REVIEW: Porno [2020]

C.B.T.L. It’s the summer of 1992 and both Encino Man and A League of Their Own are playing on the big screen. This is a good thing for Mr. Pike (Bill Phillips) as it means he has two PG movies to place on the marquee for families to enjoy. Anything raunchier or more risqué than that might prove difficult for a god-fearing man such as him—a local figure who preaches the word of the Lord to the Christian teens for whom he provides a place to work, pray, and confide…

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REVIEW: Christine [1983]

You have nothing to lose but your virginity. It shouldn’t be surprising to see parallels between John Carpenter‘s Christine and today considering we live in an era where phrases like “boys will be boys” are used to full stop sanitize the increasingly deplorable actions of young white American men. Back in the 1970s when this film (and Stephen King‘s novel on which it is adapted) is set, we would laugh at the so-called “locker room” talk of teenage boys sexualizing their female classmates and knowingly chiding the nerdy kids chiming…

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