Remembering the great photographer and filmmaker, whose radical satirical films are still ignored by cult movie fans and distributors alike.
Tag: satire
Oral History: The Incomplete Story Of A Forgotten Heavy Metal Band
The odd story behind one of heavy metal’s most obscure, salacious and elusive bands.
Jurassic Mansion: The BBC’s Maddest April Fool Spoof
The bizarre 1980 BBC news report that attempted to convince viewers that dinosaurs were being genetically engineered in Hertfordshire.
Flights Into Danger: The Many Adaptations Of The Story That Became Airplane!
Everybody knows that Airplane! was based on a pioneering 1957 disaster movie – but it’s far from being the only other version of that story.
Suburban Conformity: Looking Back At The ‘Burbs
Joe Dante’s most biting satire of suburban America sadly loses its nerve at the last minute and becomes as reactionary and curtain-twitching as its central characters.
Cronenberg Meets Ballard: Super-Cannes Heads Towards TV
Ballard, Cronenberg and insular, isolated communities going insane – it sounds the perfect combination.
Austin Powers – A Man Of His Time
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?
“I Prefer Not To”: Herman Melville’s Bartleby: The Scrivener
Literature’s great refusenik remains as ambiguous as ever – the everyman protestor who rebels of all stripes feel represents them.
Paul Is Dead: The Beatles Conspiracy Theory
The oddly endearing and enduring belief that Paul McCartney was killed at the start of 1967 and replaced with a lookalike.
The Curious Angriness Of People Who Know Better Than You
The curious desire to beat people up for making a mistake online.
A Nude Horse Is A Rude Horse: Alan Abel’s Society For Indecency To Naked Animals
The hoax morality campaign that fooled the US media for years.
If…. – Lindsay Anderson’s Upper-Class War
The key study of revolution and rebellion from 1968, the year of unrest.