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From Masked Madmen to Benevolent Alien Clones: The Impressive Range of Cult Film Director John Carpenter

John Carpenter has produced an impressive body of work as a composer, director, producer, editor, and occasionally as a scriptwriter. He was a lifelong fan of science fiction novels, horror comic books, and classic westerns, he has managed to integrate thematic elements of all of these things into his work. Even though he’s experienced financial …

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Essential Viewing for fans of ‘The Last Stand’ – ‘The Good, The Bad, The Weird’ & ‘Assault on Precinct 13’

While The Last Stand didn’t make much of an impression on the box office, it still left many of us here at Sound On Sight praising director Jee-woon Kim’s effort. As the first Korean auteur to direct a large-scale Hollywood movie, Kim takes inspiration from classic American westerns, specifically Howard Hawks’ Rio Bravo. Apart from …

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Empire Presents Big Screen, Day 2: ‘Kill List,’ ‘Anonymous,’ ‘Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark,’ and more

One of the more interesting strands to Empire’s Big Screen programming for film fans who are a little longer in the tooth was the ‘classics’ strand, where movies that have proved enduringly popular with the magazines readership over the past twenty years were awarded a rare big screen outing. Inevitably the main buzz of activity for …

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