RAGING BULL Production: USA, 1980 Director: Martin Scorsese Category: Violence If Martin Scorsese’s earlier Taxi Driver was largely concerned with violence and psychosis, Raging Bull – his biographical portrait of boxer Jake LaMotta – was almost purely about male violence and uncontrollable anger, both inside and outside the ring; not with Continue Reading
THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES
THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES Production: UK, 1971 Director: Robert Fuest Category: Horror Fuest cut his teeth on classic cult TV series The Avengers, directing such outstanding episodes as “Game”, “The Rotters”, and “They Keep Killing Steed”. Dr. Phibes is filled with similar flourishes of camp and the bizarre, utilising Vincent Price to Continue Reading