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Issue 11: Music Movie
Issue 11 is themed around ‘Music Movies’ – several writers discussing the use of music across a diverse array of films. Sensational cover art by Ashley Ramsey based on the movie, We Are The Best! Includes a fantastic fold out artwork about music video characters by Ben Yaxley. Contributors include: Laurent Shervington, Howie Ng, Annika… Read.
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Heaven’s Gate (1980)
I don’t have access to digital TV at home, so it was a delight to be in a hotel room in Wollongong, turn on the TV to SBS World Movies and see that Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate (1980) was coming up shortly, which I’d always been meaning to see. I remember reading MAD magazines from… Read.
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Border (2018)
Winner of Un Certain Regard at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, the Swedish film Border (2018; Gräns) might also take the crown for weirdest sex scene in a movie. Directed by Ali Abbasi and based on a story written by John Ajvide Lindqvist, the author of Let The Right One In, which gives an indication… Read.
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Night And The City (1950)
Directed by Jules Dassin and shot on location in London, Night And The City (1950) has the iconic look of the film noir genre down pat. From the chiaroscuro lighting of faces in close up to the placement of a suited individual against a dark cityscape, Max Greene’s cinematography is brilliant. The film is also… Read.
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Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
For me, Dolemite Is My Name (2019) was a good time. I was predisposed to like it because of the writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. They wrote one of my favourite movies, Ed Wood, and the easy comparison was that this was a Blaxploitation version of that biopic. There’s a similar structure with supporting… Read.
