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DETAILS: The cakes of HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME
The exuberant, gruesome poster for the 1981 slasher film, Happy Birthday to Me, depicts a young man about to be impaled in the throat with a shish kebab. Above this image, the words: "John will never eat shish kebab again." You're not buying a ticket to
Cold Ones
I have been to a movie theater just for the AC. I have bounced from cafe to bookstore to a second bookstore just for the AC. I have spent entire afternoons working in our bedroom because it's the one room in our place with AC. I have spent
FAST moves in all directions
As I write this, there are no reviews on Rotten Tomatoes for Rob Tregenza's latest film, Fast. On Metacritic, there are two. I know it screened for several days at MoMA in New York, one night in Los Angeles with Acropolis, and then a three-day mid-week
I tried but ultimately did not kill the pasta
There's an October heatwave coming in a couple days and the forecast says it's going last more than a week. These are the meteorological vicissitudes of Los Angeles. I won't be cooking unless it's at 5am for a cold dinner late in