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1. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Mike McCahill

   Knightfall review – low-rent gender-flipped Bond knock-off swaps Aston Martins for Minis - AOL (opens the original)

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   Proceeding from an old-school title pun – yes, the heroine goes by the name Ros Knight – the latest from resourceful microbudget producer Jonathan Sothcott surely has one optimistic eye on filling the void left by the withdrawal of 007 from public life. Here is the gender-flipped Bond some have been seeking: the adventures of a no-nonsense, tough-talking security operative (Jeanine Nerissa Sothcott) who is tasked with recovering a lethal bioweapon pilfered from a scaled-down Porton Down during t

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2. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Mike McCahill

   Faces of Death review – rework of notorious video nasty turns horror voyeurism into moral panic fable - AOL (opens the original)

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   Emerging amid the original 1970s home-rental boom, John Alan Schwartz’s 1978 film Faces of Death was an ultra-morbid extension of the so-called “mondo” genre. Mashing up gruesome footage – much of it faked, some of it legit enough to provoke ghoulish chatter – it achieved sleepover notoriety and then received a further publicity boost upon making the DPP’s “video nasty” list. What comes now, nearly half a century later, is less a reboot than postmodern rethink. Daniel Goldhaber, who broke throug

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