And the random addition of Gavin Rossdale for that one series.
Outside of his classic canon, I have a massive soft spot for Farewell, Friend. A moody crime film co-starring someone I consider his American synonym, Charles Bronson.
Hell's Ground director, Omar Ali Khan's huge book on Pakistani cinema, Loose Cannons & Dangerous Curves. A mammoth exploration of the wild world of Pashto, Punjabi and Urdu language cinema. Khan takes on religious, regional & gender politics to be found in Pakistani pop culture.
Watched it years ago. Need to watch it again to see if it holds the same power.
Despotic Bodies and Transgressive Bodies - Spanish Culture from Francisco Franco to Jesùs Franco by Tatjana Pavlović is an incisive exploration of the making of Spanish identity during the Franco years and how it is mirrored/resisted in its popular cinema.
Renegade Westerns by Kevin Grant & Clark Hodgkiss (Fab Press) is an alternative journey through the cinematic American West exploring films that questioned and resisted the mythmaking of the twentieth century US popular culture.
Satanic Panic is a collection of essays on the "pop-cultural paranoia" of Satan and Satanic cults in the 1980s edited by @kierlajanisse.bsky.social@paulcorupe.bsky.social. It looks at Dungeons & Dragons, cults, rock music, horror movies & lots more nooks and crannies than you possibly imagined.
Little Did You Know - The Confessions of David McGillivray is a delightful picaresque journey that includes 70s horror exploitation cinema, fringe theatre, drug dealing and becoming Julian Clary's writing partner amongst a litany of hilarious anecdotes.
