Category Archives: TV
Mindhunter – intellectual pulp.
We all find serial killers fascinating, and the odder their motivations and crimes are, the better. A quote from Fight Club, a film principally about psychosis induced by immersing one’s self in a materialistic life, explains this intrigue, ‘only when … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's, Bill, Deviant behaviour, Edmund Kemper, FBI Profiling, Fight Club, Flat tops, Holden, Intellectual Pulp, It's always something to do with the mum, Lecter-lite, Materialism, Mindhunter, Necrophilia in the Trailer Park Boys, Netflix, Psychology, Pulp, Serial Killers, TV, Wendy
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Stranger Things – The X-Files meets the Goonies
Everyone’s experienced that specific frustration – an embittered envy that occurs when someone else has thought of something that should’ve been obvious to you before the fact. Take any ubiquitous modern technology; say Smartphones, they’re so practical and indispensable to … Continue reading
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Tagged Beetlejuice, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Edward Scissorhands, Escapism, Fandoms, Fox Mulder, Heathers, Homages, I want to believe, Joy Division, Matthew Modine, Monotonprodukt 07, Netflix, Nostalgia, Stranger Things, The Bunker brothers are bastards for thinking of this first, The Clash, The Evil Dead, The Goonies, The Smiths, TV, Winona Ryder's terrible wig, X-Files
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Gomorra – this is ‘real greaseball shit’
One of the best sequences and lines in movie history comes from Goodfellas. Henry Hill, played by Ray Liotta, narrates over the death sequence of his friend Tommy DeVito, who, thinking he’s going to get made, is murdered in revenge … Continue reading
Fargo – uniquely reimagined.
First, a confession – I only finished watching both seasons of Fargo the television series this week. Had I read the reviews, which I don’t, yet in partial hypocrisy I’m writing one here (partial, as nobody will read this), I … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Bob Thornton, Ed & Peggy Blumquist, Fargo, Furries, Hank Larsson, Hanzee Dent, Jabberwocky, Jerry Springer, Kansas City mob, Lester Nygaard, Lorne Malvo, Lou Salverson, Mike Milligan, Minnesota winters, North Dakota accents, Rubicon, The Gerhardt family, True Detective, TV
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