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Jon Towlson is a film critic and the author of Candyman (Auteur, 2018), The Turn to Gruesomeness in American Horror Films, 1931-1936 (McFarland, 2016), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Auteur, 2016) and Subversive Horror Cinema: Countercultural Messages of Films from Frankenstein to the Present (McFarland, 2014).
Articles by Jon Towlson
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Two fistfuls of the finest Italian westerns, from Django to the Dollars trilogy and beyond.
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
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50 years of Planet of the Apes: why the original series still holds a warning for us all
Beginning in 1968, an unusually bleak sci-fi franchise sounded a warning about the way our species was going. Fifty years later, can we be sure that Planet of the Apes was just monkey business?
Thursday, February 8, 2018
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Is Close Encounters of the Third Kind Spielberg’s most optimistic film?
Forty years later, Steven Spielberg’s utopian vision of first contact remains a beacon of light in an increasingly dark body of work.
Friday, May 20, 2016
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Reviews, interviews and features from the international film magazine.
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