The Literally Fantastic Life of Christopher Lee
His strange compulsion to tell porkies about the war.
Movies
Diving into Obscurity: the Films of Jesus Franco
How a trash-cult auteur helped shape modern cinema.
Diving Into Obscurity: The Films of Dario Argento
A surrealist painter in blood, conjuring dreams and nightmares.
They Actually Expect Us to Believe This
Pretending that shitty leftist agitprop is great art.
Woke ‘Science Fiction’ Cartoon Peddles THE MESSAGE
Everyone associated with this adolescent drivel should be frankly embarrassed.
Diving Into Obscurity: ‘Long Weekend’ and ‘Next of Kin’
Two shamefully ignored Ozploitation classics.
Diving Into Obscurity: More American Graffiti
A flawed sequel that deserves more love than it gets.
Adolescence Is the UK’s Escape Hatch
It’s no wonder they are fawning over Adolescence as it provides them with an escape hatch. Unfortunately for them the British public isn’t stupid and my bet is they are seeing right through it.
The Most Philosophical Movie Ever Made
Action, adventure, violence, free will, self and reality in ‘Total Recall’.
Our Hunger Games Unfold in Paris
They are now a testament to the dissolution of nations into a global Panem ruled by Capitol elites, who demonstrate their disdain for the people of the districts through ritualized ridicule of what we used to consider reality.
The Great Villains of the Spaghetti Westerns
In the 1971 comedy-western, Support Your Local Gunfighter, protagonist Latigo Smith (James Garner) ends with a breaking-the-fourth-wall monologue, relating the main characters’ various fates. And me? he concludes. I go on to become a big star in Italian Westerns. The knowing joke shows that, within just a few years of