Like we did last summer: Top 15 Rock Musicals
By Dennis Hartley (Originally posted on Digby’s Hullabaloo on July 3, 2021) Ah, July 4th weekend. Nothing kicks off Summer like an all-American holiday that encourages mass consumption of animal flesh...
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View Article2023: A Spliff Odyssey
By Dennis Hartley (Originally posted on Digby’s Hullabaloo on January 7, 2023) Dreadlocks can’t smoke him pipe in peace Too much informers and too much beast Too much watchie watchie watchie, too much...
View ArticleSIFF 2023: The Incredible Shrinking Man ***1/2
By Dennis Hartley Always remember, never mix your drinks. And, as we learn from Jack Arnold’s 1957 sci-fi classic (one of three special archival presentations at this year’s SIFF), you should never mix...
View ArticleKirkegaard, Fran, & Ollie : Once Within a Time (***)
By Dennis Hartley (Originally posted on Digby’s Hullabaloo on October 21, 2023) Back in February of 2017, my dear mother passed away, at the age of 86. While she had been weathering a plethora of...
View ArticleMask season: 25 movies for Halloween!
By Dennis Hartley (Originally posted on Digby’s Hullabaloo on October 28, 2023) (With apologies to Rod Serling for my frightfully tacky paraphrasing) Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of...
View ArticleHere, There, and Everywhere Now and Then
By Dennis Hartley (Originally posted on Digby’s Hullabaloo on November 4, 2023) “All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.” -Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five All...
View ArticleBlu-ray Reissue: Inland Empire (***)
By Dennis Hartley (Originally posted on Digby’s Hullabaloo on Dec 17, 2023) Inland Empire (Criterion Collection) From Richard A. Barney’s 2009 book David Lynch: Interviews: Barney: I’ve read some...
View ArticleBlu-ray reissue: Gothic (***)
By Dennis Hartley (Originally posted on Digby’s Hullabaloo on February 24, 2024) Gothic (BFI; Region ‘B’ locked) OK, full disclosure. In my 2012 review of Guy Maddin’s Keyhole, I wrote: [Keyhole is}...
View ArticleSIFF 2024: The Primevals (**1/2)
By Dennis Hartley Stop-motion animator David Allen (The Howling, Q the Winged Serpent, Willow, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, et.al.) originally conceived this film in the 1970s. Live action principal...
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