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LONGLEGS: Teenagers Can go to a Parent-Free Screaming (Screening) in New York, This Friday, With Bloody Nuns

One of the things that we’d come to expect from the Alamo Drafthouse in its early days were excellent promotional screenings for horror and other genre flicks. There was something about having to walk through a room full of flies on the way to watch Amityville, or something like it. Founder Tim League bought a box of fly eggs for the occassion and waited too long to open the box. They’d all hatched so he literally opened a sealed box of live flies in a close room and it was hilariously catastrophic. Or, there was the time a handful of fans were buried then watched Buried.   As the franchise grew in size those kind of diminished or fell to the wayside but tomorrow in…

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Anime Summer 2024: What We’ve Seen, Liked, and Loved

Summer 2024 began Thursday, June 20, which also marked the launch of Anime Summer 2024, and a subsequent onslaught of shows. In the U.S., where I reside, I have subscriptions to Crunchyroll, which simulcasts many shows that debut on Japanese television networks weekly (29 are due this summer), as well as Netflix, which produces a number of its own shows and tends to drop entire seasons at once. By no means am I an expert on anime, but I am an enthusiast. What I bring here are short reviews of the first season of shows that I am sampling; I’ll leave the second seasons alone for now. A few shows will be added to my watchlist, but after 20 years of sampling, and sometimes devotedly…

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