Author: Rob Williams
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Independent Documentary Review – Like Tears In Rain
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Ah…coincidence. A few days ago I saw a T-shirt which featured a graphic of a man with his head lowered in a torrential rain storm. Under the graphic is the simple phrase Like Tears In Rain. The image is made up mainly of white diagonal lines on a black background. Despite this, it is obvious…
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Independent Documentary Review – Immediate Family
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I do like a documentary. I also like music. So you can imagine how much I enjoy a music documentary. Obviously I don’t like every type of music but I do have quite catholic tastes. One documentary that I particularly liked was 2008’s The Wrecking Crew! which, due to arguments over the music rights, wasn’t…
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Independent Film Review – Scarlet Winter
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Ah…the old non-linear timeline trope. Quentin Tarantino used it so often that it became known as the Tarantino effect. He did reinvigorate the use of it but he didn’t invent it…not by a long shot! The earliest recorded use of it was over seventy five years earlier in DW Griffith’s Intolerance. Admittedly we’re all very…
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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…
