Released to Blu-ray on Studio Canal’s Cult Classics label comes a rip-roaring Spaghetti Western from 1968, Enzo G. Castellari’s wonderfully titled Kill Them All and Come Back Alone starring Chuck Connors, the rangy former basketball and baseball player and star of popular Western TV serials The Rifleman and Branded and […]
Mark Cunliffe
Mark's first cinematic experience was watching the Cannon and Ball vehicle, The Boys in Blue. He hasn't looked back since. Hailing from Lancashire, he is an occasional contributor to Arrow DVD, writing booklet inlay essays on a variety of titles, including Children of Men and The Day of the Jackal. He has also written a chapter for Ste Brotherstone and Dave Lawrence's book, Scarred For Life Vol II. He is often found on Letterboxd, has appeared on the Talking Pictures podcast and also writes for We Are Cult. Most recently, he has been appearing on The Geek Show's Pop Screen podcast.
Wild Things (1998) 90s Hollywood or Hollyoaks Later? (Review)
Nobody Loves You and You Don’t Deserve to Exist (2022) A Pilgrim’s Progress from Thatcher to Covid (Review)
Revolver (1973) Hard-edged, Pessimistic, Buddy Cop Crime Thriller (Review)
Coach to Vienna (1966) Defying the Perceived Wisdoms of WWII (Review)
A Time for Dying (1969) Audie Murphy’s Last Stand (Review)
The Devil’s Trap (1962) Avante Garde sounds and visions in this slyly clever satire (Review)
Crazy Thunder Road (1980) Japan’s Mad Max or Generational Clash? (Review)
Released to Blu-ray this week by the Third Window Films label, Crazy Thunder Road is the breakthrough movie of Gakuryu, the artist formerly known as Sogo Ishii. A high-octane and proudly (cyber)punk movie, Crazy Thunder Road was actually the filmmaker’s graduation project. So impressive was it deemed for a student […]
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982) An Obscure Take on the Traditional British Murder Mystery Novel (Review)
The British film industry of the late twentieth century is one that I am deeply fascinated by. From the early 1970s onwards, it was an industry cash-strapped by Hollywood’s decision to return home after rinsing the profitable new wave/kitchen sink/swinging London milieus of the previous decade. Compelled to either emulate […]