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Category Archives: Films
Dave Made a Maze
An Oral History of 28 Days Later
Inverse has a short oral history of 28 Days Later – film I looked back at almost four years ago. It’s an interesting little piece and I’d not realise how close the 9/11 attacks had come to putting an end to the production of a film that, ultimately, turned out to be a major influence on the genre.
Coming This Summer…. McBain: The Movie
McBain: The Movie is a lost 80s action classic. What little footage remains has been spliced together below for your edification.
Kubrickian Star Wars
From the chap who brought us 2001: A Space Odyssey – As directed by George Lucas a few months ago.
Rejected / Don Hertzfeldt (2000)
From 2000, the rather lovely Rejected by Don Hertzfeldt.
FANNY The Brave Dog (Lee Hardcastle)
A fun little 43 seconds exploring the idea of Uber for Zombie-killing.
2001: A Space Odyssey – As directed by George Lucas
I’d have watched that.
Recent Films
Recent films – Summer 2022
It’s been something of a slow summer season for films this year.
Layer Cake
And in the beginning there was ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels‘, and the people saw it and liked it and told their friends, who also saw it and liked it and told their friends.,
And then, after some time, it had earned 28 million dollars on a budget of just 1.4 million.
And the film executives and producers and directors looked at this return and saw that it was good.
And thus began the late 90s wave of UK-based dramedy crime capers.
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