Word: reelingly
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...give the movie a suitably antique look, the directors have simulated scratches and streaks on the image, the occasional flutter of the faux-nitrate in the imaginary gate and, in each feature, a sign supplied by "the management" reading MISSING REEL. (Both of these are during sex scenes; I guarantee that, if this had happened in the old days, there would have been a riot at the Variety...
...both "features" of Grindhouse, the MISSING REEL card flashes as a sex scene has just begun. That's a comment on the old days, but it also proves that when it comes to eroticism, of the true or even exploitation variety, these directors are such cowards. If they use sex at all, it is in the horror-film mode pioneered by Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Show a woman in a shower, then kill her. The impulse is both prurient and puritanical; they provide a brief voyeuristic pleasure, then feel obliged to punish the women, and the audience, and themselves...
...these directors, female empowerment means armament; they liberate their movie women by turning them into men. They will show their actresses killing villains but never making love. (When two lovers start a sex scene in Planet Terror, the screen flames out and a sign, MISSING REEL, appears.) So the young males in the audience get not a window into the complex and mysterious nature of women but a mirror of their own urges: to talk tough and blow stuff...
...lead by winning three straight singles matches at the first, second, and fourth singles positions. At No. 1, sophomore Chris Clayton played well, taking his match to 1-1 in the third set before losing a few points to drop a break. From there on, he could not reel in his opponent, losing the final set, 6-2. At No. 2, junior Dan Nguyen lost, 6-4, 6-4, to an opponent who, according to Fish, “was swinging from his heels, and everything was going in.” At No. 4, co-captain Scott Denenberg lost...
...distributors thought it was much too ratty for the theater. I would go to places with two big reels and give them to the projectionist and three or four people in suits would come in and sit down. By the end of the first reel, when the lights came on, they'd all be gone. We got a little discouraged. One day, this guy called up and said, "I'd like to come see it." He was manager of a string of porn houses all over the West. At the end of the screening, he said, "It looks like...