Joe Arpaio, the bigoted sheriff who was pardoned by Trump, is running for the Senate in Arizona. He still believes Obama’s birth certificate is phony!
Sad!
Category: Politics
Mexican horror films
I get ideas about films to watch from tweets discussing film series shown in New York and elsewhere. The Brooklyn Academy of Music showed a series of Mexican Horror Films in late 2017. This column has descriptions and commentary. I have tried to find them on DVDs and Blu-ray discs and have now seen most of them. I recommend all of the ones I have seen (in italics in the chart below) but especially The Brainiac. This is one bizarre film about a character that eats brains.
| Film title | Year | Availability |
| Santa Sangre | 1989 | DVD and Blu-ray on Amazon and eBay |
| La Tia Alejandra | 1979 | DVD on Amazon and eBay |
| Cronos | 1993 | Criterion Blu-ray/DVD |
| Alucarda | 1977 | DVD on Amazon and eBay |
| Veneno para las hadas (Poison for the Fairies) | 1984 | DVD on Amazon and eBay |
| Canoa | 1976 | Criterion Blu-ray/DVD |
| El espejo de la bruja (The Witch’s Mirror) | 1962 | CasaNegra DVD |
| El Vampiro | 1957 | CasaNegra DVD |
| La maldición de la llorona (The Curse of the Crying Woman) | 1963 | CasaNegra DVD |
| El barón del terror (The Brainiac) | 1962 | CasaNegra DVD |
The CasaNegra DVDs are excellent but are out of print. They are usually good transfers of the films with fine special features. They are available on eBay. Some are also available at Oldies.com. CasaNegra also made DVDs for other films not on the list above: The Living Coffin (El Grito De La Muerte, and The Black Pit of Dr. M. There is also a sequel to El Vampiro called El Ataud Del Vampiro which CasaNegra bundled with El Vampiro. The CasaNegra DVDs are all from the late 1950s and early 1960s and are generally in black and white. The Criterion Collection always does an outstanding job and their discs contain many supplemental features.
More on Mexican films:
Roy Moore won’t concede
Roy Moore has not conceded that he lost the Senate race in Alabama. Trump and Republicans in Congress have acknowledged that Jones won. It is extremely unlikely that any uncounted votes would change the results. Jones led by about 1.5% and recounts are triggered when the margin is 0.5% or less. Alabama’s Secretary of State, a Moore supporter said it was “highly unlikely” that the result would be different. A recount would be a very long shot.
Moore is acting like Trump probably would have if Trump had lost. Remember when Trump said the 2016 election was going to be rigged?
Then there are the conspiracy theorists who can’t accept the fact that Jones defeated Moore honestly. They have crazy theories that voters were brought in on buses from Mississippi. Alabama has very strict voting laws and this would never have worked.
Updated information on Moore’s unwillingness to concede and conspiracy theories.
Sad! 