The self-importance – and actual importance – of the rock critic, and why collections of old rock star interviews still have value.
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Pirates Of San Fernando Valley
These swash-buckling epics represent the last gasp of ambitious adult cinema.
Danger! Low Voltage – Electric Six’s Album Of Lacklustre Cover Versions
The disco-rock miscreants return with an album of other people’s songs that offers nothing new to the original versions.
The Other Justine – A High Camp Cinematic Car Crash
The George Cukor and Joseph Strick directed all-star melodrama is a kitsch disaster that fans of the accidentally ludicrous may find very much to their taste.
Delia Derbyshire And Anthony Newley Get The Moogies Bloogies
An eccentric and ahead-of-its-time recording by two of the more interesting creative minds of the 1960s.
Man Vs Machine: The Relentless Intensity Of Duel
Steven Spielberg’s debut feature, and the Richard Matheson short story that it is based on, remain masterclasses in paranoid terror.
The Precision Video Catalogue Of 1981
A collection of ITC movies, classic TV and oddball instructional films that were on offer in the early days of home video.
Starblazer – The Lost World Of Comic Book Science Fiction
The oddly old-fashioned and pulpy science fiction comic book series from the people who brought you Commando.
Kate Bush And The Haunted Castle
A 1978 promotional TV special for an amusement park starring the young singer is an unexpectedly haunting and weird production.
Lydia Lunch Is For Sale
The most important figure in the transgressive underground is selling the rights to everything that she has ever done.
Nixon Now More Than Ever – Mike Curb’s Political Rallying Song
The campaign song for a disgraced President, performed by the man who scored The Wild Angels.
Western Civilisation’s Highest Point? Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na, Na Na Na Na
Why one day in 1968 with The Beatles was the pinnacle of everything good.