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Published in Red Mist, 16th March 2012 From the early 70s until the early 90s, West German train stations, post offices, and other public places were routinely equipped with the infamous ‘Terroristen’ posters parading mugshots of wanted Red Army Faction militants. A hefty reward was promised for any relevant information leading to capture – but, […]
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Tags: imperialism, Jason Russell, kony, kony 2012, liberals
Published in Red Mist, 19th June 2011 “Because sex workers shouldn’t be dead to be on film”, argued the promo blurb for London’s first Sex Worker Film Festival. And who aside from Henry of Portrait of a Serial Killer could disagree? Organised by the Sex Worker Open University, a “grassroots collective” of sex workers, academics and activists, […]
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Tags: feminism, hackney, international union of sex workers, prostitution, puritanism, sex worker film festival, sex workers, socialism, strippers
Here’s your only ever chance to watch someone kick the shit out of somebody else while shouting “since when do you give a fuck about Beethoven?!” Daniele Luchetti’s movie My Brother Is An Only Child tells the story of two brothers growing up in an Italian smalltown in the 60s. Manrico gets laid and joins […]
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Tags: cinema, daniele luchetti, film, film reviews, Films, il fasciocomunista, Italian cinema, Italian films, Italy, Mio fratello è figlio unico, my brother is an only child
One thing I was apprehensive about when I went to see Haneke’s US remake of his own Austrian-made 1998 cult classic was its possible merciless mainstreamisation to woo a larger US audience. In place of the John Zorn score that violently crashes into the introductory sequence of the original, I expected Slipknot, or whatever else […]
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Tags: cinema, film, film reviews, Films, funny games, haneke, independent film, john zorn, michael haneke, michael pitt, naomi watts
Tura Satana interview
Tura Satana is usually remembered as Varla, the ultimate bad girl from Russ Meyer’s 1966 cult movie Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Only true schlock aficionados are also familiar with her parts in Ted Mikels’s 1968 sci-fi horror effort, The Astro-Zombies, and his madman-against the-world trash feast, The Doll Squad (1974). Through her stunning looks and […]
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Tags: cinema, exploitation films, film, film history, russ meyer, trash cinema, trash culture, trash movies, tura satana
