Noirvember: Branded To Kill
Continuing our crime movie month with a look at Seijun Suzuki’s radical reinterpretation of the Japanese gangster movie.
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Pulped Friction: Learning To Live With The World’s Most Over-Hyped Movie
Almost three decades on, Pulp Fiction remains the go-to Cool Movie for people who aren’t cool.
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Farewell To The Street Fighter
Remembering the great Japanese action star whose perpetually cool career spanned six decades.
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Clowns To The Left Of Me, Jokers To The Right…
The moral panic over Joker is a depressing throwback to video nasty hysteria.
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Sid Haig 1939 – 2019
Exploitation cinema’s greatest heavy, Sid Haig, has died aged 80.
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From First To Last: Old Farts
If some filmmakers outstay their welcome, Quentin Tarantino won’t be the one to judge. Some older fimmakers make boring films (in many respects they are like a lot of young …
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Jim McBride’s reworking of the Godard classic was widely dismissed at the time, but can now be seen as an ahead-of-its-time study of pop culture and criminal cool.
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