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Midnight Video

An archive of two chaps, a laptop and a mic attempting to unearth the lost, forgotten and overlooked in cinema.

“Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.” - Pauline Kael

Midnight Video 29: Do or Die, The Linguini Incident and The Headless Eyes

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It's another month in 2012 and here is another instalment of Midnight Video boldly going where (probably) not many podcasts have been before.  Show 29 brings the boobs, Bowie and (eye) balls to your delicate auditory systems.
Andy Sidaris was a purveyor of of the kind of films that Albert Brooks claimed to have produced in Drive and we thought it was high time to appraise one of his 'guns, girls and g-strings' adventures. Expect big hair, skimpy swimsuits and a surprising turn from Daniel-san's sensei as an international bad guy and shiatsu master in Do Or Die.
We then come to the penultimate film in our 'British rock stars in the movies' season and who better to finish it off than the man who fell to earth and landed in a New York bar trying to get a green card.  Yep, that's right, tonight we see David Bowie and Rosanna Arquette embroiled in The Linguini Incident.
And we round things off with the tale of a tortured artist whose penchant for eyeballs and perspex make for an interesting shop display.  Exploitation and art house collide in the unique and intriguing The Headless Eyes.

Phurious Phil