the look and feel of his trashy and subversive earlier films and has plenty of off-color laughs. The opening scene itself is a work of overblown brilliance (the first time I saw it, I immediately rewound the tape...yes tape...and watched the first ten minutes a second time before continuing!). The story is almost a fairy tale (but not for kids!!) involving all sorts of degenerates that the main character meets when she has to run off to the fictional town of Mortville (built in a garbage dump) to avoid getting caught for killing her husband with her maid. This is up there with John Waters' best in bad taste. CineMug is proud to present this glorious trash in conjunction with the Cunty Critic (check out thecuntycritic.com). If you like both the Cunty Critic and CineMug facebook pages, you can win some swell prizes tomorrow night, so come on over to the shop and watch with us! See you there!