The Cinema 4 Pylon

Film and whatever else gets dragged along with it... for the full story, go to http://cinema4pylon.blogspot.com/.

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More This Week in Rixflix goodness from The Cinema 4 Pylon. A heavy horror film focus this time, with reviews of Blair Witch, Last Girl Standing, Dude Bro Party Massacre III and Ouija: Origin of Evil. Also: The Big Sick and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. I also sum up my final results from my big Hitchcock dive as I concentrated on completing the TCM course at the end of July and early August. Read it all at: http://cinema4pylon.blogspot.com/2017/08/this-week-in-rixflix-19-august-18-24.html.

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Alex Ross.

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Love and Romance Vol. 2 No. 6, June 1972

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#the new justice league movie looks good!

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Go Isla Fisher you climb that little ladder to paradise

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May Directed by Lucky McKee (2002)

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“But it’s really something when you think that… I’m the one who’s gonna be famous. Suzanne would die if she knew.”

To Die For (1995) dir. Gus Van Sant

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Still Van Sant’s best film...

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…rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire’s ultimate weapon, the Death Star, an armored space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet. Pursued by the Empire’s sinister agents, Princess Leia races home aboard her starship, custodian of the stolen plans that can save her people and restore freedom to the galaxy.

Star Wars Episode IV -A New Hope (1977) dir. George Lucas

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Land of the Lost (1974), “Follow That Dinosaur”

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Simone Simon in a promotional photograph for Cat People, 1942

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Baby...

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Early New Orleans Square model and concept art, and a few critters enjoying it.

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Rodan (1956)

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My latest edition of This Week in Rixflix has just gone live. This time around, the concentration is on the 14 feature length films that I watched during the week that were all directed by the recently deceased Jonathan Demme. I am calling this one my All-Demme issue, though there were 4 other features I watched during the week (one of which he wrote and produced).

https://cinema4pylon.blogspot.com/2017/05/this-week-in-rixflix-8-all-demme.html

I discuss the primary element in Demme's work that allowed me to connect to it in a way that I haven't for most other modern filmmakers. Though he is on my short list of favorites along with Lynch, Cronenberg, Carpenter, Tarantino and a few others, my connection to his work is of a far different nature than the rest.

Most of all, this piece goes deep into my adoration for Demme's Oscar-winning 1980 comedy/drama, Melvin and Howard, the one that got the ball rolling for my love of his films.

If you have not taken a shot at reading anything on The Cinema 4 Pylon yet, this is a great starting point. You can get a taste of my beyond-OCD obsession with film, how much it has governed both my life and mind, and just where I stand on the rest of the world. I hope you join me.

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About a week ago, I posted a very silly recap on The Cinema 4 Pylon about the fun a couple friends and I had in taking a certain facial analysis test on through Facebook, in which we used a series of movie monster photos to gauge the results.

I hinted at a follow-up at that time, and here it is: Face Analysis Face-Off: Part the Second, in which I take the silliness factor to the next level. Is it really my personality on display or the Wolf Man's?

Join in the fun at https://cinema4pylon.blogspot.com/2017/05/face-analysis-face-off-part-second.html

And if you missed Part the First, you can still read it at https://cinema4pylon.blogspot.com/2017/05/face-analysis-face-off-part-first.html

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My latest edition of This Week in Rixflix is live now on The Cinema 4 Pylon. Capsule reviews of a few films that made a mark on me during the week, why Feud and Bates Motel left me slightly saddened after their finales, and why the loss of director Jonathan Demme left me many times sadder.

https://cinema4pylon.blogspot.com/2017/05/this-week-in-rixflix-7-april-21-27-2017.html.

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I posted a new article, review, or photo essay every day of October in my Countdown to Halloween. Check them out at http://cinema4pylon.blogspot.com/.

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Part 2 of my piece on the werewolves in my youth, which leads to an intriguing research mystery in my later years.

Read "Non-Chaney, Pt. 2: Werewolves Along the Wall" on The Cinema 4 Pylon at http://bit.ly/2f6fgsN.

This one takes a plot turn worthy of From Dusk Till Dawn... only with the monsters at the front half...