UK General Election 2024 - July 4th - Drowning In Effluence

So Rishi Sunak has finally called a General Election before the Conservatives completely bleed out and devour each other like the evil self serving parasites they are. The PM is hoping to blindside the opposition by being first out of the election gate, launch a personal smear campaign against Keir Starmer, announce another wave of attacks on the poor, disabled and mentally ill, then dangle hundreds of tax cutting policies and lies. Anything to cling to power and please his party before his own colleagues show him the door or the electric chair, whichever comes first.

Let’s pray the long suffering public have finally woken up to 15 years of broken promises, broken public services, broken government, and vote for anyone else. History is our teacher and we must all remember and remember well : Government Covid parties, Brexit, environmental disaster and water pollution, the cost of living crisis, attacks on the poor, mentally ill and disabled, PPE scandals, post office scandals, NHS defunding and cannibalisation, GCSE exam scandals, Levelling Up, the list goes on and on.

People struggling to feed their familes with food banks in a cost of living crisis will have little empathy for a Billionaire PM whose wife famously evaded taxes and has shown his true environment colours by granting new oil and gas offshore drilling permits and coal mines, despite promising his own children a better environment when he first came to office. And Boris Johnson will no doubt already be plotting to rejoin the Tory party amid the extreme right wing madness of Liz Truss’s cabal of followers, by becoming its leader once again, and lead the faithful into oblivion.

A Labour party poised to fix public services and eat the rich is our last best hope before Not So Great Britain flushes itself down the toilet of Tory corruption and ineptitude to join the effluence allowed to be pumped into our rivers and seas by water companies and regulators. It will not be an easy ride for whoever inherits the Tories mess but as PM Clement Attlee proved after WW2, when he created the National Health Service and nationalised major industries and public utilities, lives can be rebuilt, and a new future won.

The horror show must stop. The government is not fit to govern.

The Tory party must die.

Vote them out.

Dario Argento Panico Documentary [2023]

Dario Argento is finally being recognised by his peers for his groundbreaking contribution to filmmaking with Simone Scafidi’s upcoming Panico documentary celebrating his work at the Venice Film Festival.

The documentary finds the director writing a film script for his latest venture in a hotel and offers “an immersive deep dive into the creative process and life of Argento and features exclusive interviews with the legendary filmmaker and insight from other acclaimed directors like Gaspar Noé, Guillermo del Toro and Nicolas Winding Refn about his impact on the horror genre and generations of other directors.”

Watch the Dario Argento Panico promo trailer below:

Dario Argento : Doors Into Darkness - BFI Film Festival

Dario Argento is finally being recognised by the BFI for his outstanding body of work and contribution to filmmaking with an upcoming retrospective film festival of his greatest, and latest work.

This long overdue respect has finally extended beyond the horror community and led to the BFI curating a Dario Argento film festival at London’s South Bank from May 12th, thanks to season programmer Michael Blyth’s upcoming celebration of his work. The month long programme will include a rare live interview with Dario Argento in discussion with Prano Bailey-Bond about his screen career, Q&A discussions, films rarities, and film introductions from the great auteur himself.

Films:

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
The Cat o’ Nine Tails
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
The Five Days (a forgotten rarity)
Deep Red (including Q&A with the director)
Suspiria (including a personal introduction by the director)
Inferno
Tenebrae (including a personal introduction by the director)
Phenomena
Opera (including a personal introduction by Michael Blyth)
Trauma
The Stendhal Syndrome
The Phantom of the Opera
Sleepless
The Card Player
Do You Like Hitchcock?
Mother of Tears – The Third Mother
Dark Glasses

The entire season programme can be found here:

https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam%3A%3AWScontent%3A%3AloadArticle%3A%3Apermalink=darioargento

The main event takes place on Friday May 12th and tickets are available from the link below:

https://southbanklondon.com/events/bfi-southbank/dario-argento-doors-darkness

Watch the BFI promo trailer below:

Dario Argento - Doors Into Darkness

Dario Argento Returns To Giallo With 'Dark Glasses' [2022]

Legendary Italian horror film director Dario Argento returns to the giallo genre with his latest film, ‘Dark Glasses.’

Despite Argento’s career flatlining in his later years with ‘Giallo’ and ‘Dracula 3D’ resembling all the passion and production values of 1990’s made-for-TV movie, I’m seriously excited that ‘Dark Glasses’ may at least show some return to form. His framing of imagery and murder set pieces are unrivalled, even today, so there’s always the possibility of a late spark of genuine creativity from Argento as he returns to return to the giallo genre that made his name.

Ilenia Pastorelli and Asia Argento star in his latest and possibly last feature film. The film’s protagonist is Diana, a luxury escort, who loses her sight in a car crash while escaping the ‘Cello’ serial killer in Rome. Blind and scared, Diana must learn to start a new life and escape the killer’s clutches with the help of her suport worker, Rita. But the killing spree has only just begun.

Watch the Dark Glasses Italian trailer below: