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Cannibal: The Musical All singing! All dancing! All flesh eating! Before South Park, Trey Parker came up with the idea of doing a film about America's most notorious cannibal. With songs. Updated 09/08/1998
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A Clockwork Orange To mark the passing of director Stanley Kubrick, a look at his controversial adaptation of Anthony Burgess' novel of youthful unrest: the film that taught an entire generation of British schoolchildren to read Dutch subtitles. Updated 17/04/1999
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Dr Spank's DVD Clinic After months and months of buildup, here comes the inevitable crushing disappointment when you realise it's just a quick bit on how good DVDs are and a review of ten interesting ones. Updated 01/03/2000
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Fight Club The most aggressively anti-consumerist Hollywood movie of the 90s is released on DVD, and becomes the most lustfully desirable consumer item of the 00s. I am Jack's curiously warped sense of irony. Updated 01/08/2000
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From India With Love It's an Indian Summer, as Channel 4 keep telling us. So here's a look at three of the films which have taken Bollywood cinema from the inner city multiplexes to the Empire Leicester Square in the space of twelve months. Updated 01/08/2002
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The Infernal Affairs Trilogy The 2002 Hong Kong box office smash Infernal Affairs finally made it into British cinemas in February 2004. But by then, the film had grown into a trilogy, already available in its entirety on DVD. You don't have to watch them all on consecutive days like I did, but if you do, this is what it'll feel like. Updated 20/03/2004
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The Larry Cohen Collection Gods, Monsters and Big Black Men: all just grist to the mill for Larry Cohen, the hardest-working man in American movies. A look at three of his classics from the seventies and eighties, newly released on DVD by Blue Underground - Bone, God Told Me To and Q: The Winged Serpent. Updated 01/10/2003
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Not Available In The Shops Three movies: Brian Flemming's Nothing So Strange, Amber Benson's Chance and Behn Fannin's ...the making of... One thing in common: you've got to buy them directly from the filmmakers themselves. Should you fear the worst? Well, no. For the most part. Updated 01/10/2004
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The Russ Meyer Collection Fast editing and faster women are the key characteristics of the movies of Russ Meyer. For decades, the only way you could see them in the UK was in porn cinemas: now, at last, a dozen and a half of them can be bought on DVD from your local shop. So I did. Updated 08/10/2005
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VidBinge 2000 A look at the year 2000's best cinema releases, or at least the ones that have made it onto DVD. Warning: contains imagery that may be unsuitable for young children and fan clubs of female singer/songwriters. Updated 22/12/2000
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VidBinge 2001 Five of the best films of 2001 - oh, all right, four of the best films of 2001, plus Quills - as watched by Spank's Pals during our annual DVD slobfest. Updated 01/01/2002
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VidBinge 2002 Once again, Spank's Pals assemble for their annual vote of the best movies of the year, and then watch as many of them as they can over one day. What did they choose this time? Well, that image above may be some sort of clue, obviously. Updated 12/01/2003
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VidBinge 2003 They pick 'em, I flick 'em (or something): the annual get-together of Spank's Pals over four of the most interesting movies released in 2003, as revealed by that picture up there. I don't regret the change I made this year to use 120x120 squares for index images, but I'm afraid I can't make four DVD covers fit inside there in a more aesthetically pleasing fashion. Sorry. Updated 20/01/2004 |
VidBinge 2004 Ha! And you thought the writeup of my Pick Of The Year 2004 CD was late? Well, yes, I suppose it was. Though it's nothing like as bad as the six weeks that elapsed between my traditional end-of-year movie roundup party, and the date when I finally got around to writing about it. Updated 01/02/2005
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