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Despite the fact that I am familiar with many movie hits of the 80s, the film Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) undeservedly passed me by. Peggy Sue remains one of such underestimated pictures, the popularity…
There is no surfing on Lake Shartash. Only stupid peasants dip their ill-fated larvae into the ice hole. There is surfing off the coast of California. There, boys who do not know sheepskin coats dip…
Covering the work of friends is a hell of a complicated business. It is necessary to maintain a balance between outright flattery and undisguised malice. I'll try to be objective, despite my infernal sense of…
Imagine this picture: you enter a car dealership, and there is a hot rod right in the middle of a huge hall. Brand new and - no matter how amazing it may sound - branded,…
Singer, violinist, songwriter, Texas native and Grammy Award winner Amanda Shires presented her first Christmas album to the public in November 2021. The record is interesting primarily for its original material, and the fact that…
The Internet has long grown into a huge, dimensionless monster, and searching for any information is becoming like trying to find a needle in a haystack. That's why, despite all my efforts, interesting things sometimes…
At the end of November 2021, the German label KEiL Records, with which we have already become friends this fall, released a Christmas mini-album "Stephan Griebel sings Christmas Songs" with a circulation of 333 copies.…
Brian Setzer's first solo album in the last seven years! As in the case of the album by another stray cat, Lee Rocker, the recording of the disc occurred not least due to the widespread…
Dave Alvin, born on 11/11/1955, recorded his eleventh solo album with the characteristic name Eleven Eleven in 2011. In numerology, the prime number 11 is considered very powerful, but we will leave such interpretations to…
There is a video recording of the song Strange Fruit, made in 1959. There, Billie Holiday, standing at the threshold of Death, as if Her faithful messenger, plunges the receptive viewer/listener into the inky darkness…
Legendary Canadian bard Leonard Cohen passed away exactly 5 years ago, on November 7, 2016, at the age of 82. In 1975, the famous poet presented his own cocktail recipe called Red Needle. If you…
I never get tired of repeating that Stephen King is a terribly overrated writer. But, by some irony of fate, it is Comrade King who is perhaps the most famous creator, in whose works from…
Have you tried hammering a square peg into a round hole? Especially when it's out of size. When the hat is not on Senka, the uniform is not on the rank. Square Peg Round Hole…
The elite of society is most successful at pretending to be the elite of society. While husbands with dignified gestures drop cigar ash on the weak of this world, wives are busy with other important…
The icon of the 80s neo-rockabilly, Dave Phillips, formerly of the Blue Cats, who named his rockabilly band after the 1958 film starring Gene Vincent, is returning. Famous for his collaboration with Mark Harman from…
Ireland is an island green with the magic of the Hill People, full of the manuscripts of great writers. The island of the first slaves of the British Empire, the explosions in Ulster and Catholic…
I first noticed Sam Elliott in The Big Lebowski, where his epic character The Stranger appears to Jeff Bridges' Dude as if in a narcotic half-reality. That gray-haired guy with a huge mustache and a…
Ksenia Antropova is a model with red hair. Born in Kazakhstan, birthday is February 27, 1997. Model parameters are 80-61-92, height 164 cm, weight 49 kg. At the moment, she has no contracts with modeling…
The leaden waters of the Baltic Sea are washed ashore by sprats in cans, the Peipsi tribes by ferries. The Peipsi tribes embark on ruinous raids on the "glass houses" and pubs of the nearest…
This story is as old as a turtle in a New York sewer: in the sixties, walking with long hair in Texas meant learning a cartoon ostrich run from local coyotes. Contrary to the opinion…
Who would have thought that the retirement of the Cheyenne leader could turn into a headache comparable to saving Private Ryan. The Western Hostiles (Hostiles, 2017) will try to tell us how it turned out…
Henry Blythe Halicki was an unusual man. He had a good business, he had enough money for dozens of cars and at least for all the equipment that was required for the filming of the…
Paulina Lea Rose is an American model from Miami, and Jessica Martin is from there. Born in Munich, date of birth March 16, 1996 (Pisces). Height 180 cm, model parameters 81-61-86, dark hair, brown eyes.…
Charlie Crockett. This musician deserved an article on our website last year when he released his album Welcome To Hard Times, recorded before the pandemic, but unlike Lee Rocker's post-pandemic work, Charlie's music is much…
