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Mapping Obsession: A Personal Vertigo Pilgrimage
It was a cool April morning in San Francisco. Just after 6am I stood in Claude Lane, betw...
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30 Years On: Q - The Winged Serpent Revisited
Frequently described as a maverick and an auteur, Larry Cohen is the type of filmmaker wh...
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FrightFest The 13th: The Cigarette Burns Report
To say it's a pilgrimage for some isn't to overstate FrightFest's importance. For 13 year...
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A Fair Coppola? Rumble Fish Reassessed
The presence of absence is everywhere in Rumble Fish, which was the second SE Hinton nove...
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Foley Cow! Berberian Sound Studio Director Peter Strickland Interviewed
A bloodcurdling scream lands on the wet sop of a demolished watermelon. The sudden clunk ...
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Bowiefest Preview: Absolute Beginners Revisited
"Now, my kids will watch anything, but they couldn't watch this. Nor could their friends....
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"We Were Engulfed By Acid Vapour" - Samsara's Mark Magidson Interviewed
A slaughterhouse. Prayers at Mecca. A sand mandala painstakingly created and then destroy...
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Truths And Lies: F For Fake Revisited
The re-release of Orson Welles' F for Fake this summer is a cause for celebration. Consid...
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Film Reviews
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Zack and Miri And The Sex Industry On The Silver Screen
Relocating from his New Jersey comfort zone to the not-entirely-dissimilar locale of snowy Pitt...
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Christmas On Mars: A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring The Flaming Lips
This is exactly what you would imagine a Flaming Lips feature film to be like. It is prepostero...
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Crap Horror Enters The 3rd Dimension: Scar 3D Reviewed
Long story short… some years ago, precocious teenager Joan and her friend accept hospitality fr...
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Did Oliver Stone Go Easy on George Bush? W. Reviewed
W., while intermittently amusing, is not what it could or should have been. Since Oliver Stone ...
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The Passion of Bobby Sands: Hunger Reviewed
Many films are made about brave individuals taking a stand against an unshakeable authority and...
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The Short Films of David Lynch: A Film by Film Review
davidlynch.com can be a scary place late at night. Shuffling aimlessly through its dark pages a...
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Quantum Of Solace Reviewed - Is It The Worst Bond Yet?
Pierce Brosnan once described the enduring appeal of the James Bond movies thus: “It’s the wo...
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Remembering Eraserhead, and 20 More of the Best Movie Posters Ever
I sometimes wish I hadn’t done a runner from my last house. Granted, I owed the obese landlord ...
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