Author: Rob Williams
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Restored Film Review – Supervixens
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And so we come to the second part of Russ Meyer’s Vixen trilogy…Supervixens. As before, Mr Meyer has made a film playing to his strengths. In an interview with the Chicago Tribune he said “I’m back to big bosoms, square jaws, lotsa action and the most sensational sex you ever saw. I’m back to what…
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Restored Film Review – Beneath The Valley Of The Ultravixens
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And so we come to the final part of Russ Meyer’s Vixen trilogy… Beneath The Valley Of The Ultravixens. We’re ten years on from the opening and things have changed. When Vixen! was released it was among the first US films to be given one of the new X certificates because of its sexual content.…
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Restored Film Review – Vixen!
This reviewing films lark is a funny old game! Well, it especially is when an old film gets a re-release. That’s even more especially so when it’s a film you know about, had wanted to see when you were younger, but never actually got around to it. The film I’m wittering on about is Vixen!…
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Independent Film Review – Detained
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When one of the wonderful people at Aim Publicity lets me know that another film is going to be available for review it is usually by sending a press release with a trailer attached. And so it was when I got the email about Detained. It said “Nothing is quite what it seems in Detained…
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Independent Film Review – Invitation To A Murder
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There’s nothing quite like a good, well thought out whodunit. They have been a popular genre for over a century and I think it is fair to say that the undisputed queen of the mystery novel is Dame Agatha Christie. Her most successful novel, with sales in excess of 100 million, is And Then There…
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Independent Film Review – The Imposters
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Sometimes you’ll watch a film without realising that there is something different about it. For instance, if you started reading Gadsby by Ernest Vincent Wright I wonder how far you’d get into this 1939 novel before realising it is a lipogram. By that I mean it is 50,000 words long but nowhere does Wright use…
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Independent Film Review – #AMFAD: All My Friends Are Dead
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I’m probably the worst person to send this to. Firstly, I’m not a fan of horror films. Particularly not the slasher sub-genre. I saw most of Saw, the first half of Hostel, and a couple of Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street offerings. I know that there are of plenty of perfectly nice people out…
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Independent Film Review – Overkill
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Within the first five minutes of Overkill, Taylor (Carol Kim) is brutally murdered in her home. She is stabbed many times by a man inside her room. The man was there to kill her…not to rob, kidnap, or assault her. He came with his own big, sharp knife and knew that there would be nobody…
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Independent Film Review – What We Find On The Road
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What is it about Americans and road movies? There are a few road films set in the UK but, given that it only takes about fifteen hours to drive from Land’s End to John o’Groats a British road trip is never going to be a marathon excursion. The USA is a much bigger beast though.…
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Independent Film Review – Holiday Twist
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Ah, Christmas films! I have a definite soft spot for them. As we’re just seeing off Halloween there’s nothing much to get excited about before the season of greetings, giddy glee, and gemütlichkeit gets under way. As a result it’ll do no harm to start getting in the festive spirit. Maybe I don’t need to…