In the 1930s, the grass was greener and the air cleaner, for objective reasons. On both sides of the Pacific Ocean, the USSR and the USA built, in their own way, colossal powers. Prohibition and…
The action of the movie Cry-Baby (Cry Baby, 1990) takes place in Baltimore, Maryland. The year is 1954. There are decent Clean boys-girls studying at the local high school (The Squares), but the drop of…
Stuart Stern, screenwriter of Rebel Without a Cause: "This is the story of a generation that became adults overnight." The action of the film covers 24 hours in the lives of three teenagers: Jim, Judy…
Hannie Caulder Hannie Caulder (1971) is a British western starring Raquel Welch with quotes from spaghetti westerns by Sergio Leone, it can also be attributed to exploitation films. And of course this is the story…
Model and actress Sadie Newman is a very beautiful thin girl with delicate features. Date of birth: December 11, 1993 (Sagittarius), Devon, United Kingdom. Dark hair, green eyes, height 178 cm. Model parameters 86-63-89. Her…
Sometimes they come back. A little Corsican sets sail from Elba to bring his Old Guard to ruin. The Ouroboros, imagining himself to be a puppy, grabs his own tail with his teeth. Rotted corpses…
A cozy Friday afternoon movie of the kind that was often shown in Russia in the late 90s. Innocent pranks of a provincial American city. Cars with a needle, cover girls. Creating relationships and figuring…
In 1968, the novel "Conagher" was published from the pen of the recognized writer of westerns Louis Lamour, and in 1991 Reynaldo Villalobos made a film of the same name for American television based on…
A working-class town in south Wales is a great place to have a decaliter in the pub after a hard day, another local beer parody for the return of King Arthur. A place where Kruner's…
How does mockumentary differ from documentary? Probably because in the first case it is somehow fiction. John Bronco is a man and a steamboat. And a reader, and a reaper, and a doodler. A national…
The children of Perestroika learned the horror of impending capitalism thanks to pay-cable television, which broadcast cartoons about an echid mouse, an anarcho-syndicalist rabbit gnawing carrots and a tired basset hound. Those who had done…
"A bootleg full of surprises" is what you can call this boot-shaped island state in Oceania, although some prefer the traditional New Zealand. Maori dance brutally here, Kiwis sneak mercilessly at the worm in the…
A beautiful girl whose last name doesn't sound very euphonious in Russian: this is Myla Dalbesio, an American model. Someone writes "Mila" instead of "Mail", but this is the wrong option. Mila was born on…
The Birth of The Blues Brothers, Blues Brothers (1980). Dan Aykroyd (Elwood) has long been fond of the blues. He sang and played the harmonica. It is difficult to understand from the appearance whether a…
The heroine of this article was casually mentioned by me in the material about the most significant of all Darryl Starbird's cars, the Predicta. In the process of writing that article, I found out that…
The old profurset, which was drunk back in the days of Prohibition, contains a motel where moths with cameras flew through the left wing. Sensation: a special copy will soon arrive at a fashionable hotel…
It's not easy to find a good witch. In the old days, even the coals did not have time to cool down, as the venerable crowd dragged a fresh charmer, suspected of eating toad broth…
Patsy and Loretta (2019) is a biopic about the friendship of two women, country singers Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn. The film was shot for the Lifetime TV channel by director Callie Khouri, who at…
Model and actress Sarah Stevens (Sarah Elizabeth Stephens, sometimes her last name is written as Stephens). Date of birth: June 7, 1990. Height 178 cm. The model parameters are 86/64/91. The eyes are brown. She…
The Russians dropped a bomb on the United States in 1957, Elvis became not only the king of rock and roll, but also the real autocrat of the only surviving city - the Lost Vegas.…
It is generally accepted that hot rods ruled the streets of the United States until the advent of muscle cars, and somehow no one thinks about the fact that muscular cars also quite often drove…
Sardonically bright sun, sarcastically Pinkfloyd's "Mopeu" - the scenery of an ancient tragedy, where the pagan rascality of the rich and hangers-on in a Californian villa turns into a nightmarish farce: Gordon, the manager and…
The latest release of 2021 is Harpabilly Harp'n'roll! Our compatriot Maxim Evseev is hiding under the pseudonym Rolling Camel. Maxim has been playing the harmonica for 10 years and focuses on blues musicians such as…
