*contains spoilers To quote from Revelations in the Bible at around Chapter VIII of John: “…there fell a great star from heaven burning as it were a lamp and it fell upon the third part of the rivers and upon the fountains of the waters… and many men died of the waters. Because they were…
Ian Pringle is an Australian writer/director who began his career with a couple of shorts and the short feature Wronsky (1979). His first feature was The Plains of Heaven (1982) which is set in the highlands of Victoria. His follow-up to that was Wrong World (1985) which is a kind of road movie in the…
Read more Writer/Director Ian Pringle on The Prisoner of St. Petersburg and his Cult Career…
*contains spoilers Australian cinema remained in the doldrums for decades after its heady days in the 1930s and it wasn’t until the early 1970s thanks to some funding from the Federal Government that filmmaking got underway again in the country. One of the handful of films which kicked off this renaissance in Aussie filmmaking was…
Read more The First Real Aussie Cult Film was Sandy Harbutt’s Stone
Writer/Director Michael Farkas went to USC to study film. He quickly went on the make his first feature movie Prime Risk (1985) which has become a cult movie. After Prime Risk, he spent several years developing new scripts, then moved from Los Angeles back to Washington D.C. in 1988 where he opened Infocus Communications, a…
Read more Writer/Director Michael Farkas on his Cult Movie Prime Risk
*contains spoilers Following the failure of Revolt of the Zombies, the Halperins made their last interesting movie entitled Nation Aflame (1937). It turns a story by white supremacist Thomas Dixon (1864-1946 cerebral haemorrhage) of A Birth of a Nation fame on its head using several writers to produce an anti-racist film about founders of a…
Read more The Halperin Brothers White Zombie and Aftermath (Part Two)
*contains spoilers I took out the apostrophe from the Halperin Brothers White Zombie in the title because I think they are just as important as The United Nations Building and the Mark Wahlberg movie Patriots Day (2016) which also copped flak from journalists who went in a tizz for dropping the apostrophe… Chicago-born director Victor…
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*contains spoilers When we talk of pansexuality today, it was a term which did not really exist back in the late 1960s when labels were more or less limited in their descriptions of gender and sexuality. It comes as a surprise though that the film The Fox (1967), which was directed by Mark Rydell (1929-)…
Read more The Pansexuality of D.H. Lawrence’s The Fox (1967)
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