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The Ogre of Athens is a 1957 crime drama from Greece directed by Nikos Koundouros (Young Aphrodites, 1922 and The River). The film stars Dinos Iliopoulos (The Wise Guy, Radio Moscow and Oi Kyries tis Avlis), Margarita Papageorgiou (Windfall in Athens, The Magic City and The Happy Beginning), Giannis Argyris (I Am Innocent, Dating Agency and Love and Blood), Thanasis Vengos (It’s A Mad, Mad Vengos, The Charlatan and Ulysses’ Gaze) and the enchanting Marika Lekaki in her only film role.
20 Jul 2026
Vacant Align Interview
Active since October 2025, Wisconsin’s Vacant Align is one of the more atmospheric and texturally inventive wall noise projects to appear in some time. It’s a project that takes its time in releasing work, and you can certainly hear it, as each of their releases so far is a perfectly crafted blend of expressive and engaging textures. Behind the project is John Engman, who very kindly agreed to give us an email interview
24 Jun 2026
I Married A Strange Person is a 1997 animated feature from legendary illustrator, director and animator, Bill Plympton (Cheatin’, Guard Dog and Idiots and Angels). Plympton’s illustrations have graced the pages of some of the world’s most renowned publications, including The New York, Vogue, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and Penthouse, to name a few. The relatively unknown voice cast includes Charis Michelson (Bringing Out the Dead, The Wonder Boys and High Art), Tom Larson (this remains his only feature film), Richard Spore (Bringing Out the Dead, Picture Perfect and Law and Order), Chris Cooke (Better than Ever, Trust and The Unbelievable Truth), J.B. Adams (Far From Heaven, Limetown and Bear City 3) and Ruth Ray (Desecration , The Tree and an episode of Sex in the City).
Purgate is the project of Frederic Arbour, who has a background in techno music but has decided to branch out into more experimental territory with his latest music. Leavings is an album of surreal, resonant flickers, ambient feedback effects and granular synthesis for fans of minimal post-industrial soundscape artists like Nocturnal Emissions, David Lee Myers or Aube. The sound is texturally rich, with a pulsing, throbbing repetition, but there are no formal drums.
Danza Macabra Vol. Four: The Italian Gothic Collection — Danza Macabra Vol. Four( Blu Ray boxset)
15 Jul 2026Äxe — Autogeddon
15 Jul 2026Mnemonist Orchestra — Mnemonist Orchestra
14 Jul 2026Bourbonese Qualk — My Government Is My Soul
14 Jul 2026Red Rabbit Lodge — Red Rabbit Lodge (DVD)
13 Jul 2026La Tête Contre Les Murs — La Tête Contre Les Murs ( Blu Ray)
10 Jul 2026Half Movement / Sado Rituals — Strategy & Tactics
10 Jul 2026No Fun HNW/ TÔLE-ACHE — Split
10 Jul 2026
Jasper Sharp interview
In the year 1971, Nikkatsu, the oldest/ at one point, the biggest film production company in Japan. Did something quite daring/ some would say crazy- they completely switched over their production to softcore adult films, which would become known as Roman Porno. Between 1971 and 1988, the company produced around 850 of these titles. The thing that made these films stand out from general softcore films is the often creative & inventive choices made- yes, the films primal focus is sleaze, but great examples of the genre are so much more than that. In the last year or so, there has been a spate of reissues of films in the genre from labels such as 88 Films, Third Window Films, and Klubb Super 8. One of the key figures/contributors behind these releases is Jasper Sharp- one of the world's experts on the genre, and the wider Pink genre it’s connected to. Jasper kindly agreed to give us an email interview discussing his history with the genre, his contributions to releases, and the new/updated edition of his book Behind The Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema on Fab Press.
King Futile Interview
King Futile is the new project from Scotland-based Lea Cummings( Kylie Minoise, Official Music Team, etc), and it’s a big departure from his normal noise or retro sample & electronica sound. It's lo-fi acoustic music, with an outsider feel, and often quite tongue-in-cheek/ sharply sarcastic tone to the lyrics. So far, the project has put out three albums- Casual Misery, How To Have Fun, and Zen As Fuck. I tracked down Lea for an email interview.
Cliff Twemlow On Severin
One of last year’s real big surprises in the world of Blu-ray box sets was Bloody Legend: The Complete Twemlow Collection, as it was a wholly entertaining, fascinating, and at times heart-warming set. The Severin released boxset brought together the work of one of the UK’s unlikeliest movie moguls- Cliff Twemlow, a Mancunian bouncer/ body builder, who went on to write/star in/produce a series of low-budget/ largely SOV films in the early 80s to early 90s- these moved between action, thriller, sci-fi, and horror. His most notable/notorious film was 1983’s G.B.H., which landed on the video nasty list, though he was connected to other ten feature films, many of which got their first real full/proper release on the boxset. Opening up the set was the excellent 2023 documentary Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life of Cliff Twemlow, which really pulls you into the set. I caught up with Severn’s David Gregory and Jake West, director of Mancunian Man, to discuss the boxset and all things cliff.
The Fall
MES( Mark E Smith- The Falls main creator) possessed the ability to cram phrases into impossible spaces - “I’m hunting and I’m trying to find” delivered as “hut’na tryna find”; the eight-syllable “mere pseud mag editor’s father” hastily squeezed into a manipulation of time and space, heralded by the prior line “twice each at least”, the latter naturally repeated thrice.
