Death Proof first published by EyeforFilm, 5 September 2007 Comprising a double-feature of Quentin Tarantino‘s Death Proof and Robert Rodriguez‘s Planet Terror (as well as mock-up trailers during the intermission), Grindhouse was originally conceived as a grittily nostalgic revival of the whole ‘grindhouse’ experience – yet another groovy time-warp to add to the countless Noughties…
Dopesick – Season 1 first published by Sight and Sound, Winter 2021-22 issue Synopsis: 1986-2005, America. Purdue Pharma introduces the opioid Oxycontin to the market, falsely claiming it is non-addictive, and using seductive persuasion and threats to push doctors, and clinics to prescribe it in ever larger doses to patients in pain. A DEA agent…
First published by Sight & Sound, June 2015 Synopsis: New York City, present. Visiting from LA to promote his new, serious (and unappealing) historical film Uprize, comedian André Allen agrees to be interviewed by Chelsea Brown for a New York Times profile, despite having been mistreated in the past by the publication’s film critic James…