This very personal look into the Stones on tour in Ireland may say a great deal more than certain other documentaries spanning across entire careers. Charlie is my Darling is an intimate peek into two days of performing in small venues to modest, riotous crowds, composing an early, sketchy “Sitting Read More
Strange, awkward, abnormal and still extremely banal. Awful storyline, very odd execution of a pointless script and disturbing real-bird-life documentation. At the same time, perhaps the most mind-blowing photography and cinematography to come from the Seventies, and an astonishing soundtrack by Neil Diamond. Richard D. Bach’s beautiful novel should have Read More
Crazy Heart is great. And it’s great for two reasons — Bad Blake and his music. Otherwise known as Jeff Bridges and Bingham and Burnett’s soundtrack, both of which won an Academy Award for their merit. The actor, as well as the once successful country singer that he portrays, has Read More
Tommy… The story of that deaf, dumb and blind kid who sure plays a mean pinball. That’s right, this is not a musical directly inspired by the real world. Writer/composer Pete Townsend and writer/director Ken Russell take an already bizarre premise and push and pull it towards and from every Read More
Lighter than Tommy but darker than Fantasia, Yellow Submarine is rock surrealism, psychedelic animation, a childish plot with deep and dark undertones and sequences of dream-like dimensions and progressions. Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band is filling up Pepperland with love, they get the flowers blooming and the people singing, Read More
Jesus Christ Superstar is brilliant whichever way you look at it. As far as mainstream musicals go, the use of rock music has always been a rarity. A Rock/Jesus hybrid has never been seen elsewhere. Rock associated with rebellion and anti-conformism is pretty standard, so it’s refreshing to experience this Read More
Oliver Stone’s The Doors paints a strange and awful portrait, leaving a load of questions begging to be asked about The Doors and their frontman, Jim Morrison. Questions like “did Jim really throw his girlfriend, Pam Courson into a wardrobe and set the house alight”? The historical accuracy of the Read More
Based on The Who’s most mature album, Quadrophenia was released in 1979 as an adaptation of the rock opera for the big screen. The title of the album and the adapted British film is a variation of the term “schizophrenia” combined with the word “quadraphonic”, at that time a recent Read More
To me, there’s nothing better than a film where a favourite song is suddenly heard on screen, when you least expect it. If the song is used appropriately, it can manage to give you chills for years to come. This is a list of songs that have made the scenes Read More
’Here comes johnny yen again, with the liquor and drugs’. When Iggy Pop’s emphatic ‘Lust for Life’ is heard thumping behind the screen and a mid-nineties Edinburgh city centre is seen flashing past us while a young, half-starved Ewan McGregor runs from the cops with a crazed madness in his eyes, you Read More
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