Cadillac Records (Cadillac Records, 2008) is a movie that came out when I was starting to get interested in the blues. He became my first blues guide: Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Jimmy Rogers, Howlin' Wolf,…
Lee Rocker's new album Gather Round was released on January 22, 2021. The name seems to be taken from the first line of the famous "protest song" of the main American minstrel. But the album…
An 8-episode Marvel miniseries on the Disney Channel+ Wanda/Vision (WandaVision, 2021) launched on January 15th. Wanda Maximoff and Vision are heroes from the Marvel cinematic universe. The first 2 episodes of Vandavision are stylizations of…
In the clip of the Rebel Highway TV series, we have the last tenth review left: Shake Rattle And Rock (1994) - a remake of the 1956 film. Susan (Renee Zellweger) and a couple of…
We continue the series of photos with the Australian beauty Anthea Page. This girl has nothing to be shy about, she has an ideal figure: with a height of 173 cm, her model parameters are…
In 2020, there have been many decent music releases in root music. Here's one of them that really got me hooked. The West German band Hack Mack Jackson from Dusseldorf released a mini-album Low Budget…
Another film from the Rebel Highway series is Girls In Prison (Girls In Prison, 1994). A detective story based on the rockabilly standard of Jody Reynolds. Director John McNaughton, who had shot Mad Dog and…
Today is the beginning of winter and our girls' section is 100% summer Anthea Page. Her date of birth is July 27, 1993 (Brisbane), zodiac sign Leo. She is called Miss Australia. A blonde sunflower…
A Gunfight is a Gunfight (1971) western drama by Lamont Johnson about two aging shooters, played by Kirk Douglas and Johnny Cash. Both are legends dear to the Russian heart. Johnny because Cash, Kirk because…
Many music lovers agree that Go Cat Go, which existed for only a few years, from 1989 to 1993, is the most underrated rockabilly band. With this material, we begin the series with a publication…
Despite the fact that I don't really like garage rock, I liked the album Grease & Oil, and immediately after listening to it, I went through the discography of the album's author, Lee Thornton, also…
An eight-episode series of Monsterland (Monsterland) launched on October 2, 2020 on the Hulu channel. The author of the screenplay is Mary Laws based on the collection of short stories by Nathan Ballingrud "Monsters of…
Back in the days when you couldn't draw anything on a computer, Drag-U-La probably surprised thousands of viewers of The Munsters series. But no matter how iconic the grobo-dragster is, it seems to me that…
South African model Jessica Lee Buchanan was born in Cape Town. Date of birth: February 22, 1992 (Pisces zodiac sign). She is 167 cm tall and has blue eyes. She has worked with brands such…
The film The Girl from the penal colony (1994) directed by Jonathan Kaplan was filmed for the TV series Rebel Highway. This is the eponymous remake of the 1957 film Reform School Girl. Pretty girl…
We continue to review the Rebellious Highway series of TV movies and Confessions of a Sorority Girls (1994) is next in line - however, everyone is confused, is it a confession of one girl or…
Shooting of American fashion model Maila Dalbecio for Sports Illustrated magazine, in the Swimsuit 2020 category. Due to our mentality, it is difficult for us to understand why swimwear is advertised not at sea, but…
The Devil All The Time, 2020 (The Devil Is The Devil All The Time) is a film by Antonio Campos in the genre of American Gothic. The action begins in Ohio in 1957, then moves…
I have loved the anime genre for years...twelve years ago, however, I rarely watch it, but accurately. In one of the reviews of animated series for high school age, I drew attention to Dorohedoro (2020),…
Who is this guy with the Clarkkent glasses? What kind of cheeky trio is with him? The guitarist shows that smile that hangs in the air for a long time after his departure, the implacable…
Tahnee Atkinson is a model from Perth, Australia. Date of birth 31.01.1992 (Aquarius). Her eyes are blue, her hair is dark, and she is 176 cm tall. In 2009, at the age of 17, she…
And let the British think that the greatest detective lived in London, at 221b Baker Street, any thoughtful viewer has long known that the best Holmes in the world lives at 22 Yauniela Street in…
To be honest, I didn't think I'd be writing about this game. But both Cool World and Who Framed Roger Rabbit are already present on our website, and therefore it would simply be wrong not…
The children of the space power dreamed of flying into space. Not because it was rich and prestigious - the children wanted to see the moon up close, they firmly knew that Solaris was only…
Shhh... 1958. Now you know the PIN code of my bank card. What do Odessa of the Ukrainian SSR and New York of the USA have in common? The Jews. And, although Aunt Faya from…
