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  • Ten Great Irish Films for St Patrick’s Day (That Don’t Feature Leprechauns or John Wayne)

    Rachael Kelly presents a series of alternatives to ‘The Quiet Man’. … More Ten Great Irish Films for St Patrick’s Day (That Don’t Feature Leprechauns or John Wayne)

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  • Podcast – Fanomenal

    Podcast – Fanomenal

    Via everything from The X Files to Welsh rugby, ‘Fanomenal’ sees CinePunked’s Robert JE Simpson and special guest Dr Bethan Jones discuss the wide world of fandom including academic fandom studies, anti-fandom, gatekeeping and more. … More Podcast – Fanomenal

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  • Podcast – Meshes With Maya

    CinePunked’s Robert JE Simpson is joined by Dr Paula Blair for a conversation around their responses to the experience of influential, Ukranian-born, avant garde filmmaker Maya Deren, with particular attention to her debut Meshes of the Afternoon, and At Land. … More Podcast – Meshes With Maya

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  • Podcast – Testament d’Orphée

    Concluding their Orphic journey, Robert and Neil follow Jean Cocteau into the underworld for his cinematic farewell Testament d’Orphée – a complex, meta-layered film mixing poetry, time-travel, fact and fiction and the complexities of legacy. Will Neil make it through? Does any of it make sense? And how will the experience change the CinePunked team?…

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  • LIVESTREAM EVENT – CinePunked presents: In the Grip of Hammer II: Beyond Hammer Glamour

    Sunday 27 February 2022, CinePunked presents In the Grip of Hammer 2: Beyond Hammer Glamour. Continuing our series of CinePunked conversations with fans and enthusiasts, Robert JE Simpson, David L Rattigan and Penny Goodman will be exploring Hammer’s early vampire films. … More LIVESTREAM EVENT – CinePunked presents: In the Grip of Hammer II: Beyond…

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  • Podcast – Orphée

    Podcast – Orphée

    CinePunked continue their exploration of Jean Cocteau’s sublime Orphic Trilogy of films with a study of Orphée, in a conversation steering through love, legacy, sleep and death. … More Podcast – Orphée

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  • Podcast – The Blood of a Poet

    Have you ever stayed awake for three days and start hallucinating? If you have, you might just tap into the mindset behind Jean Cocteau’s influential avant-garde film Le Sang d’un Poète (aka. The Blood of a Poet). CinePunked look to the stars for guidance as they step through Cocteau’s mirror… … More Podcast – The Blood…

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  • Ten Great Anti-Valentine’s Day Love Stories

    Rachael Kelly presents an alternative to the kissy-kissy lovey-dovey stuff… … More Ten Great Anti-Valentine’s Day Love Stories

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  • Podcast – Don’t Have a Good Day… Have a Great Day!

    CinePunked’s Robert and Neil take a trip to Free City to explore the themes of free will and social revolution that lie hidden in the code of Ryan Reynolds vehicle Free Guy. … More Podcast – Don’t Have a Good Day… Have a Great Day!

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  • Podcast – You Die At Dawn

    CinePunked’s Robert and Rachael fight against the distorted reality of their own sleep deprivation for a conversation exploring the 1920 German Expressionist film classic The Cabinet of Dr Caligari – and its lasting impact on contemporary cinema and goth culture.  … More Podcast – You Die At Dawn

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