Dave & Tina co-review Heavy Pettin\’ and Rock Goddess. Make sure to listen to our interview with Jody Turner. Heavy Pettin’ The previous time that I saw Heavy Pettin’ was when they supported KISS back in 1983 on the ‘Lick it Up’ tour, and if truth be told, I didn’t like them. Granted I was […]
Memory: The Origins of Alien is the latest documentary written and directed by Alexandre O. Philippe, famous for ‘78/52’ the documentary which fetishistically dissected Hitchcock’s shower scene so eloquently. He now turns his gaze onto Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic, Alien. Beginning with 3 furies (witches with the aliens teeth), he gives us a real sense […]
Blu-ray: Marlene Dietrich & Josef Von Sternberg at Paramount, 1930-1935 Gosh how I love Indicator box sets, they give us beautifully restored films with the most amazing extras. So being able to experience this particular collection featuring the six Hollywood films made between 1930 and 1935 by Josef von Sternberg and starring his ‘creation’ Marlene […]
Blu-ray: In Bruges (2008) Imagine the joy I felt on seeing Colin Farrell as Ray in ‘In Bruges‘, excitedly run over to a film-in-film set with a delighted (Irish accented) cry of ‘Midgets! They’re filming fuckin MIDGETS’! Some films just have it, you know it’s going to be a belter and as the voiceover starts […]
Blu-ray: Being John Malkovich (1999) Now 20 years old (can you believe it?) Being John Malkovich was, and still is, a ‘one off’ kind of film. Very surreal, yet understandable. This was the first script made into a film by Charlie Kaufman, who is now seen as one of THE American writers of modern times. […]
Blu-ray: Sixteen Candles (1984) Samantha Baker (Molly Ringwald) comes downstairs on her 16th birthday and not one of her family has remembered, because her older sister Ginny is getting married the next day. The scowl on Sam’s face remains throughout the entire film. Sam is infatuated with school heart throb Jake Ryan (Michael Schoeffling). Jake opens […]
Blu-ray: Crime and Punishment (1935) Directed by the infamous Josef von Sternberg (The Blue Angel) and adapted by Joseph Anthony and S.K. Lauren from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel of the same title, Crime and Punishment was more or less a vanity project for Peter Lorre who starred in the lead role of Raskolnikov (here named Roderick […]
Blu-ray: Hold Back The Dawn (1941) Back in 1941 when we were balls deep in WW2, America was making romantic dramas like Hold Back the Dawn, to alleviate the…you know…. guilt. Told in flashback to a Hollywood producer (stay with me…), Charles Boyer is Georges Iscovescu, a Romanian gigolo who is trapped in Mexico waiting […]
Blu-ray: FM (1978) Films always reflect the time in which they’re made, and FM has to be top of that list. Q-SKY radio station manager Jeff Dugan (Michael Brandon) employs an eclectic bunch of ‘kooky’ DJ’s. He soon finds that corporate management expects Jeff to use the station’s position at the top of the ratings […]
Cinema: Gwen (2018) Writer/director William McGregor (in his first full length film) gives us an eerie foray into the dark industrial revolutionary Hills of North Wales in Gwen. Set in 1855, Elen (Maxine Peake) and her daughters Gwen (Eleanor Worthington-Cox) and Mari (Jodi Innes) work the small holding up in the Snowdonia Hills while dad […]
