A fight filmed in one uninterrupted shot sounds like the purest kind of movie magic. No visible edit can hide a mistimed punch, a tired performer or a camera…
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A Canadian horror film arriving in Britain as a romantic comedy sounds like a distribution prank, but it reflects a real problem in exploitation cinema: the…
Few film stories sound more made for a late-night grindhouse podcast than the tale of an actor performing his own stunts while sealed inside a full-body…
Long before military drones became familiar through news reports, video games and smartphone footage, cinema was already imagining an unmanned aircraft…
A great car chase should make the body tense before the brain catches up. Tyres howl, engines rise through the gears, traffic becomes a moving obstacle course,…
A studio can become nervous when a dark genre picture refuses to behave like a conventional commercial movie. A horror film may be too bleak, an action picture…
Some film pairings make sense because they share a star, director, studio or franchise. Others are connected by the unruly pathways of exploitation cinema,…
Few horror images are as instantly effective as a skull half-buried in dust, a rib cage emerging from a wall, or a corpse waiting at the back of a cave. The…
There is a particular kind of film trivia that sounds too perfect to verify. Somewhere between a video-store recommendation and a late-night pub argument,…
Before reality television became a permanent fixture of the schedule, a small, vicious film imagined entertainment built around ordinary people being watched…