A cute 1950s examination of the world of the pin-up artist.
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The Christopher Lee Enigma: Meeting A Childhood Hero
Your Reprobate editor’s first encounter with the great man while filming a Wicker Man documentary.
Ray Charles, Movie Star: The Strange Tale Of Ballad In Blue
A stiff-lipped melodrama in which the famed musician becomes chummy with a small boy – it was a more innocent time in 1965.
Come Fly With Me! The Lost World Of Glamorous Air Stewardesses
Gratuitously sexy advertising and ultra-cool fashions from the days of the jet set.
Paid Promotions And Review Copies Are Not The Same Thing
In its efforts to clamp down on influencer shills, YouTube is trying to drag review material into the realm of ‘sponsored posts’, which seems rather questionable.
Anthropophagous II: An Exercise In Worthless Opportunism
The newly-made follow-up – in name only – to the notorious Video Nasty is not an enjoyable viewing experience.
Portraiture, Greasepaint, Gore? Walter Sickert At Tate Britain
There is more to the work of Walter Sickert than current deluded conspiracy theories, as an exhibition at Tate Britain shows.
Get Your Kink On At DomCon
The Los Angeles festival of kink culture and BDSM free expression returns this weekend.
Blecch Glasses: Dario Argento And The Limitations Of Creativity
Occhiali Neri has been hailed as Argento’s great comeback movie – but is it too little, too late from a director whose artistic visions seem long exhausted?
Give Me Something To Break! Limp Bizkit At Finsbury Park
Remembering how the nu-metal superstars came close to killing your editor.
Science Fiction Cinema Grows Up: Fritz Lang’s Woman In The Moon
The pioneering and influential space travel silent classic is a mixed bag of melodrama and innovation.
The Diabolical Devilries Of Eugène Lepoittevin
The outrageous and provocatively sexual Devilries of the famed French artist. Be warned: this is still eye-popping stuff.