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In "Slaughterhouse Five", Kurt Vonnegut raised a notion of a man "unstuck in time" now reworked in H'wood romance http://tinyurl.com/yfg2ymr 33 minutes ago from web
Character actor Harvey Keitel gave his most provocative and daring performance for maverick indie Abel Ferrara http://tinyurl.com/mkfjms 35 minutes ago from web
Europeanized Charles Bronson gangster film w/. wife Jill Ireland originally to have been directed by John Huston http://tinyurl.com/yzlgzcq about 1 hour ago from web
Not even a full frontal Richard Gere could turn this US remake of a French New Wave classic into a box-office hit http://tinyurl.com/ovfkly about 1 hour ago from web
Jackie Chan was taken on by Bruce Lee's US director for film intended to introduce him to US audiences & rival Lee http://tinyurl.com/lcu9rs about 1 hour ago from web
Charles Bronson brought his trademark vigilantism into the 80s with this serial killer film based on Richard Speck http://tinyurl.com/l9dfww about 1 hour ago from web
Dustin Hoffman & Jon Voight starred together in the first X-rated US film ever to win an Academy Award http://tinyurl.com/n4wsus about 2 hours ago from web
Underground comix legend Robert Crumb hated this movie version of his character so much that he killed the cat! http://tinyurl.com/r8bnnw about 2 hours ago from web
Children's TV sensation Charles (Rugrats) Svenson first tried adult R-rated animation based on undergound comix http://tinyurl.com/kplrgo about 2 hours ago from web
John Carpenter's anarchic sci-fi actioner boasted Kurt Russell's favorite characterization (as Snake Plissken) http://tinyurl.com/ngxlg3 about 4 hours ago from web
The sexual allure of Nazism/fascism was explored by director Tinto Brass in a study of Italian WW2 aristocracy http://tinyurl.com/pm8myu about 4 hours ago from web
Religious faith, totalitarianism and rationalist humanism in Tom Cruise WW2 action-thriller from X-Men director http://tinyurl.com/rcxayu about 5 hours ago from web
Childhood behavioural socialization vs. idealized conceptions of childhood "innocence" in humanist Holocaust drama http://tinyurl.com/p5ndag about 5 hours ago from web
Quentin Tarantino's post-modernist Inglor. Basterds was intended as a spaghetti western with Nazi WW2 iconography http://tinyurl.com/owfb5w about 5 hours ago from web
Spearheading US cinema of terrorism was 1970s thriller on fears of large scale attack by PLO's Black September http://tinyurl.com/oltdgl about 5 hours ago from web
@MicheleBlueston not to mention the systemic coverup of child sexual abuse by Catholic Priests over 30 yrs just now surfacing in Ireland about 5 hours ago from web in reply to MicheleBlueston
Oliver Stone's biopic of George W. Bush examines fusion of Church & State in US War on Terror era foreign policy http://tinyurl.com/pj9j53 about 5 hours ago from web
Aussie director Alex (The Crow) Proyas helms Nicolas Cage in sci-fi look at Judeo-Christian eschatological myths http://tinyurl.com/r9o7b2 about 5 hours ago from web
@Nicole_Hadaway yes Believers: had a theatrical run in the USA, but not here in Australia where it was an hidden-away video: I'm old too :) about 5 hours ago from web in reply to Nicole_Hadaway
Catholic apologia for paedophile priests and stem cell ethic restrictions informs faith issues in X-Files movie http://tinyurl.com/qqzub9 about 5 hours ago from web

Name Robert Cettl
Location Adelaide, South Australia
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Bio Author / editor / agent / librarian / e-book publisher. A rationalist / self-help / anti-censorship perspective on cinema, from Hollywood to Adult.