A Hell of a Movie: in praise of the underseen THE THIRD MIRACLE and a talk with its author, Richard Vetere May 11, 2020.Short and Sweet: Robert Leckington’s 5 MINUTES ALONE May 17, 2020.A 10 year old reviews James Rallison’s THE ODD 1s OUT book and YouTube series May 19, 2020.The Ultimate Road Movie (in 13 Minutes): Myriah Rose Marquez’s UNCOMFORTABLY COMFORTABLE May 21, 2020.Brian Weber, A Bartender’s Journey, and COCKTAILS MADE SIMPLE May 22, 2020.Throwbacks: CHINESE HERCULES and BRUCE’S NINJA SECRET on Blu-ray from Dark Force! May 26, 2020.
Let it Snow! David Lee Madison’s WIT’S END is out now On Demand.THE LEGENDARY CHIEF ZABU NOW STREAMS! ZACK NORMAN AND NEIL COHEN TALK ABOUT THEIR LOST UNDERGROUND CLASSIC! August 21, 2020.From Ozploitation to Skinemax, with George Lazenby, Nicole Kidman and a Leprechaun on the Way: A Review of Brian Trenchard-Smith’s Terrific ADVENTURES IN THE B-MOVIE TRADE October 18, 2020.“Spat” Oktan, special effects wiz and the King of Conventions, Has Published His First Novel! January 11, 2021.This most commonly refers to a type of dance, but it can also mean “trickery,” and in fact it is a variation of the term hocus-pocus. Unrelatedly, pokey shows up in the term hokey-pokey. It’s most often applied to drivers who we think are driving too slow. When we describe someone as pokey to mean they’re moving slowly, it’s not a nice thing to say. Similar synonyms are slammer, clink, can, joint-all of which are also usually used with the. Either way, the word sounds a bit old-timey and is typically used to be funny. In this sense, pokey can refer to a jail or a prison: the coppers can send you to the pokey for the night or the judge can lock you up in the pokey for life. The origin of the word pokey as a slang term for jail isn’t certain, but it might be based on the word pogey, referring to a type of institution for housing poor people. It uses the same sense of the word poke that’s seen in the noun slowpoke, referring to a person who moves slowly, as well as the verb phrase poke along, as in If we keep poking along on this project, we’re never going to make any progress. The first records of the word pokey as an adjective come from the 1800s.
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