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		<title>AFTER DARK: SLAP SHOT (1977)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fallows</dc:creator>
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Directed by George Roy Hill

Slap Shot marked the third collaboration between director George Roy Hill and star Paul Newman and finds the duo at their most juvenile. This is a good thing. Under the guise of a sports satire set in the world of professional hockey, Slap Shot is instead an anarchic, violent, drunken brawl of a movie that leaves you as bloody and dazed as the players on the ice.

The story, for what it’s worth, deals with a deadbeat North American hockey team on the brink of annihilation. On a seemingly endless losing streak, the owner decides to sell the Charlestown Chiefs and send the players back into 9 to 5 hell. Unable to prove their worth by playing ‘old time hockey’ (i.e. well) player-coach Reggie Dunlop (Newman) decides on a new approach. Seeing the crowd’s love of violence (“They don’t want ya to score goals – they want blood!!!”) the team go ape shit and slash, hack and smash their way towards the Championship trophy.

With Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and The Sting (1973), Hill and Newman showed an easy charm both in acting and direction. But freed from the niceties of the mainstream and doey-eyed ...]]></description>
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		<title>AFTER DARK: BRUISER (2000)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fallows</dc:creator>
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Written &#38; Directed by George A. Romero

Starring Jason Flemyng (Henry), Peter Stormare (Milos), Leslie Hope (Rosemary) and Tom Atkins (Detective McCleary)

Bruiser is showing on Zone Horror Wednesday 29th April at 2.15am

While Freeview genre channels are usually the den of crap – full of straight-to-TV drek and mainstream rip-offs – here Zone Horror have stumbled upon a gem. Even better, Bruiser is a film that is currently unavailable in the UK and since its release in 2000 has yet to materialise on R2 DVD.

This is odd, because the film is the work of genre heavyweight George A. Romero, a man with a loyal following (thanks to countless zombie movies that began with 1968s Night of the Living Dead) and an eye for the everyday macabre. And like his Dead movies, Brusier is a savage satire on American mores; brutally attacking the country’s aspirational obsessions with his usual sledgehammer approach.

The abandonment of self in favour of a commodified existence is Romero's key target here. The film tells the story of Henry Creedlow (Flemyng) a nobody office drone who works for the fashion magazine Bruiser. Both his boss (Stormare) and his wife (Nina Garbiras) treat him like something they stepped in (and screw around together behind his back). ...]]></description>
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		<title>AFTER DARK: Pat Garrett &amp; Billy the Kid (1973)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fallows</dc:creator>
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Pat Garrett &#38; Bill The Kid is showing on TCM on Thursday the 23rd April at 2.50am 

Directed by Sam Peckinpah

Screenplay by Rudy Wurlitzer

Starring James Coburn (Pat Garrett), Kris Kristofferson (Billy), Bob Dylan (Alias)

Pat Garrett &#38; Billy the Kid is the end of things: the end of a friendship; the end of a man; and the end of a way of life. And for director Sam Peckinpah it was the end too – the last western from the man who had transformed the genre with The Wild Bunch (1969). Pat Garrett &#38; Billy the Kid is a death song – and it is beautiful.

Beginning in Los Cruces, Mexico in 1909 with the shooting of an aged Garrett (Coburn) the film then punches back to 1881 where Billy the Kid (Kristofferson) takes target practice on some live chickens. His old friend Garrett arrives, newly made sheriff of Lincoln County, and tells the Kid that the old ways are finished. The corporations are taking over the country – gonna make it civilised.
“The elective want you gone – out of the country,” warns Garrett.
“Are they tellin me or askin me?”
“I’m askin you,” says Garrett. “But in five days I’m makin you.”
And so it goes. Garrett hunts the Kid, and ...]]></description>
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		<title>After Dark: Tod Browning&#8217;s FREAKS (1932)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fallows</dc:creator>
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FREAKS (1932)
Directed by Tod Browning

Written by Willis Goldbeck &#38; Leon Gordon based on the story “Spurs” by Tod Robbins

Starring Wallace Ford (Phroso the Clown), Leila Hyams (Venus), Olga Baclanova (Cleopatra), Henry Victor (Hercules), Harry Earles (Hans)

Director Tod Browning grew up in the circus – under the big top – amidst manic clowns, hairy women and human deformity all lined up for our entertainment. These were his people. Roll up, roll up.

Roll up, roll!! Dare you see Freaks: the controversial classic, banned in the UK for 30 years!!  Gather round and gasp at these misshapen misfits. Dance with the Pinheads; lust after sexy Siamese Sisters; be confused by Joseph/Josephine the half man, half woman; and cower at the murderous Code of the Freaks!!!!  
“Gooble-gobble, Gooble-gobble,
One of us, one of us!”
It was made in 1932 and has gathered a reputation as a perverse masterpiece. People cower at its name, ‘tut’ at its exploitation of the physically disabled (it was cast with real sideshow performers) and thank the Lord that we now live in enlightened times.

But for the most part Freaks is sympathetic to its title characters. Seldom do we witness them perform for the gawping audience; instead we focus on their workaday lives back ...]]></description>
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		<title>AFTER DARK: Repo Man (1984)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fallows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[REPO MAN (1984)

Written &#38; Directed by Alex Cox

Starring Harry Dean Stanton (Bud), Emilio Estevez (Otto), Tracey Walter (Miller), Olivia Barash (Leila) &#38; Sy Richardson (Lite)

REPO MAN IS SHOWING ON SKY MODERN GREATS AT 3.25am ON THE 1ST APRIL

“Ordinary fuckin people – I hate em,” snarls Bud watching a couple of yuppies across the street.
I agree, and this goes for movies too, and is the perfect place to start a weekly (or as close as I can get) blog dedicated to those weird, wild and wonderful movies that occasionally creep up on British TV.

The line, of course, comes from Alex Cox’s Punk statement-of-intent Repo Man (and since this blog is ‘inspired’ by Cox’s TV Show Moviedrome, it seems only apt to pay homage to the Commandero himself right at the outset). 

REPO MAN tells the story of Otto (Estevez) a dumb young punk who after losing his job and girlfriend ends up working for a fleapit Repossession Company in downtown LA. Here he learns that:
“a repo man spends his life getting into tense situations,”
and takes advice from wired men living off car fumes, speed and warm beer.

Things heat up when a Chevy Malibu glides into town, brimming with radiation and maybe containing ...]]></description>
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		<title>Why Tom Fallows is NOT Watching the WATCHMEN</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fallows</dc:creator>
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There are perhaps several reasons of why not to see this month's release of Warner Bros' WATCHMEN. Firstly it's produced by a major studio, who's risk aversion, play-it-safe strategy goes completely at odds with the narrative’s view of sadomasochistic superheroes (although they have thrown in some slow-mo violence so that probably made it ok).
 

Secondly it's directed by the fella who missed the point of Romero's DAWN OF THE DEAD and somehow managed to make Frank Miller's 300 even more fascistic (unbelievable I know). Add to that the fact that its been raped into a consumer cash cow (check out the Watchmen lunchboxes and Rorschach action figures!), been deemed unfilmible by genre heavy weight Terry Gilliam,  written by the guy who also penned THE SCORPION KING and, interestingly had Zach the director already tell us that the DVD will be better.
 
But, of course, none of this really matters. Any film, regardless of how auspicious the origins, has the potential to be worthwhile. After all, this is also a project based on the work of one of the greatest writers of the late 20th century. But then that's the problem, innit? Go and see the movie, and you won't find the name Alan Moore ...]]></description>
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