Contributor Sam Moore

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Spectacles of suffering and fascism in cinema

by Sam Moore

Across the cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Guillermo del Toro and Brady Corbet, the evils of fascism come to light in horrifying detail.
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Not Movies

Has WWE become another cog in the Netflix machine?

by Sam Moore

As WWE enters its Netflix Era, there's an awful lot of "brand synergy" – and it's becoming a distraction.
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Not Movies

Because The Internet: the cursed, perverse realities of Adult Swim infomercials

by Sam Moore

On the late night programming block of an American television channel a series of bleak parody shorts riff on the relationship between the internet and spectatorship.
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In Praise Of

How Saving Private Ryan changed the war movie

by Sam Moore

Twenty-five years on, Steven Spielberg's World War Two epic completely revolutionised the way Hollywood thought about depicting conflict on screen.
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In Praise Of

The unlikely prescience of Spring Breakers

by Sam Moore

A decade since its release, Harmony Korine's hedonistic vision of a fraught Floridian vacation feels like it foreshadowed plenty about contemporary pop culture.
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In Praise Of

John Carpenter’s Apocalypse Trilogy and the end of faith

by Sam Moore

As The Thing turns 40, its place within Carpenter's exploration of spiritual breakdown has never felt more prescient.
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In Praise Of

Why Meiko Kaji’s cult characters are still subversive in their strength

by Sam Moore

As Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion turns 50, Meiko Kaji's feminist action heroines are as thrilling to watch as ever.
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Interviews

Braxton Pope: ‘You’re never caught off guard with Paul’

by Sam Moore

The producer of The Canyons and The Card Counter reflects on his experience working with one of Hollywood’s most outspoken auteurs.
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In Praise Of

The radically non-binary nature of Sally Potter’s Orlando

by Sam Moore

Thirty years after it was released, the British director’s take on Virginia Woolf’s novel is a powerful study of self-identity.
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Not Movies

It’s a Sin shows the tragic consequences of misinformation

by Sam Moore

Russell T Davies’ landmark AIDS drama reveals how confusion and fear gripped gay men in 1980s.
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In Praise Of

How Derek Jarman’s films queer the narrative of history

by Sam Moore

In 1976’s Sebastiane and 1986’s Caravaggio, the director refuses to relegate homosexuality to the subtext.
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In Praise Of

Why Sunset Boulevard remains a glorious Gothic horror

by Sam Moore

Billy Wilder’s classic Hollywood satire from 1950 is also a great post-modern ghost story.

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