Screengem: The spittoon in Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
Old pals John Wayne (as Sheriff John T. Chance) and Ward Bond (as Pat Wheeler, soon to be murdered, shot…
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The bloody petri dishes in The Thing (John Carpenter 1982)
“Ya see, when a man bleeds, it’s just tissue, but blood from one of you Things won’t obey when it’s attacked. It’ll try and survive… crawl away from a hot needle, say.”
Lost Classic: Prince of Darkness (John Carpenter, 1987)
In his best films, John Carpenter straddles the fuzzy line between auteur and genre craftsman. This tendency is on full…
Music Matters: Christine (John Carpenter, 1983)
Detroit has produced many mean sounds in its volatile history – The Stooges and the MC5 to name but two…
Recommended: Deep Focus film book series published by Soft Skull Press
Deep Focus is a series of film books published by California based Soft Skull Press with a fresh approach. Take…
