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Retard-o-Tron II – the mixtape madness continues

It’s big, it’s bad, and it’s BACK! ZXQL3000 and Cinema Sewer return to give us a second helping of video madness. If you’ve been living under a rock, on Mars, for the past while and never heard of Retard-o-Tron then … Continue reading

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The strange and bizarre world of handpainted movie posters in Ghana

The 1980′s brought video cassettes to the country of Ghana (West Africa). With VHS being (relatively) mobile, this made cinemas (relatively) mobile too. Small scale ‘cinemas’ (ie: some guys with a VHS player, a TV set and a generator) would … Continue reading

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Roel (ZXQL3000) Retard-o-Tron Interview. More mixtape madness!

Here we have an email interview with Roel, one of the (somewhat warped) masterminds behind the now legendary Retard-o-Tron mixtapes! My review of the first mixtape is here. How about a brief introduction of yourself? I’m Roel. What inspired you … Continue reading

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Cinema Sewer – Volume One

Cinema Sewer is a fanzine written, and self-published, by writer and comic book artist Robin Bougie (who also had a hand in the Retard-o-tron mixtape that I reviewed right HERE). Volume One takes all the best bits from the first … Continue reading

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Japanese Gameshows – Oh How I love You…

Our friends in the Far East certainly know how to keep themselves entertained. While we (in the UK) are ‘treated’ to dull, bland, shows – the Japanese have hilarious gameshows coming out their ears! I was inspired to write this … Continue reading

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The Perverts Guide To Cinema (2006) – Freudian psychoanalytic theory aplenty!

Running at just over two hours long, I expected The Perverts Guide To Cinema to be as dry, and exciting, as a 1970′s Open University lecture, but it’s actually really interesting and very well done. Presenter, Slavoj Zizek, is at … Continue reading

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JUNK Review

Junk has one the most most memorable tag lines I have ever seen, which is “Everybody Fights.”  It’s simple, to the point, and sums up everything this gem is all about.  Junk tells the story of a military experiment to … Continue reading

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Vinyan (2009) – extreme boredom cinema

Having seen Vinyan getting rave reviews and full page spreads in Fangoria, I was quite eager to see it. It has even been billed as being the first of a new wave in ‘extreme cinema’. A couple who lost their … Continue reading

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Friday the 13th: A Midnight Showing Fanboy Retrospective

Good day to you, fellow Midnighters, and welcome to my first ever Retrospective piece here for Midnight Showing.  I want to handle this a little differently than most “retrospective” pieces I see on the Internet.  Instead of simply trying to … Continue reading

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