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What’s New on Bostonhassle.com: From the Music Section
GALLERY: BATTLEMODE EP RELEASE SHOW AT THE CRYSTAL BALLROOM 9/2/22
- Clay Lomneth
GALLERY: THE PAUSES, CLIFFORD, AND QUIET LIGHT AT O’BRIENS ON 8/31/22
- Marcus Howard
What’s New on Bostonhassle.com: From the Film Section
GO TO: PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) DIR. JOHN WATERS
“By all logic, Pink Flamingos, director John Waters’ infamous 1972 “exercise in bad taste,” should have lost some of its power by now. The internet, with its veritable firehose of unavoidable shocking content, has numbed and desensitized all but the most sheltered; people who were born the day Goatse* spread his cheeks have now graduated from college. Waters, once the stringy-haired enfant terrible of the world of underground cinema, has since been accepted fully into the mainstream, a cuddly elder-queer ambassador who can always be counted on for an outrageous bon mot. The film– which celebrated its fiftieth anniversary this past spring– is in the Criterion Collection, for crying out loud. One would think that shifting social mores would have long since rendered this midnight movie classic as shocking as a Betty Boop cartoon.”
- Oscar Goff
REVIEW: HONK FOR JESUS. SAVE YOUR SOUL. (2022) DIR. ADAMMA EBO
“Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. is based off Adamma Ebo’s 2018 short film of the same name, which is available to view on YouTube. The allure can be easily identified; even having seeing the full-length version prior, the raw energy that attracted producers like Jordan Peele and Daniel Kaluuya into expanding the satirical exploration of celebrity servants of God through big(ger)-budget flair is palpable. Most of the scenes, if not everything, from the short film had been replicated: Pastor Lee-Curtis cursing on camera after stepping on gum with his expensive Italian loafers, his wife Trinitie’s simmering “Bless your heart” showdown with a former congregant of their church, the passionate delivery of the “God is not in the business of making perfect men” line. In this new allotted time, Ebo stretches the high-sung hubris and backroads self-denial of her characters and their antics into a sort of parody that wades in emotional depth and self-destructive duty. Seeing the original sermon is one thing, but seeing HFJSYS in its 102-minute glory is a renewed derivative, even if we’ve heard the lines before.”
- Anna Hoang