Behind the scenes of ‘Cry-Baby’ with John Waters, Johnny Depp, Iggy Pop and Traci Lords
“There’s puke in it, you’ll be happy to know.”
Television
Unauthorized, unhinged, unforgettable: The ‘Charlie’s Angels’ TV trash that still slaps
Campy, sleazy, but undeniably entertaining.
What if Derek Raymond’s violent, bleak crime novels were made into a 1970s TV show?
Author and filmmaker Adam Scovell–whose second novel How Pale the Winter Has Made Us was published earlier this year to great acclaim–sent me this wonderful trailer…
EXP-TV: Freaktastic new video channel will rip your face off and eat your brain
There are certain things you don’t know you’re missing in life until you’re exposed to them, right? EXP TV just might be one of those…
The Montauk Project: The idiotic conspiracy theory that inspired ‘Stranger Things’
This is a segment from my Disinformation TV series that originally aired late nights on UK television’s Channel Four network in 2000 and 2001. This…
The story behind Michael Palin and Terry Jones’ comedy classic ‘Ripping Yarns’
Poor Terry Jones, what a fucking dreadful way to go. Dementia–which sick fucker came up with that one? Death’s a right evil bastard. My old…
Down the Rabbit Hole: Watch Jonathan Miller’s Swinging Sixties ‘Alice in Wonderland’
Jonathan Miller first considered the possibility of making a film of Lewis Carroll‘s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland during a party in the early 1960s. Miller…
When William S. Burroughs met Francis Bacon: Uncut
When William Burroughs met Francis Bacon a lot of tea was drunk, cigarettes smoked, a few secrets shared but very little was revealed about the…
An Exclusive introduction to Book of Shame: Acerbic rock for those ‘who’ve been through shit’
What are you gonna do when you’re on the back slice of life wondering where the fuck your dreams have all gone? Are you still…