The Women in Prison genre is one that is greatly overlooked by most cinema fans. A subcategory of the more standard Exploitation scene, it rose to prominence in the 1960’s and 70’s. Hallmarks of the genre included wrongly convicted innocents, cruel masochistic wardens, vicious cat fights and occasionally a little bit of prison lovin’. They [...]
One artist who has taken the ready availability of kith and kin and put it to good use is the English artist Nigel Grimmer.
There is an element that lives inside Hoffine’s work that pushes you against a cold wall with a knife pressed firmly into your jugular
Above is the cover of Scroobius Pip’s new collection of illustrated poems, entitled ‘Poetry In (e)motion’. It is released in a week or so by Titan books and you should most definitely all buy yourselves a copy.
If it were the case in the 1930’s that the success of a man could be attributed to his acquisition of midgets, then Jed Buell was the Donald Trump of his day. ‘The Terror of Tiny Town’ features an ‘All Midget Cast’ of none other than ‘Jed Buell’s Midgets’. Yes folks, step right up to [...]
What could have possessed Browning to make such a bold cinematic statement that would have drastic results on what had been a lucrative career?
A black rabbit silhouetted against a darkened sky, caught in a vicious snare that will almost surely end his life by slow suffocation. This is not a PETA campaign poster, or an animal rights campaign, but the cover of a children’s movie.
Even though it’s not the weekend yet, I thought I’d help tackle the mid-week bues with, erm, some blues (and other great stuff too!).