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Film Review – The Velvet Underground (2021)
When it comes to seminal bands in music, The Velvet Underground will be right up at the top. The legendary avant-garde rockers are the subject of Todd Haynes (Velvet Goldmine, Carol ) debut documentary feature. Which has been streaming on Apple TV+, now on The Criterion Collection. For a band back in it’s hey day…
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Film Review: The Sparks Brothers (2021)
I’m sure many of us or the opposite even know who Sparks are. Last year Edgar Wright (Last Night In Soho, Shaun Of The Dead) released Documentary which premiered at 2021 Sundance Film Festival. How can one rock band be successful, underrated, hugely influential, and criminally overlooked all at the same time? Brothers Ron and…
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Film Review -American Hardcore (2006)
Growing up in a house were rock music was the main genre it was only the matter of time I would discover hardcore punk. I was in my teens when I took my first steps into hardcore when someone gave me a vinyl copy of Gorilla Biscuits self titled debut. It changed my musical tastes…
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Film Review – Crumb (1995)
Recently I asked a friend who considers himself an “comic book fanatic”, who claims to know everything about comics, does he know who Robert Crumb is? His reply was “never heard of them“, a reply I could understand from a young comic book collector who only reads Marvel or DC Comics. My friend is 59…
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Netflix Review – Shirkers (2018)
In 1992, a 17 year old me was considering what options to take in my work life. Like many of us, we all had dreams and aspirations which flew out the window when reality sinks in. The other side of the world in the small country of Singapore, a young Sandi Tan had a dream…
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Film Review – Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story (2019)
Originality is hard to come by these days, many would never think it could come from a man who wore a Papier Mâché head.Being Frank Frank: The Sievey Story is the story of that man Chris Sievey and his Papier Mâché alter ego Frank Sidebottom. Even nine years after his death Frank Sidebottom and Chris…
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Blu-Ray Review – F For Fake (1974, Criterion Collection)
No one likes to be duped whatever the situation. When the hypnotic gaze on the camera is from none other than the ‘charlatan’ himself Orson Welles, you can’t help giving yourself up to him. The Criterion Collection continues its expansion into the UK market with F For Fake (1974), a lesson in trickery, deceit, and…
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Blu-Ray Review – Future Shock! The Story of 2000 AD
When we pass a certain landmark birthday, the realisation you’re getting older time is flying by you. Been in my 40’s does have its advantages, born in 1970’s, a kid in the 1980’s. An era when of some of the greatest ever comics were born, like 2000AD. 1977 may have been ‘anarchy in the UK’…
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Film Review – A United Kingdom (2017)
The power of love does wonders for many people even if that love is regarded by some as ‘Forbidden Love’. In Amma Asante‘s A United Kingdom, it’s a love that caused a rift between two nations, as a man’s right to lead his nation. On paper, this sounds astonishing and it’s story that had to…
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Film Review – I’m Not Your Negro (2017)
Powerful words deserve a powerful platform and Raoul Peck’s I’m Not Your Negro gets that platform, bringing James Baldwin’s voice to the big screen. Unless you know the ins and outs of the history of the American Civil Rights movement the poet-novelist Baldwin will be virtually unknown. But take into the fold his friends network…
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