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Midnight Video

An archive of two chaps, a laptop and a mic attempting to unearth the lost, forgotten and overlooked in cinema.

“Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.” - Pauline Kael

Midnight Video Doomsday Clock: Strange Days

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Before he became obsessed with a bespectacled child with a scar on his head, Rafe, sorry, Ralph Fiennes starred in a Kathryn Bigelow (with a little help from her now ex, James Cameron) film, which was a dystopian vision influenced by the 'then-times' riots and Rodney King killing in LA.  So, as the clock ticks ever onwards to Doomsday, so do we witness the countdown to a new year to remember in Strange Days.  

Phurious Phil