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Rogue Director MJ Bassett’s Top Five Action Movie Influences

20th November 2020Ken Wynne

With explosive set-pieces and a horde of rampaging wild animals, former wildlife photographer MJ Basset delivers a killer slice of action cinema, with a shrewd critique of poaching and the black-market animal trade. To celebrate the release of Rogue, director MJ Basset tells us her top five action movie influences.

“There’s no point blowing stuff up if the characters around the explosion aren’t of consequence.”

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The Playback Collective 1970s/80s Style Trailers for the VHS Generation

1st February 2018Ken Wynne

Shortly after Mad Max: Fury Road was released to theaters, an edited version of the original theatrical trailer was uploaded online, stylistically changing the tone of Fury Road to something one would expect to see at the grindhouse.

Since then The Playback Collective have created three more trailers in a similar vein; designed to take you back a few decades into the past.

“Maybe it was those torn cheesy covers of old VHS horror films that were prohibited by mom and dad. It was something about those years, those years that had to be played back.”

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“There’s no point blowing stuff up if the characters around the explosion aren’t of consequence.”

“Maybe it was those torn cheesy covers of old VHS horror films that were prohibited by mom and dad. It was something about those years, those years that had to be played back.”

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