The Loved Ones first published by EyeforFilm “Have you heard about the lonesome loser Beaten by the queen of hearts every time? Have you heard about the lonesome loser? He’s a loser but he keeps on trying.” Sean Byrne’s feature debut The Loved Ones opens with these lyrics from Little River Band’s Lonesome Loser, playing…
Carrie fist published by Little White Lies, as entry 48 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column “Red. I might have known it would be red.” So says Margaret White – note the colour-coded surname – a sexually repressed religious zealot (played by Piper Laurie) under whose rigidly controlling single parentage teenaged Carrie (Sissy Spacek) has been brought…