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	<title>The B-Masters Cabal</title>
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	<description>Meh.  I&#039;ve seen worse.</description>
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		<title>Touch this.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Max Allan Collins&#8217; one-man play Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life delivers.  You get the feeling that, even if other characters were present on stage, they&#8217;d be practically unnoticeable beside Ness.
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		<link>http://www.b-masters.com/2010/03/10/touch-this/</link>
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		<title>A Turkey of a Bond Rip-Off</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Altin Cocuk (Golden Boy)
Funny thing about the James Bond movies is that, while they are models of conspicuous consumption, their basic tropes are so much just that –- basic –- that one could recreate them in a backyard home movie and still have them be easily identifiable. Make your bald headed uncle wear his shirt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.b-masters.com/2010/03/08/a-turkey-of-a-bond-rip-off/</link>
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		<title>Send more paramedics!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD
&#8220;Return of the Living Dead&#8221; is one of the movies that my teenage self considered awesome that has withstood the test of time.  Counter to the movie&#8217;s oppressive feeling of dread is a ghoulish sense of humor. &#8220;Send more paramedics&#8221; is a perfect example.  The zombies are preying upon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.b-masters.com/2010/03/07/send-more-paramedics/</link>
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		<title>Love me tender</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While waiting for an interlibrary loan to help my research into my next new piece, I thought I&#8217;d do a little house-keeping:


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First up, I have recovered, revised, re-formatted and added a few screenshots to:
THE DEVIL BAT (1940)
In which Bela Lugosi, kindly village doctor by day, mad scientist by night, disposes of his enemies by (i) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.b-masters.com/2010/03/05/love-me-tender/</link>
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		<title>Defective detective movie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ When I was younger, I was fascinated by the private eye profession. In television shows about private detectives, they always seemed to have a colorful life. They would charge fees running up to several hundred dollars an hour &#8211; which seemed like a fortune to me as a youngster. TV private detectives also always [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.b-masters.com/2010/03/04/defective-detective-movie/</link>
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		<title>Charlie Band&#8217;s making crap faster than I can review it.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Skull Heads (2009) &#8212; A creepy family in an Italian castle confronts the outside world when the teenage daughter falls for a handsome film director. Also, because this is a Charles Band flick, there are killer dolls running around.
Related: I goofed.  Reader Revenge Month is in April. It&#8217;ll be sort of like the time lag [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.b-masters.com/2010/03/03/charlie-bands-making-crap-faster-than-i-can-review-it/</link>
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		<title>Well, SOMEONE has to review Beastmaster</title>
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BEASTMASTER
The success of this first wave of sword and sorcery films paved the way for a second wave. Amongst this crop was The Beastmaster. The Beastmaster, like the others was not a runaway hit when it was released. To be fair though, it was up against some pretty stiff competition, including ET – the Extra [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.b-masters.com/2010/02/28/well-someone-has-to-review-beastmaster/</link>
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		<title>It turns out I don&#8217;t like Gor flicks, either</title>
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Once upon a time there was a college professor named John Norman.  He wrote a large batch of paperback novels about a fantasy planet named Gor, whose primary trait was the literal sexual slavery of women and their ultimate fulfillment therein.  (The men seemed happy with it too.)  This  inspired first a real-life subculture, then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.b-masters.com/2010/02/28/it-turns-out-i-dont-like-gor-flicks-either/</link>
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		<title>Lady Gaga&#8217;s male fan club has gone too far this time.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[STAR ODYSSEY
If there is one genre that can be compared to low budget Italian zombie flicks, it must be bargain budget Italian space operas.  Both of them are the mental equivalents of $.29 frozen burritos, and both of them cause my wife serious anguish (as do cheap frozen burritos).  Katie is more likely to complain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.b-masters.com/2010/02/28/lady-gagas-male-fan-club-has-gone-too-far-this-time/</link>
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		<title>Well, there&#8217;s blood and there&#8217;s thunder, but it really doesn&#8217;t fit the theme&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned in my review for The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (1970) the love/hate relationship I have with Dario Argento and his “visuals first, storytelling second” approach to filmmaking. That goes double for Argento’s progenitor Mario Bava. Bava was incredibly influential in his use of color and framing, using his background as a painter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.b-masters.com/2010/02/25/well-theres-blood-and-theres-thunder-but-it-really-doesnt-fit-the-theme/</link>
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