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They Live (1988) We all see patterns. In information, in art, in life. We look because we need to find meaning and purpose, to tell ourselves that our lives aren’t arbitrary and random. The world isn’t chaos; everything has structure ...

When one is in quarantine, one can make bad choices. My current bad choice is to systemically go through the Camp Blood series… all ten of them. My predilection for slasher films is well known in some circles and I ...

Ladies and gentlemen and children of all ages, we’re going to present for your approval a novelty picture with an all-midget cast, the first of its kind ever to be produced. I’m told that it has everything, that is everything ...

In the 90’s and the early 00’s, indie features were plentiful. Cinema was alive with original ideas and audiences craved non-cookie cutter films. Taboo subjects could be presented, and while some were disturbed by the controversial storylines, these productions were ...

The shocking truth (and serendipitous nature) of film and its relationship to the electric chair has its origins in one man out to destroy another. Propaganda, exploitation and animal cruelty are all part of the same story. One we are ...

1969 was arguably the year Hollywood fully embraced the revisionist western. In addition to Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch, there was True Grit, Tell Them Willy Boy is Here, Death of a Gunfighter, and Midnight Cowboy. As well as playing with ...

From the mid-sixties to the early seventies, if you wanted to lose yourself in the world of the portmanteau horror film, Amicus, ‘the studio that dripped blood’, was the where it was at. Formed by American duo Max Rosenberg and ...

“Do you see the glass as half empty or half full?” This simple question has been used many times to determine whether or not someone is an optimist or a pessimist. Personally, I feel it’s a very flawed test. A ...

I had been dreading it for days, but it was finally time to brave the supermarket again. Never in my forty-four years on the planet has grocery shopping been as menacing a prospect as it is these days, in the ...

In 1987, maverick filmmakers Tsui Hark and Ching Siu-tung joined forces to make A Chinese Ghost Story, one of the most beautiful and enduring films of the Hong Kong New Wave.