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A list of out-there animated classics featuring Watership Down, Fritz the Cat, and The Dirdy Birdy! at GreenCine.

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A look at some of the conceptual and aesthetic risks of bringing the written word to the screen, as found in this article at GreenCine.

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Read about the serious spiritual issues at play in Abel Ferrara’s film Bad Lieutenant (1992) at Somebody Hit The Lights!

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Check out this piece at Somebody Hit The Lights! about the use of the morally defunct word “retard,” featuring crusading letters to a local periodical, and a wonderful, Oscar winning film about living as a mentally challenged man, Bestboy (1980).

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Click if you dare!  Dispatches about the latest in adult entertainment innovations from Unfettered Letters.

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Click right here to read haikus by corporate folks struggling with their spirituality.  Prepared to be moved.

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Go here to find out what happened to one of childhood’s most beloved neurotics!

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guru.greencine.com/archives/2010/06/lord_save_us_fr.html

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The Mystical Dashboard: Primer and the Frontiers of the Low Budget (originally appeared on the now defunct Some Other Magazine website in 2004.) By Simon Augustine When I was about seven, I went through a period of rapt fascination with “drugstore magic” – trick cards, plastic contraptions that pushed a spike through a quarter or […]

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Surprisingly Spiritual Films #1: Elite Squad: Badasses Passing Through, First Section By Simon Paul Augustine “When you pass through, no one can pin you down, no one can call you back.” – Yung-An In Rio de Janeiro ghettos are ruled by two things: stunning poverty, and drug lords who offer potential escape from a pervasive […]

Glitter. A horrible biblical allegory. The disco apocalypse. Stop the boogie just long enough to read the full review of the film “The Apple,” originally published on the website for Stop Smiling Magazine in September 2004. This was the first review I wrote and inspired and Indian hot-tub salesman from California who is a huge fan of The Apple to become friends and dueling critics. To you, Melfy Nazrahad.

The introduction and first part of the list of the 25 most disturbing movies of all time at GreenCine.

The third section of Minds In Progress: Mental Illness In American Cinema. Horror movies!

Part Two of Minds In Progress: Mental Illness In American Cinema at GreenCine: Dramas and Documentaries.

This is the first part of an article I first had published on GreenCine, Minds In Progress: Mental Illness in American Cinema. It is followed by three subsequent sections covering the milieus of: Dramas and Docs, Horrors, and Comedies. It touches films such as One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, Good Will Hunting, Ordinary People, The Exorcist, Coming Apart, The Ruling Class, Harold and Maude, among many others.

A slightly negative review of Catherine Breillat’s film Fat Girl and a funny barrage of commentary.

A review of the surreal horror film Cronos for Not Coming To A Theatre Near You’s 31 Days of Horror.

A look at Deathdream, a lost horror film wonder from the mid 70s that serves as a wonderfully apt and creepy Vietnam (and Iraq) war allegory.

At GreenCine, a list of some of the most moving Buddhist movies.

A look at the “New Wave of French Horror” for Greencine back in 2008. The article was cited in Wikipedia – the big time!

A look at the documentary film Operation Filmmaker at the website Not Coming To A Theatre Near You.

An article for GreenCine about depictions of writers and poets in cinema, from Bukowski to Neruda to Walt and back again.