Few cultural scraps are as redolent of lo-fi VHS genre pleasures than a movie trailer with JOHN CARPENTER’s (born 1948) name above the title and his own analog synth score. Carpenter’s breakthrough was Dark Star (1974), a wiseass repudiation of 2001: A Space Odyssey’s intergalactic awe. Bits of the movie’s code can be discerned in…
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The Year Of The Sex Olympics
by Matthew De Abaitua •
Nigel Kneale’s anticipates the nasty underbelly of reality television with this BBC play, reviewed by Matthew De Abaitua
