Looking back at the Austin Powers films, a series now almost as out of touch with modern sensibilities as the character himself. But does that matter?
Tag: bad taste
It Takes All Kinds Of Critters To Make Farmer Vincent Fritters – Checking Into Motel Hell
One of the cult classics of the early 1980s fails to live up to the promise of its own imagery and outlandishly tasteless premise.
Can You Dig It? A New Biography Of Legendary Dolemite Star Rudy Ray Moore
A new biography of the pioneering and outrageous star of Dolemite.
The Strange Case Of Heil Honey, I’m Home
The mystery and misdirection behind Britain’s most notorious and misunderstood sit-com.
Black Bart – The Buried TV Sequel To Blazing Saddles
The Mel Brooks classic that became a TV series that ran for four seasons without being broadcast anywhere.
Gestapo’s Last Orgy Is Still Too Outrageous For Britain’s Censors
The British film censors are still confusing offensiveness for dangerousness as they ban yet another former Video Nasty.
Superstrong, Supernatural And Superbad! A Fistful Of Exploitation Movie Radio Spots
Gloriously unrestrained radio trailers from the golden age of exploitation cinema.
Have A John Waters Christmas
Happy Holidays from John Waters and the filthiest people (no longer) alive.
The Ageless Appeal Of Harold And Maude
Cult cinema, desperate film hipsters, moral hypocrites and the joys of death – Hal Ashby’s oddball movie explores and exposes more than you might think.
The Sauce That Time Forgot
The sun-kissed allure of the naughty holiday postcard.
No More Fucking In Austria
The small village with a rude name has had enough of sniggering tourists.
The Night Porter’s Last Orgy
As The Night Porter returns to blu-ray, we look at the sordid world of the brief Naziploitation craze it accidentally helped spawn, and its most outrageous imitator.