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Top 10s
About
Interviews
Essays
Reviews
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Themes
Top 10s
About
A Gal ‘Gunslinger’? Oh My Stars and Garters…
Junk Food Cinema Natalie Bauer 8/16/23 Junk Food Cinema Natalie Bauer 8/16/23

A Gal ‘Gunslinger’? Oh My Stars and Garters…

A harbinger of Le Borg’s The Dalton Girls, Roger Corman’s Gunslinger clouds the commonly rigid gendered rules of westerns.

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Why ‘White Water Summer’ Got Lost in the Woods
Junk Food Cinema Natalie Bauer 7/30/23 Junk Food Cinema Natalie Bauer 7/30/23

Why ‘White Water Summer’ Got Lost in the Woods

Huddled between coming-of-age melodrama, vacation fun, and back-country suspense, it’s not difficult to identify why White Water Summer struggled to find its core audience.

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‘But I’m A Cheerleader’ Puts the Camp in Conversion Camp
Junk Food Cinema Natalie Bauer 6/15/23 Junk Food Cinema Natalie Bauer 6/15/23

‘But I’m A Cheerleader’ Puts the Camp in Conversion Camp

Jamie Babbit’s 1999 comedy works to preserve its goofy tenor amidst bleak themes.

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Camp, Punk, and Goth-Rock Galore in ‘Repo! The Genetic Opera’
Junk Food Cinema Natalie Bauer 5/15/23 Junk Food Cinema Natalie Bauer 5/15/23

Camp, Punk, and Goth-Rock Galore in ‘Repo! The Genetic Opera’

Despite a wild storyline and all-star lineup, Repo! has not one trace of sarcasm, self-consciousness, or so much as the smallest amount of external context.

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BMX Stunts and Budding Romance? That’s So ‘Rad’
Junk Food Cinema Natalie Bauer 4/13/23 Junk Food Cinema Natalie Bauer 4/13/23

BMX Stunts and Budding Romance? That’s So ‘Rad’

The culmination of ‘80s cinema is, of course, the BMX dance routine in the 1986 coming-of-age sports movie Rad.

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