Aled Owen is a writer and filmmaker born in Carmarthen, Wales. He acted onstage from a young age and even won third place in 2012's Britain's Got Talent as part of Only Boys Aloud, a traditional Welsh ...

Many have never heard of filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky. Others know only selected works—the ’80s effort Santa Sangre, the consistently mentioned “midnight movie” El Topo—but even for those who claim ...

In my never-ending quest for something—anything—to do in suburban El Dorado Hills, I recently decided to revisit Alejandro Jodorowsky’s early film El Topo. When I first watched it many years ago, it ...

The Western died in the 1970s, but according to Roger Ebert, that had absolutely nothing to do with "El Topo." The 1970 surrealist Western was one of a handful of films to receive a perfect score from ...

Whether you like his films or not, Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky is largely responsible for the modern concept of the midnight movie. In the early '70s, his films El Topo and The Holy Mountain ...