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Get In The Ring! Andrew Stimpson Goes Wrestling With VICE

Andrew Stimpson gives us a potted history of pro-wrestling after watching Vice's new documentary The British Wrestler. Pictures courtesy of Jake Lewis
Film

Don’t Weave Me This Way: The Basket Case Trilogy Revisited

Andrew Stimpson unravels Frank Henenlotter's low-budget Siamese twins saga, which is released as a triple-disc Blu-ray and DVD this week
Film

Hammer Time! A Vintage Horror Blu-ray Bonanza

Andrew Stimpson assesses a trio of Hammer titles restored for home entertainment release this month, as part of StudioCanal's ongoing series. Still from Rasputin The Mad Monk
Film

25 Years On: Street Trash Revisited

Andrew Stimpson rewinds to the VHS era's ultimate melt movie, which is screening at the Prince Charles Cinema in London this weekend
Remember Them…

Vicious Yet Deeply Human Writing: Sven Hassel RIP

Andrew Stimpson recalls the work of a novelist whose early books captured the horrors of WWII in the kind of gripping manner that no allied soldier turned writer ever managed
Film

30 Years On: Q – The Winged Serpent Revisited

Andrew Stimpson flies back to 1982 and Larry Cohen's cult creature feature, which is screening as part of Scala Beyond in London this week
News

Tony Scott RIP

Andrew Stimpson remembers filmmaker Tony Scott, who died on Sunday at the age of 68
Film

Jurassic Lark: The Land That Time Forgot Remembered

Andrew Stimpson time warps to the fantasy realms of British studio Amicus and its all-American hero Doug McClure, star of three new DVD releases
Film

Memory Pain: The Original Total Recall Revisited

Pre-empting next month's remake, Paul Verhoeven's 1990 sci-fi is being released on Blu-ray. Andrew Stimpson can remember it for you wholesale
Film

Walken This Way: King Of New York Reappraised

Andrew Stimpson tips his hat to Abel Ferrara's 1990 gangster flick, released on Blu-ray and deluxe DVD this week
Film

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie Revisited

For the lonely nerd in all of us… Andrew Stimpson watches the cult TV series’ 1996 big screen spin-off, newly released on DVD and Blu-ray
Film

Apocalypse Nearly: Farewell To The King Revisited

Andrew Stimpson takes another look at Hollywood veteran John Milius's other jungle war epic, reissued on DVD this week
Film

20 Years On: Alien 3 Reassessed

Vilified, disregarded and worshipped in equal measure, Alien 3 is one of the most divisive franchise movies of all time. On its 20th anniversary Andrew Stimpson revaluates David Fincher's troubled directorial debut
Black Sky Thinking

Wild Sting: In Defence Of Dune

In the game of folly versus lolly David Lynch's version of the Frank Herbert science fiction novel Dune played and lost. Now revived as part of a BFI Southbank retrospective on the director, it is often regarded as a patchy, incomprehensible failure. Andrew Stimpson challenges this consensus
Black Sky Thinking

Reaper Rebuttal: In Defence Of Neil Marshall’s Doomsday

London band Teeth Of The Sea love Neil Marshall's epic Doomsday so much they've created Reaper, a live soundtrack event inspired by it. But as David Moats's feature earlier this week made clear, mainstream critical reaction to the film was anything but glowing. Avowed fan Andrew Stimpson dons a gimp mask and presents his rebuttal
Film

All Loud on the Eastern Front: Peckinpah’s Cross of Iron Revisited

Optimum have granted Sam Peckinpah’s Eastern Front opus Cross of Iron a long overdue HD facelift. Andrew Stimpson examines this overlooked masterpiece from the troubled and controversial rabble-rouser.
A Quietus Interview

Loud Speaking: Amplifier Interviewed

Andrew Stimpson ventures out on deck with an enormous oar to take on The Octopus, the monstrous new creation from Amplifier. Main photo Tom Sheehan
Black Sky Thinking

Why Cannibals Are The New Zombies

Zombie flicks? Brain dead. Pirate movies? All washed up. Looking for 2010's must have celluloid allegorical action figure? Cannibals, says Andrew Stimpson, his breath perfumed with long pig . . .

Film

Crap Horror Enters The 3rd Dimension: Scar 3D Reviewed

The Quietus test drives the latest 3D filmic experience - Real D and reviews _Scar 3D_ the lamentable torture-porn flick attached to it. Andrew Stimpson wonders how long we'll have to wait until someone puts 3D to good use?
Film

Further Down the Spiral: Dark City A Decade On

Lost somewhere between _City of Lost Children_ and _The Matrix_, _Dark City_ finally gets the director's cut treatment. Andrew Stimpson takes another look at this cult classic.

News

Demise Of Tartan Films: What Went Wrong?

News feature on the death of Tartan Films

Andy Stimpson casts his eye over the amazing body of pan-global work that Tartan Films introduced us to
Film

A Profile Of Uwe Boll

Our extreme cinema correspondent Andrew Stimpson salutes Uwe Boll, the straight to DVD director who beats up his critics and realises that all Lord of the Rings was missing was Ninjas.

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