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Greetings Film Fiends and welcome to John Doe's Film Blog. 30 years of dedicated celluloid obsession has meant that I have seen a few films. Drawing attention to some of the lesser discussed gems that I love. Cult classics, obscure curios and quality genre pictures. This blogs purpose is to translate some of my passion for these films and with luck, inspire you the reader to go check em out.

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Brace yourself for a Bitch Slap

August 4th 2008 00:01

The Bullets, Brawls and Breasts of Bitch Slap

Bitch Slap Poster - Prepare to be Slapped

Harking back to the days of Russ Meyer, Roger Corman and other sexploitation era pioneers comes a modern day self aware salute. Inspired by cult classics like Faster Pussycat Kill Kill and Dragstrip Girls, the official Bitch Slap website begins its synopsis: “Bitch Slap is a post modern, thinking man’s throwback to the “B” Movie/exploitation films of the 1950’s-70’s as well as a loving, sly parody of the same.”

Bitch Slap Screenshots

John Doe didn’t need to read any further than that to know this was his favourite flavour of trash cinema. This flesh for fantasy story is about a trio of full chested, double barrelled vixens on a mission to extort cash from a drug lord. The whole thing goes pear shaped when deranged villains, violent crooks and twisted morality enter the equation.

Trixie put a spell on you

Structured for a plot collision in the vengeful finale, there is a second story told in reverse character flashbacks, Memento style. Bitch Slap is written and Directed by Rick Jacobson and Eric Gruendemann. (Click HERE to see a video interview with Jacobson and Gruendemann)

Careful, Camero causes pain

Providing the hard bodied, moist torsos in front of the camera are Erin Cummins playing Hel the corporate brains behind the crime. Julia Voth as the erotic temptress Trixie and America Olivo is the ass kicking, drug runner Camero.

Hel hath no Fury

Searching through their names on imdb.com these girls credits extend to beautiful woman #1 on How I Met Your Mother. Speaking of B grade, Hercules Kevin Sorbo and Xena Lucy Lawless also show up, though JD has never been a fan of either show.

Pinky uses the shadows

The trailer certainly shows signs of Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill and though no dialogue is revealed, if you go to the official site you will find a few words of wise female empowerment.

Yeah, you want to click on the Picture to see larger version

Rated PG - DD For Pervasive Naughtiness. With a Parental Advisory on Guns Jugs and True Love, this is a man bashing girl power treat that this boy is lining up to ogle.

JD's hand are up.

Images courtesy of www.impawards.com

Kick back with a beer and soak in the Red Band Trailer for Bitch Slap

Behind The Scenes of Bitch Slap

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36 great Noir Films

August 23rd 2007 02:56

Guns, broads and betrayal or 36 ways great to die the Noir way

Noir Street

Dark alleys, femme fatales and twisting plots that end in major and minor tragedies, it must be a Noir. Defined by its manipulation of shadows and dark brooding atmosphere these are underground stories of the criminal mind.

Intricately weaved, predominantly centring around a lone tough guy P.I or a complete sap who gets turned rotten to the core by lust. A heist gone wrong and the best friends sells out his buddy, good men seek vengeance, all tell tale signs you are trapped in the cinematic land of noir.

The Maltese Falcon

John Doe still remembers staying at his grandma’s when from about 4 years old and watching old Humphrey Bogart films like:
-The Maltese Falcon
-The Big Sleep
-The Dark Passage.

Hardboiled stories that always seemed to surprise with their intricately weaved deceptions, the black atmosphere of impending doom captivating the young Doe. Usually to the strains of moody Jazz score everyone smoked, pimps, cops and hoods underscored by a moral ambiguity and inferred eroticism.

The world weary male lead voice over always ready with a stone wall retort or tough guy insult, the cool thief with the plan who doesn’t speak unless imperative. The women, never to be trusted, sexual predators with greed in their veins, if not they are victims of unspeakable abuse or callous psychological damage.

This was the classic era that became the foundation for an aura that would permeate into:

-Robert Alderich’s Kiss Me Deadly
-Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard
-John Huston’s The Ashpahlt Jungle
-Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing
-The Postman Always Rings Twice
-Orson Welles A Touch of Evil
-Jacques Tourneur’s Out of The Past
-Otto Preminger’s Laura
-Henry Hathaways Kiss of Death
-D.O.A.
-Robert Siodmak The Killers
-Carol Reed's The 3rd Man

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Out of The Past

Revisionist Noir

-Robert Altman The Long Goodbye
-Hammett
-Alan Parker’s Angel Heart
-Mike Hodges Croupier
-John Boorman’s Point Blank
-Coen Brothers Blood Simple and The Man Who Wasn’t There
-Rian Johnson’s Brick
-Paul Verhoven's The 4th Man

Croupier

Modern Noir
-Peter Medak’s Romeo is Bleeding
-John Dahl’s Red Rock West and The Last Seduction
-Lawrence Kasdan’s Body Heat
-Roman Polanski’s Chinatown

The Last Seduction

Tech-Noir
-James Cameron’s The Terminator
-Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner
-Alex Proyas’ Dark City

Dark City

Foreign Noir
Jules Dassin Rififfi
Jean Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai and Bob La Flambuer
Akira Kurosawa’s Stray Dog

Le samourai

Not a definitive list, but certainly a great place to start. You may wonder why JD chose such an odd number as 36 for his list, well he didn’t know where to conclude, so once the titles he loved stopped spewing from his head he decided that was where to stop…..THE END

A cool little Noir compilation with smokin dialogue