POP OFFENSIVE RETURNS this Wednesday, January 7th at 7pm PT. Listen to us live on http;//9thfloorradio.com for a percolating primer on world pop past and present. Tweet us at @PopOffRadio.
“I bought my copy of Gekko Kamen at the Toei Studios theme park in Kyoto because I thought it would be wrong to leave Japan without purchasing at least one exorbitantly priced DVD. Once I got home and immediately found that I missed being surrounded by Asian people speaking a language I mostly couldn’t understand, I threw it on and quickly became transfixed.”
“Halloween movie lists have become a staple of the season. But one has to admit that there’s a numbing amount of overlap between them. I mean, does one really need to cram that much Vincent Price into their cinematic diet all in one go? In response, I have called shenanigans, emerged from my sharecropper’s cabin, stumbled down the hill and perched myself in front of the community center’s battered old Mac to do something that I should have done long ago. Below is a list of movies that, if you can find them, will guarantee you a Halloween like no other…”
This Tuesday, October 7, get in the Halloween spirit with The 4DK Monthly Movie Shout Down as we tweet along to BLOODY PIT OF HORROR! Join us on Twitter at 6pm PT, using the hashtag #4DKMSD to join the conversation. Full details at http://shout-down.com
The 4DK Monthly Movie Shout Down is back! Join us this Tuesday at 6pm PT as we tweet along to Filipino exploitation king Eddie Romero’s tribute to “The Island of Dr. Moreau”, THE TWILIGHT PEOPLE, a spiritual sibling to his lurid “Blood Island” trilogy. See the official Shout Down site for details.
POP OFFENSIVE RETURNS tomorrow — Wednesday, July 30th at 7pm PDT. Listen to us live at http://9thfloorradio.com
Criterion and Janus Films have restored and re-released A Hard Day’s Night (1964), opening in theaters in the US starting over the long holiday weekend.
