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10 Cloverfield Lane (Dan Trachtenberg 2016)
Ever wonder what other new Stephen King books or stories are being brought to the big screen nowadays? Except of Cell (2016) I really dunno of anything. Another explanation may be the fact that this whole SK spirit has been spread out – absorbed by others nowadays. 10 Cloverfield Lane is a new mystery horror
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The Man in the High Castle (TV series season 1&2 after 1962 book by Philip K Dick)
Arguably The Man in the High Castle is the TV series of a particular alternate moment in our history. It is as if the popularity this series enjoys is just one facet of a constant up-swell, not only a dilation of the Overton Window that now celebrates identity politics, but also a genuine ‘hyernormalization’ of nationalism, islamophobia,
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The Jupiter Menace (1982 documentary by Lee Auerbach and Peter Matulavich)
The Jupiter Menace is an incredible rare documentary (it was even difficult to find a proper cover). One could really speculate why – and it is really fun to enumerate the options. Some may say it’s either because it is a complete bogus story of end-of-the-world millenarian conservative Christian radical trash or maybe even because it’s an
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The Lift/De lift [Dick Maas 1983]
The Lift is an incredible slick horror, neon-drenched 80s movie, perfect for late-night watching by dutch director Dick Maas [Amsterdamned 1988]. I would associate it with such weird midnight circuit movies as X-TRO [Harry Bromley Davenport 1982] or new flesh Videodrome – a style celebrated by Panos Cosmatos in Beyond the Black Rainbow. The Lift