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Recommended | Saturday, 06 February 2010 Written by Emma Simmonds

Recommended: Flesh for Frankenstein (Paul Morrissey, 1973)

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To complement her Terror Vision article in Issue 6 of The Big Picture print edition, Emma Simmonds recommends one of the flashiest and trashiest of 3-D horror films.

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Features | Saturday, 30 January 2010 Written by Sean Wilson

The Score: Rambo: First Blood Part II (Composer: Jerry Goldsmith, 1985)

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If ever a film made guys want to run around topless with a gun and a bandanna, Rambo:First Blood Part II was it - and Jerry Goldsmith's ridiculously macho CD cover (not to mention the music!) confirms the suspicion. Sly Stallone's second outing as John 'get an extra supply of body bags' Rambo was a very different beast from the taut, riveting original, instead amping up the action to cartoonish proportions and presenting a laughably unreconstructed view of Russian and Vietnamese villains.

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Interviews | Monday, 25 January 2010 Written by John Berra

Shadow Play: An Interview with Josh Whiteman

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The celebrated photographer Anton Corbijn has shot portraits of such icons of the music world as Bono, David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, Elvis Costello, Miles Davis, Iggy Pop, Frank Sinatra and Michael Stipe. Now, the revealing documentary Shadow Play focuses on the man behind the camera to probe the restless personality of an artist who, through his photographic studies of celebrity, has become something of a star himself.

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Features | Thursday, 14 January 2010 Written by Chris Barraclough

On Location: Still Shining after 30 years

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Thirty years have passed since Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of the Stephen King novel first hit the box office, to a rather lukewarm reception from both critics and the horror author himself. King made no secret of his displeasure at several aspects of the film, famously stating: "The real problem is that Kubrick set out to make a horror picture with no apparent understanding of the genre."

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