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Cian Tsang

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United Kingdom
As seen in: The Guardian, Paste, Vague Visages, The Spool
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Cian Tsang’s Biography

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Freelance film writer based in the UK, with a particular interest in unearthing and re-evaluating under-appreciated B-movies.

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How You Can Count on Me Let Mark Ruffalo Be His Combustible Best

How You Can Count on Me Let Mark Ruffalo Be His Combustible Best

Mark Ruffalo is a powerhouse actor more recently trapped in superhero fluff, but You Can Count On Me captured…

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How Gerald Kargl's Angst Pushed the Boundaries of the Home Invasion Movie

How Gerald Kargl's Angst Pushed the Boundaries of the Home Invasion Movie

While something like The Strangers recedes rapidly from memory, Angst thrums with possibility, redefines the …

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Why Shaolin Soccer is the greatest football movie ever made

Why Shaolin Soccer is the greatest football movie ever made

By combining his signature absurdist style and sincerity with the beautiful game, Stephen Chow created an exh…

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REVIEW: Suitable Flesh Pays Demonic Tribute to a Grandmaster of Goop - Blood Knife

REVIEW: Suitable Flesh Pays Demonic Tribute to a Grandmaster of Goop - Blood Knife

Suitable Flesh is a sleazy, sticky, psychosexual love letter to Stuart Gordon's Lovecraft-fueled heyday.

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Dream Demon: Between Fantasy and Nightmare - Blood Knife

Dream Demon: Between Fantasy and Nightmare - Blood Knife

Harley Cokeliss's 1988 horror-fantasia straddles the line between art and exploitation, with profound results.

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Santa Sangre: Finding Salvation in Sacrilege - Blood Knife

Santa Sangre: Finding Salvation in Sacrilege - Blood Knife

Alejandro Jodorowsky's surreal horror masterpiece finds religious ecstasy in the profane.

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Savouring the Lean Thrills of "Tremors"

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Read also: the best live TV streaming services with free trial> The first act of Ron Underwood’s Tremors is punctuated with the distinctive sounds of a boy bouncing his basketball, a faulty beer cooler in a general store, and a girl playing on her pogo stick. It’s all seemingly innocuous at first—just the regular sounds of everyday life in the isolated town of Perfection, Nevada.
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"Re-Animator" revisited: Stuart Gordon’s masterpiece lives on

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The Spool / Anniversaries “Re-Animator” revisited: Stuart Gordon’s masterpiece lives on Read also: the best live TV streaming services with free trial> Before the opening credits of Stuart Gordon’s directorial debut Re-Animator have even rolled, the film has already erupted into hideous absurdity.
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Cian Tsang on Vicious Insecurity in Mike Leigh's 1993 Movie

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No other film has dissected narcissistic masculinity with the same gashing incisiveness as Naked, Mike Leigh’s stygian vision of injured ego spiralling into self-annihilation. Released in the post-Margaret Thatcher gloom of 1993, the film stands to this day as one of the greatest character studies ever committed to the screen, examining one of the most profoundly, desperately lonely men ever conceived on the page.
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