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The Future Belongs to the Mad

Jarrod Shanahan

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What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And ...

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Here & Elsewhere: On Images of Genocide in Palestine

Tiffany Berruti

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In 1976, Jean-Luc Godard and Anne Marie Miéville released a strange film called Here and Elsewhere. The film is in fact a series of unfinished shots stitched together from an earlier film that was never finished, ...

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Screening Slave Revolt

Tim Bruno

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There’s a line of thinking that calls out the problem of “slavery movies”—the apparent overabundance of depictions of Black people being enslaved, the way those depictions can too comfortably glide into voyeuristic pleasure at Black suffering. ...

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Zoomers Go to Hell

Jarrod Shanahan

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This October marked the release of Hellraiser (2022), a putative reboot of the 1987 horror classic and the eleventh entry into the Hellraiser franchise. It is especially significant for the involvement of creator Clive Barker, who ...

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The Silos of History: Remarks on Romain Gavras’ Athena

Kieran Aarons

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To be a revolutionary during the first decade of the 20th century meant recognizing that one stood at the beginning of a new strategic era, one marked by the eclipse and exhaustion of a certain Blanquist ...

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The Original A#1 – Lee Marvin Rides the Rails – At the Drive-In with Mike Morgan

Mike Morgan

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I’ll never forget the opening sequence of the 1960 film The Magnificent Seven, the western remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Sumarai.  This is not because of the Elmer Bernstein Marlboro Man theme music.  Nor is it ...

Death to The Walking Dead

Jarrod Shanahan

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After twelve years of blood and guts, AMC’s post-apocalyptic zombie epic The Walking Dead (TWD) is finally being laid to rest. With almost all of the original cast long torn to shreds since its 2010 debut, ...

A Glimpse of Nablus

Jenny Morgan

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I probably won’t live long enough to bring into being a film I’ve thought about making in Nablus, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, from the time the Women’s Press sent a preview copy of Palestinian poet ...

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More from the Vault: A Brief Encounter with Orlando Pirates

Jenny Morgan

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The following piece appeared in Issue #7 of Hard Crackers Magazine, which can be purchased here.   I don’t know why I looked round towards our production vehicle. We were in Soweto, in late afternoon sunshine, ...

Review of Earth II

Jarrod Shanahan

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Keanu Reeves clicks on the television, to be greeted with dire warnings of impending climate collapse. Antarctica is melting at a startling rate. The coming decades will be defined by death, disease, rampant flooding, rising seas, ...

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