Wooden Swords and Cut-Price Sorcery
Conan the Barbarian lit the fuse for an explosion of cheaply-made, scummy knock-offs that found their way into fleapits and (mostly) video rental stores for the next half-decade.
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Author: Dave Thomas
Satan, Stone and Big Fucking Guns: The Strange Pull of Split Second
Split Second came at a time when it seemed like there would be a British vanguard of sci-fi action movies. There was something about their Britishness that set them apart from similar films, a feeling that they’d been ripped from the pages of the UK’s venerable 2000AD comic.
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Inscrutable melancholy – Edward Hopper in genre film
“I don’t know about art”, the saying goes, “but I know what I like.”...
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Heroic Bloodshed: When Hammer met Shaw Brothers
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires. The films of Hammer, that small family-run film studio by the...
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A Sex Comedy for the Sexually Active: The Little Death
At time of writing, it’s a few weeks to the start of the 63rd BFI London Film Festival,...
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Busted Guts: Cracking Open Comedy Cinema
