England Is Mine – Review Louise Burrell August 5, 2017 Reviews An unauthorised yet very affectionate biopic, England is Mine offers a glimpse into Morrissey’s pre-Smiths years in 1970s Manchester. Surrounded by arguing parents, uninteresting people and dead-end jobs,...
Whitney: Can I Be Me – Review Calum Baker June 16, 2017 Reviews Whitney: Can I Be Me sees Nick Broomfield take on the iconic spectre of Asif Kapadia's Amy, and largely fail. His brief, of course, is to take on the iconic spectre of Whitney Houston, but again, we've seen...
It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! – Review Louise Burrell June 5, 2017 Reviews This month marks fifty years since the release of one of the most iconic albums of all time, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, changing the face of modern day music forever. The album marked a pivotal...
Kill Your Friends – Review Thom Denson November 9, 2015 Reviews 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...
Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll – Review Andrew Daley November 2, 2015 Reviews "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...
Short of the Week – Agoraphobic Stephen O'Nion September 21, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 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...
Music of the Movies: Pixar Calum Baker July 28, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies 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...
Orion: The Man Who Would Be King – Doc/Fest 2015 Review Phil W. Bayles June 10, 2015 Reviews 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...
Top 10 Unexpected Dance Scenes in Film Tom Bond May 28, 2015 Analysis, Features, Top 10 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...
Where Are They Now?: Empire Records Olivia Luder December 2, 2014 Features, Nostalgia, Where Are They Now? 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,...
Whiplash – LFF Review Tom Bond October 17, 2014 Reviews 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...
The Possibilities Are Endless – LFF Review Danielle Davenport October 13, 2014 Reviews 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...
Music of the Movies: Tim Burton Andy J Smith August 2, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies 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...
Music of the Movies: John Hughes Andy J Smith May 14, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies 4 Comments 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 – Sundance London Review Christopher Preston April 25, 2014 Reviews 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...