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Title: Ticked off
Post by: Shana A on April 09, 2010, 08:38:17 AM
Ticked off
   
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Published 04/08/2010

by Gwendolyn Ann Smith

http://ebar.com/columns/column.php?sec=transmissions&article=134 (http://ebar.com/columns/column.php?sec=transmissions&article=134)

A few weeks ago, I was made aware of a movie that was coming to the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City later this month. The film, Ticked-Off ->-bleeped-<-s With Knives from director Israel Luna is a campy, low-to-no-budget send-up of revenge thrillers, molded in the style of blaxploitation films of the 1970s.

In the words of Luna, "The idea actually came up when a group of us were watching the Grindhouse movies that Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez did. After, we were just playing around and someone said I should do this with drag queens. That would be so much fun."