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Archive for October, 2008

LOGAN’S RUN

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

The most relentlessly 70s of all 70s genre movies, Logan’s Run cast some of the most iconic actors of that decade – York, Agutter, Fawcett, Ustinov – in a sci-fi fable that swings between kitsch and the dystopian fallout of the summer of love.
Review by Alex Fitch

KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

For a trashy horror/sci-fi/comedy (thanks IMDB), Killer Klowns is inspired. It takes the simple (albeit done to death) idea of clowns being evil, but exploits that premise for all it’s worth. Victims are turned into candyfloss, inflatable balloon animals hunt people down while the Klowns fire popcorn guns where each grain turns into a carnivorous jack-in-the-box.
Review by Oli Smith

KING OF NEW YORK

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

The Fun Lovin’ Criminals took it as the title of one of their tracks and it’s not much of an exaggeration to say Biggie Smalls claimed to be it every other line in his raps, but the popular use of the phrase ‘King of New York’ originates with Abel Ferrara’s 1990 film about a drug lord who eliminates his competition in order to make enough money to save a Harlem hospital.
Review by Alexander Pashby

BABYLON

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Set in the pre-gentrified soundscape of Brixton, tuned in to the bass frequencies of the black community resisting in apnoea under the repressive surface of British history, Babylon is a shamefully forgotten masterpiece of (British) cinema.
Review by Celluloid Liberation Front