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Jen Pringle: an appreciation
Anyone with a child under the age of 10, who owns a television, must have stumbled onto Channel 5's 'Milkshake'. What appears at first glance to be for children soon reveals itself to be the channel of...
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Forget Judge Reinhold! Or, why John Saxon is the ultimate movie star.
Make a list of your favourite films: Cannibal Apocalypse,Tenebrae, Enter the Dragon, From Dusk til Dawn, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Napoli Violenta, The Girl Who Knew Too Much, Queen of Blood? Who is...
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Ichi the Killer (2001)
In the days before The Human Centipede and A Serbian Film, Takashi Miike's ultra-violent Yakuza offering caused a bit of a stir, featuring human tempura, face-slicing, schoolgirl rape and extreme...
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F (2010)
In today's culture of banned sports days and downgraded educational standards, it is increasingly difficult to fail at school. Johannes Roberts' movie follows the consequences of a student being given...
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The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2001)
Are you prepared to be "Sterilized With Fear"?Take Robot Monster, add Plan 9 From Outer Space, plus any other 50s b-movie and combine with Airplane and you may get something like this. Director and...
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Necrosis (2009)
If you like the sound of 80s popster Tiffany dressed in a red bikini, sat in a hot tub, then this may be worth a look. To be honest, that's the only thing going for this turgid straight-to-video...
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Smash Cut (2009)
What could go wrong? Hire possibly the only truly sexy porn actress, David Hess, Michael Berryman and H.G. Lewis (yes, that H.G. Lewis) and make a homage to cheapo gore films, but with a decent budget...
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One-Eyed Monster (2008)
Here is a film that ticks all the boxes: a group of porn film-makers shooting at an isolated cabin are attacked by Ron Jeremy's penis. What could very easily been a cheap excuse for nudity and gore...
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Amedeo Modigliani
Here are some of my favourite paintings by my favourite artist, Amedeo Clemente Modigliani. I've seen a couple of his pictures in 'the flesh' so to speak, and they really do take your breath away....
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The Living and the Dead (2006)
The on-screen disintegration of the nuclear family, which was hinted at during the 50s, and became a common thread during the 70s, is the premise of writer/director Simon Rumley's début. The setting...
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Films I've tried, but failed, to watch this week.
Small Town Folk (2007)Sub-League of Gentlemen style frolics starring everyone's favourite Ewok. I got about 15 minutes in, and gave up in disgust. One man band Peter Stanley Ward gives us country folk...
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Hobo With a Shotgun (2011)
The latest in a line of exploitation pastiche/homages is Jason Eisener's Hobo With a Shotgun. Whereas Planet Terror, Machete, et al are content to ape the sleazy, cheap look of their antecedents,...
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Sucker Punch (2011)
This is probably the epitome of a high budget, high concept film. Combine two of the most interesting films of the last couple of years, Inception and Shutter Island, throw in a little Sailor Moon,...
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Reboots, Remakes and Rehashes
It seems to be everywhere at the moment: remakes of classic and not-too-classic films. At first glance, it looks as though every horror film ever made has been redone, or is about to: Halloween, Friday...
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Last House on the Left vs Last House on the Left
Can a remake of a remake of a literary adaptation be any good? Its common knowledge that Wes Craven's 1972 film was a remake of Bergman's The Virgin Spring, which itself was based on a Swedish ballad,...
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RoboGeisha (2009)
From the fecund imagination of enema-fetish director Noboru Iguchi comes this offering, a combination of Iguchi's own Machine Girl, RoboCop, Tetsuo and Power Rangers. As with most of Iguchi's films,...
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13 Assassins/Jūsannin no Shikaku (2010)
Takashi Miike is one of the most satisfyingly perverse directors around. Audition, Ichi the Killer, Visitor Q, Gozu: all deliberately pushing at the boundaries of the acceptable, without resorting to...
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A Whole Lotta Blu-rays
These new smartphones make it distressingly easy to buy films, and the Amazon and eBay apps have been taking a hammering lately. Having a wife, daughter and a job, there aint too much quality...
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Mad Detective/Sun Taam (2007)
Detectives in fiction usually have major foibles, from Sherlock Holmes' drug addiction to Adrian Monk's OCD (and he must have been seriously deranged not to have a pop at the curly-haired temptress who...
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I Saw the Devil/Akmareul boattda (2010)
South Korean cinema, whilst not perhaps quite gaining the same overseas recognition as that of Japan, continues to produce a great deal of interesting films. Bong Joon-ho'sThe Host was a sizable...
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Drive (2011)
The 80s has never seen a particularly cool decade. The 70s was a time of Scorcese coming up to speed, Argento was making good films, the Star Wars saga was born and the most frightening film ever,...
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Melancholia (2011)
The end of the world has long been a staple feature in cinema. There have been the good: Romero's early Dead films, Dr. Strangelove, a whole raft of 50s films; the bad: Armageddon, 2012, The Day After...
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Apollo 18 (2011)
Conspiracy theories concerning the moon landing have been around for decades. The most popular being that the Apollo 11 moon landings were faked due to the technical shortcomings of the day. The...
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Quick round-up of films I've watched this week
I've managed to squeeze in a bit of film watching this week, but haven't had the time to do any proper reviews, so here's a few capsules:Paul (2011) Pegg and Frost fail yet again to replicate the...
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Holiday on the Buses (1973)
1973 was a vintage year for film-goers: The Exorcist, The Sting, Magnum Force, Enter the Dragon, Amacord, Badlands, Coffy, The Crazies, Don't Look Now, The Holy Mountain, The Wicker Man, The Stone...
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