If Quentin Tarantino directed ‘Ghostbusters 3’
This could be a highly watchable cinematic mash-up of blood, guts and spooky goings-on: Quentin Tarantino directs Ghostbusters 3, as imagined by claymation wizard Lee…
Author: Paul Gallagher Archives: 06/2014
Vintage smut from the 1950s-70s
Once upon a time, porn was kept on the top shelf, or under-the-counter, in discrete brown paper bags, or sent by post in anonymous manilla…
Why are these ‘Hellraiser’ VHS tapes being left at bus stop on London’s Old Kent Road?
Three years ago, a VHS cassette copy of Clive Barker’s 1980’s horror film Hellraiser appeared on the top of a bus shelter on London’s Old…
Ernest Hemingway’s reading list for a young writer, 1934
In 1934, a young student Arnold Samuelson read Ernest Hemingway’s short story “One Trip Across.” Inspired by what he had read, the 22-year-old decided to…
Surrealism founder André Breton’s apartment is a museum in its own right
I wonder: did André Breton enjoy housework? He must have spent many an hour cleaning and tending to the dust that surely gathered on all…
DM interviews Alex van Warmerdam, director of the surreal thriller ‘Borgman’
With his latest movie Borgman, award-winning Dutch filmmaker Alex van Warmerdam has created a dark, comic, incredibly thrilling, and haunting tale that holds the attention…
‘Axe murder’ on Google Street View solved
An “axe murder” that was captured on Google Street View has been solved by police. The images which were spotted on Street View appeared to…