Article Archive for February 2024
By Jack Daniel Betz
I saw this coming. Maybe I’m just a killjoy but I always thought, even back when no one could shut the fuck up about it, that “Infinity Guitar” and the rest of …
The premise of Man in a Suitcase has an American rouge intelligence agent, banned from the US, working freelance out of the UK. From 1967, an ITC production with one of the coolest 60s themes …
This week’s FPH Podcast delves deep into the world of identity politics, our own age perceptions, how much better hard drugs were back in the day, and the wonder that is Tim Dorsey. Free Press …
By Alex Wukman
For most people in Houston performance art is a little like a mountain lion: easy to read about but hard to see. The last time performance art received any notice in …
The word on Bullhead is must see. A nominee for Best Foreign Film this entry from Belgium deals with low level criminals, growth hormones for bovines and humans, and draws the line that separates people …
Obviously you’re not going to approach a movie like Journey 2 The Mysterious Island with the same expectation as a new Wes Anderson film or the latest art film du jour, to use a couple …
The depth and length to which Mysteries of Lisbon goes to tell its story will impress the most hardened film esthete even while bowling over the casual movie maven. Mysteries of Lisbon could kindly be …
By Jack Daniel Betz
I’ve been waiting a good, long, time to hear more from APTBS, ever since I caught them opening for The Big Pink two years ago. The Brooklyn band hasn’t released much …
Comin’ At Ya 3D certainly isn’t a masterpiece of cinema and yet the film offers some of the most audacious 3D footage committed to film. When Comin’ At Ya 3D was released in 1981 it …
This Week’s Featured Show
American Sharks (7″ release)
with
Psychic Palms
Bang Bangz
Roky Moon DJ
@ Fitzgerald’s
OK let’s just get this out of the way here. This 7″ is called Weed Wizard! WEED WIZARD! Damn if that isn’t the best …