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Opening our preview of Mayhem Film Festival highlights with a look at an extraordinary and forgotten Japanese study in obsession and psychosis.

Noah Brown’s miscreant rebel returns for another battle with the mundane.

Noah Brown’s cartoon creation returns to continue to speak truth to power. Sort of.

Our regular(ish) new cartoon series from Noah Brown.

Remembering the great photographer and filmmaker, whose radical satirical films are still ignored by cult movie fans and distributors alike.

Class war and hidden secrets in Wes Craven’s twisted fairy tale.

Our crime movie month continues with a look at Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s unique Polish interpretation of the Hitchcockian rail thriller.