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All Things Remembered

Goldie

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Who better to tell the story of the gentrification of a musical genre than the man who started out...

biography music

A Complete History of Tim (the Tiny Horse)

Harry Hill

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One very small horse takes on the world of radio, has a go at reality TV and ponders the meaning of...

Scotland's Jesus: The Only Officially Non-Racist Comedian

Frankie Boyle

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Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting...

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Videodrome (1983)

1983 | Horror, Sci-Fi

7.9

(14 Ratings)

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"David Cronenberg’s reflexive masterpiece of modern horror, with James Woods as a seedy purveyor of soft-core exploitation for cable TV, and Debbie Harry as his siren, brought the media-as-message theories of fellow Torontonian Marshall McLuhan to visceral life. This was one of the first movies I rented on VHS, and Videodrome is partly an exploration of the strange, clunky physical sensation attached to the idea of a feature film being available on a paperback-size plastic-and-tape cassette that is inserted into a machine . . . and our brains. A quarter century later, Cronenberg’s dazzling vision of a world where image and flesh are one—“long live the new flesh”—Videodrome’s futuristic vision is timelier than ever. And above all that, the movie is sexy, smart, funny, and fascinating, moving adeptly between its layers of reality, imagination, and that vast territory in between."

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