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By Ros Tibbs A powerhouse in B-movies, cult cinema and direct-to-video sci-fi, action flicks, filmmaker Albert Pyun has has 40 eccentric and dazzling features listed in his credits, beginning with his director debut The Sword and the Sorcerer in 1982, and ending with 2017’s Interstellar Civil War, released five years before his passing. Pyun’s cinematic…
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by Ros Tibbs Being a true and well rounded cinephile calls for a persistent and educated commitment to everything the artform of filmmaking has to offer. It is not the repeated watching and mentioning of Coppola, Kurosawa, Bergman, Fellini, Kubrick or Welles which carve out a film goer worthy of such titling, but instead the…
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by Ros Tibbs Pushing transgressive, Queer, anti-establishment and punk art into the filmic spotlight, legendary cult director John Waters proved his status as a culturally significant filmmaker when he kicked off the 1970s decade with 1970’s Multiple Maniacs, an independent black-comedy starring the director’s muses Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary, Mink Stole, Edith Massey,…
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by Ashley B Red ‘Uncanny Valley’ is a term first coined in 1970 by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori. It refers to a robot or a doll which isn’t quite ‘fully human’. Late Wednesday evening I found myself seated within the rich rouge red chairs in the front row of The Rio Cinema in Dalston, East…
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by Pranamika Subhalaxmi In my childhood bedroom in Singapore for much of 2017, I had my first taste of film curating for other people in the form of movie nights. Friends would crowd in my room, sat atop my single bed and pull-out and some pillows and blankets strewn across the ground, to drink, snack…
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