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The Karl May box set by @Eurekavideo is out now and it looks great! The accompanying booklet contains another article I wrote.

What more can be said about the filmmaker hailed by The Guardian as “one of the cinema's great individualists” and condemned by The Vatican as “the most dangerous director in the world”?

Proof, if needed, that you need to listen to our latest episode on Fantomas

@ConnectionsCult @PatVeil Haha, thanks for the kind words @PatVeil and looking forward to the next one @ConnectionsCult it's been a blast as always. In Spain now and started reading the Mexican Fantômas comics.

@PatVeil @HolgerHaase Thank you Pat, it’s great having Holger on although he doesn’t always believe that

**NEW EPISODE** I’m joined by @HolgerHaase to review the trilogy of 1960s films about the French criminal mastermind Fantomas!

It's sobering to think that for the cost of THE PHANTOM MENACE we could have dozens of STAR CRASHES.

The Fantomas films are often described as France’s answer to James Bond. But is this a valid comparison? Come and join me and @HolgerHaase in our latest episode and find out!

@ConnectionsCult Or that...

@HolgerHaase Or just click here linktr.ee/cultconnections

Super happy to guest on another @ConnectionsCult podcast discussing the 1960s Fantômas trilogy starring Louis de Funès and Jean Marais. (Just search for "Cult Connections" in your podcast provider of choice.)

The clock's ticking for a new podcast episode with moi guesting to come out.

@ConnectionsCult @Eurekavideo Yay!!!! Been wondering when the episode would come out.

It’s nearly Fantomas time! @HolgerHaase @Eurekavideo

Some experimental medium format analog photos from a shoot last year. More on my website. corkglamourphotography.com/2026/05/05/ucc…

May the 4th Be With You!

The 60s now seems like a million years ago, another universe entirely. We really thought we were entering a golden age. It would be an age of freedom, unbridled creativity, choice, exploration and adventure. People would be able to be whatever they wanted to be. The future was limitless. Science and technology would make utopia achievable. London was swinging, Rome was swinging, soon all of Europe and North America would be swinging. Now all those hopes have been dashed and all those dreams have turned to dust. But we can still look back on a Pop treasure trove of delights. Wild imaginative TV series like The Avengers. Movies like The 10th Victim, The Wild Wild Planet and the Bond movies. Photographers like David Bailey and Helmut Newton. Fashion designers like Mary Quant. Filmmakers like Kubrick, comics like Modesty Blaise, Barbarella and Guido Crepax’s Valentina. We can still remind ourselves of the days when the future was going to be an exhilarating sexy adventure.

Let this serve as a reminder that I had long planned to fill the gaps in my Psychotronic collection. That magazine was the best!

“Why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? It won't hurt him.” Nabokov to his New Yorker editor.

@GAltringham This is a fascinating dividing line between generations. Gen X never complained about a sex scene. Ever

That’s probably why a certain Russian website has become indispensable for the majority of millennial and Gen Z classical Hollywood fans.

Say what? Just searched through my old emails and discovered I signed up on.... April 25, 2012! Guess this once in my life I was a trendsetter.

Just learnt today that Isabelle Huppert owns not just one but two cinemas in Paris with four screens that show nothing but classic movies. pariscinemaclub.com

Archivists recently uncovered what may be the first depiction of a robot in cinema. A 127-year-old film reel, found gathering dust in a garage in Grand Rapids, Michigan, turned out to be a long-lost 1897 film by Georges Méliès. This marks the first time the footage has been shown in more than a century.