’80s cult classic ‘Society’ on Horror Channel
❉ Brian Yuzna’s grotesque satire receives a welcome repeat screening on Horror Channel this month!
Film
Girl on fire: Edie Sedgwick in ‘Ciao! Manhattan’ (1972)
❉ Speed, Madness, Flying Saucers and a Drunken Beauty in a Drained Swimming Pool. ‘Ciao! Manhattan’ still stands up. Or perhaps more accurately, it leans, stumbles, shakes and lurches as if drunk.
Moviedrome Redux: ‘Slow West’ (2015)
❉ We Are Cult revives the spirit of BBC2’s fondly remembered Sunday night film series ‘Moviedrome’. This week, John Maclean’s stunning film debut ‘Slow West’
Mysticism in Film: ‘The Inner Scar’ (‘La Cicatrice Intérieure,’ 1972) Part 3
❉ We conclude our odyssey of oddities through Philippe Garrel’s allegorical mindfuck of sand, fire and ice…
Found Footage 101: ‘The Last Broadcast’ (USA, 1998)
❉ We conclude our look back at the found footage films that lead up to ‘The Blair Witch Project’, with 1998’s ‘The Last Broadcast.
‘The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse’ returns to DVD!
❉ The gentlemen from Royston Vasey’s 2005 movie returns to shiny silver disc!
‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ (1972) revisited
❉ Writer David Llewellyn looks back on George Roy Hill’s darkly humorous adapation of Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece.
‘Gary Numan: Android In La La Land’: TV premiere on BBC Four
❉ Calling all Numanoids! BBC Four to screen documentary on electronica legend this Friday.
Ken Russell’s ‘The Lair of the White Worm’ is coming to Blu-ray
❉ ’80s cult classic to be released on Blu-ray in January 2017.
Moviedrome Redux: ‘Natural Born Killers’ (1994)
❉ Revisting the “raw, primal explosive intensity” of Natural Born Killers.