A new documentary makes a valiant but ultimately futile attempt to posit Talk Talk as music’s lost artistic geniuses – without any help from the band.
Category: Review
Birds, Orphans And Fools – Czechoslovakian Cinematic Liberation And Repression
The dying days of cultural freedom and the dark side of the hippy dream explored in Juraj Jakubisko’s defiantly anarchic film.
Persian Black Metal: A Somewhat Incomplete Story
This documentary about Iranian black metal musician Faustoos Crowley rather glosses over the more controversial and questionable aspects of his work.
It’s Hip to be Square-ish. The Residents Set Fire to Popular Music Over Seven Discs
Probing the wonders and frustrations of The Residents’ Cube-E Box extravaganza.
Splendid Isolation – The Ghosts And Mysteries Of A Reckoning
The great lost film of modern British cinema emerges into the light.
Woman On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown – John Cassavetes’ Opening Night
John Cassavetes and Gena Rowland create a study of fear, guilt and personal horror.
Undressing Emmanuelle – The Confessions Of Sylvia Kristel
The autobiography of the scandalous Emmanuelle star examined.
The Becket List: Middle-Class Complaints About First World Problems
A new book taking swipes at daily irritants that whines when it needs to roar.
Love Is Strange – The Bleak, Fractured World Of Possession
Possession – Andrzej Zuwalski’s hysterical, intense and utterly bleak story of a love triangle unlike any other.
Even Dying Is An Act Of Eroticism: David Cronenberg’s Shivers
David Cronenberg’s Shivers is one of the most revolutionary, unsettling and provocative movies from the Golden Age of horror cinema.