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Is Rocky Horror Picture Show the perfect Halloween movie?
At the climax of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) the late Tim Curry as Dr Frank N Furter stands dressed to the nines in corset and heels, gloves and furs.
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Film and TV at The Cold Magazine. Directors and writers in conversation, festival dispatches from Venice to Berlin, and the releases shaping what a generation watches.
Cult classic horror films to watch this Halloween
With Halloween fast approaching, you might be looking to settle in with a classic scary movie.
Anthony Boyle, Lola Petticrew and Jay Lycurgo will break your hearts in I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
The stars of Clio Barnard’s I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning talk to COLD about friendship – in and out…
Blue Velvet is 40 and we still can’t look away
David Lynch's portrait of suburban American and its festering violence has turned 40. Is it as relevant as ever?
60 years after the Battle of Algiers, anti-colonialist cinema is more relevant than ever
Since its release, filmmakers and revolutionaries alike have cited The Battle of Algiers as essential viewing to better understand contemporary…
Bloody Tennis, the body horror film you were starving for
In the world of Bloody Tennis, winning becomes a totalising mindset, pushing the girls to annihilate not only their opponents…
Pulp: what do you do for an encore? Myth and archive with director Garth Jennings
"I first saw Jarvis when I was at art school. There was a coffee bar close to where my school…
Armenia’s diaspora came together for Yerevan’s Golden Apricot International Film Festival
In mid-July, over a week’s worth of humid summer evenings in three of Yerevan’s Soviet-era cinemas were spent, while enduring…
On cosmic connections and positive masculinity with ‘You Can’t Fly’ Documentarians
“Don’t get tiny in your mind, don’t get tiny”: taking on the manosphere and disassembling it with cosmic abundance and…
Exclusive: Locarno Film Festival interview with Giovanni Tortorici on Ketticè
“The mindset, which means how you work, what stories you want to tell, how you interpret reality”: Monica Bellucci won…
Recommending Takashi Miike movies based on your favourite Charli XCX song
Exciting news for fans as Charli XCX joins Takashi Miike for a new slasher film project set in Kyoto. Learn…
Apple TV’s Cape Fear writer Nick Antosca Talks Villains
Apple TV's Cape Fear writer Nick Antosca talks villains: rebooting the Southern Gothic bogeyman for a new series.
Unethical non-monogamy: 30 years of Crash
Unethical non-monogamy: 30 years of David Cronenberg's Crash, the 1996 Cannes scandal that still provokes.
