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George White is a writer from Bray, a devotee of cultural detritus, strange films, strange TV, behind allnewbritishrubbish.blogspot.com, once did the Fortean Times, now off Twitter because he accidentally libelled several Irish music icons by repeating stuff he'd heard from Boards.ie/taxi drivers.

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Orlando, My Political Biography Belongs to be Streamed free on Youtube Rather than in a Cinema

George White Jul 4, 2024 0

In 1928, Virginia Woolf wrote Orlando, the story of a biologically male character who undergoes an organic change of sex, and keeps on undergoing a series of recurrent changes as they live a long life in multiple genders. There have been…

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Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1 | Old School Western Provides Perfect Antidote to CGI-Bloated…

George White Jun 28, 2024 0

Watching Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter One, I felt rather poignant. My late mother would have eaten this up, and I feel that this is a film, that despite suffering from the very modern Multiple Colon Syndrome in its title, is…

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50 Years in the Making | Stop-motion Fantasy Primevalshas Finally Emerged, but Was it Worth the…

George White Jun 18, 2024 0

There are two films this year that are being released that I first read about as a kid that I waited to see. One was Megalopolis, which as a ten year old I hoped Francis Ford Coppola would make. It took him another twenty years. The other…

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Minimalist Horror Is Really Rather Minimalist | House of Screaming Glass Review

George White May 21, 2024 0

One thing about being a journalist is you can get screeners of upcoming and independent films you wouldn't normally seek out. House of Screaming Glass is one of these films, a practically no-budget New York indie horror film. This is…

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Meet the Kick-Ass Hijras of Monkey Man | Bringing Trans Representation to the Spotlight!

George White Apr 19, 2024 0

George White had the amazing opportunity to talk to Dayangku Zyana and Pehan Abdul, two trans femme actors, who portray the hijras in Dev Patel's directorial debut Monkey Man. Pehan Abdul, Fahad Scale, Reva Marchellin, Vipin Sharma…

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All You Need is Death Movie Review | Utterly Unique and Unsettling Irish Folk Horror

George White Apr 18, 2024 0

Now, this reviewer has to admit. I have been waiting for this film for a long time. I've known the director, veteran documentarist/TV director Paul Duane (making his feature film debut) since I was a teenager, and because we're in the same…

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The Problem of Gatekeeping Irish Cinema | Can We Show Something Else?

George White Apr 12, 2024 0

So another year, so another St. Patrick’s Day, and what is RTE’s choice of Irish film to show on the Saturday night? Oh Christ, not The Snapper (1993) again… The fact is most Irish films don’t get much airplay on telly. You are far…

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Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life of Cliff Twemlow | A Touching Tribute to a Cult Hero

George White Nov 1, 2023 0

Cliff Twemlow may not be a name familiar to even ardent cineastes. If anyone is familiar with him, it may be more as a mythic figure. A proud Mancunian, Twemlow was a bodybuilder and nightclub bouncer in the northwest of England in the…

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Enter the Clones of BruceExplores the Frequently Bizarre Subgenre of Bruce Lee Knock-offs | IFI…

George White Oct 29, 2023 0

Having done various breezy documentaries on off-beat cinema stories including video nasties (2004's Ban the Sadist Videos), Dan Curtis (2019's Master of Dark Shadows), Al Adamson (2019's Blood and Flesh), Nottingham lad David Gregory and…

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Robert Rodriguez’s Twisty Thriller Hypnotic Will Leave You Nauseous

George White May 29, 2023 0

The sort of DTV filler that invariably goes straight to Redbox and stars Frank Grillo or Chad Michael Murray, usually produced by Grindstone or Emmett-Furla, with a headline cameo from Bruce Willis, Robert DeNiro or John Malkovich. This…

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