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.
It's really heartening to know that Sam Neill is so proud of Possession and his role in it. www.theguardian.com/film/article...
He is one of the world’s best actors – but can still go to Starbucks without anyone recognising him. He discusses cancer, remission, happiness, fame and video nasties
Watched it years ago. Need to watch it again to see if it holds the same power.
How do people feel about Bad Boy Bubby?
Today I discovered our cat will go out in the garden, go on his adventures and then knock on the front door to be let back in.
At a party with the political editor of the telegraph.
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.
