In Charing Cross one day, Nick Faber came across busker Rufus Stone, and on hearing his ‘wailing harmonica’ he invited him into the studio to collaborate on The Lost Highway Tapes.Faber recounts: “On ‘Sensational’ the guitar is me and the blues harp is Rufus”.This is one of those instantly likeable songs, with a groovy beat […]
Blu-ray: The Game (1997)Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) is a wealthy investment banker, he is somewhat scrooge-like, lives alone in a huge mansion, is divorced and hasn’t seen his ne’er do well brother Conrad (Sean Penn) for years.Nicolas is haunted from having seen his father commit suicide on his 48th birthday, now for his own 48th […]
Blu-ray: The New Kids (1985)Directed by Wes Craven’s mate and horror producer/director/writer Sean S. Cunningham, The New Kids is a quintessentially 80’s film. When Abby (Lori Loughlin) and Loren McWilliams (Shannon Presby) parents (a very brief appearance fromTom Atkins) are killed in an accident, they are forced to move in with their uncle who runs a petrol […]
Blu-ray: Force 10 From Navarone (1978)After a gap of 17 years Force 10 from Navarone is the sequel to The Guns of Navarone, both based on a fictional Greek island in Alistair MacLean novels. The original stars of Mallory (Gregory Peck) and Miller (David Niven) are now played by (Mallory) Robert Shaw, who died before the […]
Blu-ray: Britannia Hospital (1982)Britannia Hospital is the final part of Lindsay Andersons’ trilogy about how weird and shit Britain was/is. It features Anderson’s ‘everyman’ character Mick Travis, and to really get a grip on Britannia Hospital it helps to know about Mick and the films that came before.Mick is played by Malcolm McDowell and features in […]
Blu-ray: Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is based on Laurens van der Post’s trilogy of books that detail his experiences as a Japanese prisoner war in World War II and was the first English language film by Japanese Auteur Nagisa Oshima. Based in a Japanese P.O.W. camp in 1942, it tells the […]
Thankfully I finally took notice of my “Themed Tunes” co-host Steve constantly going on about how wonderful The Teskey Brothers are. After recording a show a few weeks back I went on YouTube and watched them play the song “Hold Me” (see below) from the ‘Live at the Forum’ album. Now those of you who […]
Blu-ray: Watermelon Man (1970) Good lord where do I start with this film? HOW do you review a film about a black man ‘whiteing up’ to rub it off and be a black man? Watermelon Man, directed by Melvin Van Peebles, stars Godfrey Cambridge (who in 1965 was described by Time magazine as “one of […]
Blu-ray: Cisco Pike (1971) Cisco Pike is a 1971 drama film that was written and directed by Bill L. Norton, and released by Columbia Pictures. The film stars Kris Kristofferson as a musician who, having fallen on hard times, turns to the selling of marijuana and is blackmailed by a police officer (Gene Hackman). It’s […]
Blu-ray: The Woman/Offspring (2011/2009) This double release from Arrow features two films both centred on Pollyanna McIntosh as ‘The Woman’. When a young girl’s mutilated body is discovered in the town of Dead River, the local police immediately suspect a nomadic family of cannibals, which in itself is surprising. The cops KNOW about a family […]
