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Two especially choice quotes from the new (August) issue of Uncut: “‘Laika,’ with Pixies-ish call and response, has Tom Verlaine guitar harmonics over ? & the Mysterians staccato rhythms.” “…‘Chelsea Burns’ is a frazzled, Mazzy Cohen hymn to beautiful losers.” Wonder if even Leonard Cohen gets the “Mazzy” part. July 15, 2005 More Rock Snobbery »
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AIP. Commonly used shorthand for American International Pictures, a crank-’em-out production company, founded in 1954, that was among the first institutions to be exalted as a font of Important Kitsch; as far back as 1979, AIP was the subject of an adoring retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Unabashedly chasing the whims of fickle teens, AIP’s mandate switched from Westerns (ROGER CORMAN’s Apache Woman) to “teen horror” (I Was a Teenage Werewolf) to Vincent Price’s “Poe” movies (House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum) to the Annette-and-Frankie “Beach Party” movies—though, in later years, AIP’s output skewed ever more exploitatively toward Grindhouse fare (e.g., PAM GRIER in Black Mama, White Mama). Kutcher exudes the bland hunkiness of a juvenile lead in an old AIP feature. Read more from the Film Snob's Dictionary » 
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