CALVAIRE (aka The Ordeal) **** Belgium / France / Luxembourg 2004 Dir: Fabrice Du Welz. 88 mins After being menaced by a horny, elderly fan in his dressing room, handsome young singer Marc Stevens (Laurent Lucas), heading off to a Christmas gala, breaks down in the middle of nowhere. He…
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THE DEVILS (Devil’s Advocates) by Darren Arnold Opening with engaging personal flashbacks of author Darren Arnold’s mission to seek out Ken Russell’s hugely contentious THE DEVILS (1971) within censorial 1980s Britain, this analysis of one of the most notorious major studio films of all time covers a lot of territory…