“You’ve been away ten years. The country’s changed. They got a new breed of cop, they’re everywhere. People got alarms, guns by their beds, dogs. They’re breeding giant Dobermans to tear your arms off. The real estate agents advertise these places in the papers. 24-hour-a-day armed guards, you gotta sign in and out. Some of these places got moats.”

Predating many of the later 70s paranoiac thrillers like The Conversation or The Parallax View, The Anderson Tapes certainly feels prophetic…

Mid aughts nu-metal cinema goes cross the pond to the UK to take on the scourge of football hooliganism. Glorious early digital color saturation, bizarro montage sequences, and hokey flash cuts that anticipate the later visual stylings of Miami Vice are all on display here. 

It makes so much sense that Rockstar Games executive produced this, as it is one of the better movies that runs entirely on video game logic. Everything feels like a mission to be completed, with the…

A spellbinding masterclass in lighting and projector rephotography packed with countless shots that frankly seem wholly impossible to capture. So many incredible sequences that feel not of this world in the best way possible. 

There is an immeasurable sense of restraint and slowness behind the camera from Teo here that is very unlike much of his shorter form work I’ve seen previously. This pace allows for the steady inscribing of a more tactile, textural quality to the images. The sheer…

Introduced by Cheyenne at the Roxy for Narrow Margin issue 3!

This 16mm print (amusingly titled “Dial Rat For Terror”!) cut out all the car accident shots in the opening monologue which is kinda fucked up because it’s one of my favorite bits in the movie but man this film still tears. 

Hilarious, biting, dense, and one of the few movies that is still able to get under your skin in a really transgressive and powerful way some 50 plus…