The night wind mercilessly throws raindrops through the black windows, the branches dance in a frenzy, trying to bare themselves, throwing off the disgusting dresses of foliage. It's like they can hear some other kind…
The action of the movie Cruise (Cruise, 2018) takes place in the summer in New York in 1987. A young American of Italian descent, Gio Fortunato (Spencer Boldman), lives carefree and fun: he participates in…
Ralph Bakshi's only full-length feature film is Cool and the Crazy (Cool and the Crazy, 1994) from the Rebel Highway series, his next work after the Cool World. In fact, the name should be translated…
Have you ever heard of Trials? This is such an ancient Java toy that could be run both on a computer and on a mobile phone. She was very popular at the time... Well, or…
This is the first film by Tom DiCillo, who, before becoming a director, worked as a cameraman for Jim Jarmusch, so Johnny Suede (Johnny Suede, 1991) was called another-about-Jarmusch-movie. The main role is played by…
She is incorrectly called Tess Jantschek, but she is still Tess Jantschek, a beautiful blonde with blue eyes. Born and raised in London. She has been working as a model since 2013. Her model parameters…
It seems to me that no game is better suited for opening the video game section on our website than Full Throttle from 1995. It's classic. It's about bikers. It's full of rock. And she…
Cool World (Cool World, 1992) is a film by Ralph Bakshi about an artist who draws comics while in prison and before being released discovers that the characters he drew exist in a fantasy world…
The amazing thing is, this movie once passed me by, and I discovered it for myself only now. Ben Bolt completed the work of Harold Becker, having completed the 1987 film The Big Town (Big…
Paul McCartney is dead. That's what Tim Harper said in 1969. And even Paul found it difficult to get away with it: there are dozens of proofs of this on the cover of Sergeant Pepper.…
May everyone have a sea this summer. The exemplary French model Taylor Lachaye (@taylorlashae, 880k subscribers) is always popular. Today we are publishing her shoots in swimwear by Australian brands Wanderlust Swim and Fella Swim.…
By 1969, psychedelics began to lose ground, succumbing to the onslaught of heavy rock and heavy drugs. Tim Leary, the main prophet and consumer of acid, is running for governor of California with Irish zeal…
The most violent film from the TV series about the Rebellious Highway is perhaps the Motorcycle Gang (Motorcycle Gang, 1994). Actually, director John Milius is known for filming military dramas, a bias towards right-wing extremism…
Chew! What kind of wild sounds are shaking the old barn on this stuffy night? Did old man Ebenezer's lawn mower finally get to the owner? Or did the Texas Friendship chainsaw run over the…
Starting the Rebel Highway project, producer Lou Arkoff wondered: "What if Rebel Without Cause was filmed today? He would definitely be darker, sexier and more dangerous." So the movie Dragstrip Girl (Dragstrip Girl, 1994) is…
Без всяких сомнений: Dragon Lord выглядит жутко металически и отправляет прямиком в 80-ые. От одного взгляда на этот автомобиль так и тянет врубить альбом Holy Diver или что-нибудь похожее - убедитесь в этом сами, взглянув…
In the 60s, not only muscle cars appeared in the American automotive industry: vans took to the road for the first time. And the people liked the new four-wheeled beast, as a result of which…
No, it's not the moon... Not a reflection of a light bulb in a dark window... Sometimes it resembles a saucer from my grandmother's tea set, sometimes it resembles Comrade Fidel's cigar. This Is An…
Night is a great time to rummage in the dump of consciousness. Last year's delirious delirium, images of a three-day binge, unspoken idiotic jokes - there is a use for everything, you just have to…
The idea of putting the largest engine in the smallest frame, and then riding on what turned out, probably appeared along with the first car on Earth. So, I think I won't surprise you much…
The night capital... Magomayev sings inaudibly in the ever-fading sky. Leviathans of socialist realism, golems of Zurab Rkatsiteli, temples risen from decay scratch the clouds. Tiny clubs, pubs and eateries bravely lean against the footsteps…
This hot rod has been around since at least 2004, and it belongs to those cars that persistently remain in the shadows. Fortunately, it has been put up for sale at least three times in…
Good evening, dear friends. Make yourself comfortable by the fireplace and sip your favorite wine. Today I present to the attention of cinema lovers a film called Death Race: Beyond Anarchy (2018). On the screen…
In those alien seas where the rays of heaven cannot penetrate the shroud of sargasso, monsters live in the obsidian-black depths. From the muddy Neva River through the strong "Baltic" they go to these waters…