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Rewind This!

Written by James Marsh on September 17, 2013 · Express an opinion
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Not to brag, but Josh Johnson’s nostalgic documentary about the death of the VHS era and many films along with it, is chock full of people I know. This not-so-strange phenomenon is helped by the fact that a large percentage of the film was shot in Austin, Texas and that many of the experts questioned […] Read more »

Categories: Watching-James - Tags: Cinema, Documentary, Josh Johnson, PiFan, rewind this!, USA

James Just Watched

Curse of the Malayan Vampire

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Quite possibly the weirdest film I’ve seen all year, which one would think would be reason enough to warrant some kind of recommendation. However, after a pretty gonzo horror-fuelled opening that sees the disembodied head of a female demon set up shop in a remote Malaysian village, the film takes a bizarre turn as the […] Read more »

Fernando Just Watched

Iceman

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Michael Shannon plays real-life hitman Richard Kuklinski in this terse, menacing and somewhat fragmented crime thriller. There’s no question Shannon can fill the screen with brooding menace and most of the film’s best scenes involve Shannon in highly charged exchanges with Ray Liotta, whose Roy DeMeo is both Kuklinski’s main employer and chief threat. They […] Read more »

Recent Podcasts

Dispatch 38 – Summer 2013 In Review

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The summer is over and we are back to consider the best films of the season. There were some surprise hits, a few disappointments and a lot [...] Read more »

Dispatch 37 – PiFan 2013 and Snowpiercer with Pierce Conran

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While Fernando is otherwise engaged relocating himself somewhere new in Asia, James is joined by special guest Pierce Conran ()[...] Read more »

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There was such a giddy sense of anticipation for Bong Joon-ho’s first English language film that ultimate disappointment seemed almost[...] Read more »

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Two office-bound slackers entice their workaholic friend to a resort, where they party hard, meet some beautiful women, stumble upon seedy u[...] Read more »

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After months of anticipation, Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim arrived in Hong Kong on a wave of muted praise and widespread disappointmen[...] Read more »

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In his latest outing as the loneliest dude in the world, Ryan Gosling plays Julian, an American expat living deep in the seedy underworld of[...] Read more »

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