Tagged Music

In 2008, after working in the shark-infested British music scene, John Niven penned the seminal Kill Your Friends, with a lead character equal parts Bateman and Belfort and here brought to life by that...

"Cambodia is deeply routed in music", proudly states one interviewee; and it shows true as locals in the streets dance freely, expressing their love for music. This glimpse into the forgotten past of...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAsiyqgehL8 Mondays, right? Garfield knows what I’m talking about. A timid fella takes transport, bustled along in the crowds he seeks to avoid. Unable to escape, he...

Over 21 years and 15 feature films, Pixar have taken us from small bedrooms to big cities, from Toy Barns to the depths of the ocean, deepest forests to outer space - and now, fantastically, inside the mind of...

Doc/Fest was made for films like Orion: The Man who would be King – stories so ridiculous and unbelievable that they must be true. The archival footage of singer and Elvis sound-alike Jimmy Ellis gyrating...

There are plenty of classic films about dancing, from The Red Shoes to Black Swan, but there are also plenty more where the characters slip in a two-step or a spot of dirty dancing out of the blue. Man Up is...

​It’s been nearly ten years since the eclectic band of music store employees saved their beloved record shop from being taken over by the Music Town franchise in ‘90s cult classic, Empire Records. Sadly,...

At the heart of Whiplash lies an uncomfortable truth, relentlessly hammered home with the force of a thousand drumbeats. To be truly great at anything you need to work till you bleed, work until you hate...

This sensory and disorientating documentary is extremely poignant, an effect heightened by footage accentuating Collins’ former dynamism as well as incremental tonal shifts paralleling the ascendance of...

Tim Burton’s stylistic and directorial hallmarks can be seen throughout his three-decade spanning film career. His films have achieved both box office success, cult following status and critical acclaim; a...

A time of big hair, shoulder pads and synthesizer-doused elevator music, the 1980s is a relic of a decade in which so much happened in the worlds of fashion, film and music. Legendary filmmaker John Hughes,...

Under the Electric Sky is a ridiculous film which exhibits ridiculous people. Shot during 2013’s Electric Daisy Carnival it offers zero accessibility and little of interest to anyone not already associated...

“What goes on inside that head?” Michael Fassbender goes one better than Karl Urban’s Judge Dredd in the bizarrely sublime (or is that sublimely bizarre?) Frank. This is a film which, given a chance...

Though its accessibility has drawn scorn from fans of "serious" documentary-making, this VH1-vibed account of sadly-overlooked backing singers should win anyone over. It's the magnetic personalities as much...

When it comes to making movies, there are few who can match the careers of writer-director duo Joel and Ethan Coen. Their ability to create new, exciting and enchanting films from across the spectrum of genre...