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“The reason I never reply to that question is because no matter what I say it will be used against me. But I’ll tell you. I did it because I wanted to. I wanted to do it so much that ...

Jonathan (1970) Karl Marx once famously equated capitalism with vampirism: Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.1 If we regard fascism a form of super-capitalism, vampire ...

Arthur Lubin I once posted a top ten list on Facebook―I do this periodically to reclaim my feed against humblebrags, kid photos and anti-Trump rants―of the films I enjoyed re-watching no matter how many times. To my surprise, they included ...

Bullies have played a significant and recurring role in Stephen King’s work from his earliest days as a published author. In these works, the bullies represent a significant and (generally) familiar villain for his protagonist(s) to overcome, often amid their ...

From 1959 to 1965, Tommy Kirk films appeared in the annual list of the top twenty most popular films in North America every year. It was an astonishing run of commercial successes – The Shaggy Dog (1959), Swiss Family Robinson ...

The Bollywood thriller Gumnaam (1965) isn’t shy about the sort of films that have influenced it. Adopting the jet-set internationality of the 1960s, it becomes an amalgamation of old-fashioned “old dark house” murder mysteries and pop-art modernism filtered through the ...

Michael Haneke once described Schindler’s List (1993) as “unspeakable.” His disgust came from a scene in which women are forced into a gas chamber, and the suspense of whether or not gas or water is to come from the shower ...

Disc Details Kino Lorber, 2019. Region A.  Feature:  Black and white, 103 mins. Aspect ratio 1.37:1.  The Movie Anthology horror films, otherwise known as portmanteau, contain several short films linked by a narrative framing device. It is a popular format ...

“Ju-on: A curse born of grudge held by someone who dies in the grip of anger. It gathers in the places frequented by that person in life, working its spell on those who come into contact with it and thus ...

Fabian is still probably best known for his (relatively) brief heyday as a pop star - specifically the year 1959 when he had three top ten hits - "Turn Me Loose", "Tiger", and "Hound Dog Man". Yet he also had a career as a motion picture leading man that spanned over a decade. It's one that is worth revisiting.