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Author: Oluwatayo Adewole

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A still from Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives shows several red-eyed gorillas sitting in a misty forest, staring straight at the viewer.

2011

By Oluwatayo Adewole • April 26th, 2024

Tayo heads back to 2011, taking a look at two films which show us how the world beyond etches itself onto our reality.

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A shot from Wong Kar-wai's Fallen Angels shows a man leaning forward with a cigarette hanging from his mouth while a woman leans tenderly against his back.

1995

By Oluwatayo Adewole • February 28th, 2024

In both Fallen Angels and The Doom Generation we follow dreamers.

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A still from Saltburn shows the partially robed main character from behind, gazing outward across the lawn of a large estate scattered with the remnants of a wild party.

Sex and Cinema

By Oluwatayo Adewole • January 30th, 2024

At the same time as a quasi-accepting era which brings us more art focused on marginalized people, a soft Hayes Code re-emerges, allowing for the clean lines of queerness but not the smudges.

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Artwork from the poster for Apocalypse Now Final Cut shows Captain Benjamin Willard rising from the depths of a river, lit by contrasting blue and red light.

1979 2019

By Oluwatayo Adewole • December 1st, 2023

This month we turn our attention to Coppola’s 1979 epic Apocalypse Now, and more specifically to its 2019 Final Cut.

Funeral Rites

Campfire Carnage Conjures the Real Monsters

By Oluwatayo Adewole • October 25th, 2023

Campfire Carnage writer Valkyrie T. Loughcrewe sees potential for “campsite as being for horror games what a dungeon is to fantasy,” an iterative space through which you can tell all sorts of stories.

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1982

By Oluwatayo Adewole • August 30th, 2023

This month we step on over to 1982 to discuss two films which tell the stories of a Black relationship on each side of the Atlantic.

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Detail of the Penguin Classics cover of Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust, showing a bright graphic of orange, cream and blue zig-zagging lines and dots.

1934

By Oluwatayo Adewole • July 27th, 2023

In this case it seems dear reader, that the enemy of our enemy is not quite a friend – or at least they’re one who we shouldn’t invite to stay in our home.

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A close-up of Winston Duke in Nine Days, wearing silver-rimmed spectacles and a look of concern on his face.

You’ve Gotta Stop Living Like You’re Already Dead

By Oluwatayo Adewole • June 29th, 2023

What use is it to name the knife that slides between your ribs if you can’t let yourself be helped?

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A promo image for John Waters' Serial Mom showing the title character posed in front of a white picket fence in a cheery polka-dot dress. She smiles sinisterly while holding a knife above a pristine cherry pie, though the knife seems to already have some of the red filling smeared on the blade. Unless...

1994

By Oluwatayo Adewole • April 28th, 2023

The year of John Wayne Gacy’s execution, Jeffrey Dahmer’s baptism and John Waters’ suburban comedy Serial Mom.

Funeral Rites
Detail from the cover of Runecairn shows the skull and spine of a serpent's skeleton rendered in bright pink and purple inks.

After Ragnarok: Featuring Colin Le Sueur

By Oluwatayo Adewole • April 24th, 2023

It’s a bold move for Le Sueur to make a Norse-inspired Souls-like tabletop roleplaying game, and yet he manages to avoid some extremely fraught territory.

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