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Illustration depicting a close-up of a fantasy warrior figure with a face painted in bold, vibrant colours of blue, yellow, and red. The figure wears ornate, armoured clothing.
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Life is a B-Movie: Joe D’Amato’s Bizarre Prophecy of 2025

by Mila Fielker

A dystopi­an retro-future of tele­path­ic mutants, glad­i­a­tors and fas­cists – does Joe D’Amato’s vision of 2025 show any resem­blance to our cur­rent reality?
Collage of stills from a film; includes woman in red coat, people embracing, child making surprised expression, cityscape, and text 'Elinore Cafeteria'.
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The New Bootlegs: Open Matte Films & Unofficial Scans

by Lexie Corbett

The unof­fi­cial, often open mat­te scans of these films pre­serve a tac­tile his­to­ry of cin­e­ma in its imper­fect totality.
Collage featuring 1960s pop culture icons including a girl group and a female singer with long dark hair.
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When pop stars become auteurs

by Anna McKibbin

The visu­al album is a key, genre-defy­ing ves­sel for pop music titans trans­fer­ring the sym­bol­ic pow­er of their music to image-making.
A black and white portrait of a man playing a harp, surrounded by large pink flowers.
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The Beautiful and the Pointless

by Esmé Holden

If sex scenes, or any oth­er type of scene, don’t need to serve the plot, do they need to serve any­thing at all?
Detailed illustration of a trio of figures in a surreal, purple-toned fantasy scene featuring geometric shapes and patterns.
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The complicated legacy of heavy metal in cinema

by Sarah Cleary

Met­al is often giv­en short shrift at the movies, but a hand­ful of great auteurs have used the genre and its sub­cul­ture to bril­liant effect.
Two figures, one in a teal hooded top and the other in a vibrant red and white dress, standing against a vivid crimson background.
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Feeling Seen: On the possibilities of found footage horror

by Alison Rumfitt

Recent entries to the sub­genre of found footage hor­ror attest to its appeal to queer film­mak­ers and audi­ences alike.
A man in a coat stands at the front of a classroom, addressing students seated in colourful chairs.
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Cinematic Investigations: At the Picturehouse with Wittgenstein

by Lillian Crawford

A film crit­ic traces the con­nec­tions between philoso­pher Lud­wig Wittgenstein’s escapist eccen­tric­i­ties and her own for­ma­tive expe­ri­ences as a cinephile.