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Notes on Streaming: CASTLEVANIA Animates the Right Buttons

As neither an anime buff nor a video game addict, Castlevania should be a perfect test case for the power of the algorithm. Supposedly, Netflix, the all-powerful and multinational streaming service, makes extensive use of algorithms to see what subscribers...

Wolves in Sheep Clothing (Genre as Sartorial Satire): Robin Hardy talks the Legacy of The Wicker Man the Timing of The Wicker Tree, and 40 years of History

It has indeed been nearly 40 years since the release of the British cult film about cults: The Wicker Man.  Director Robin Hardy has a fairly sparse resume in the ensuing years, only a single film, and a single TV...

Watch Twenty Five Minutes Of Robin Hardy In Coversation With Richard Stanley

In what was a both a remarkable and fortuitous collision of talents the 2011 edition of Montreal's Fantasia Festival played host to both Robin Hardy and Richard Stanley. Both of them enormous cult figures in the film community - Hardy...