Author: David Bezanson
Star Trek: Season Three
Everyone knows the sixties were a time of rapid social change, but just how rapid becomes obvious when re-watching the original Star Trek -- daring and original in some ways, retro in others. For better...
Movie Review posted on 7th December 2008
South Pacific (1958)
This is an embarrassing statement for a man to make but I think that South Pacific is one of my favorite old movies. As an art form, the musical is dubious at best....
Movie Review posted on 4th January 2007
Eragon
Christopher Paolini began writing Eragon, a fantasy novel about dragons, elves, and a farmboy who finds out that his destiny is to destroy an evil empire, when he was 15 years old. Those themes may...
Movie Review posted on 17th December 2006
Pride and Prejudice (1995)
Most film adaptations of classic books are inferior to the books they are based on. This is partly because the written word allows more nuance than the camera, but also because great books don't always...
Movie Review posted on 7th December 2006
Idiocracy
Political correctness is an annoying term, and an even more annoying concept. At first it was supposedly bad to be "politically incorrect," then it was supposed to be good, then Bill Maher used it as...
Movie Review posted on 7th September 2006
Intolerance
David Wark Griffith was in many ways the first film director -- a master craftsman who invented modern film editing and camerawork and originated many (most?) of the cinematic devices used today. His silent...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Come Back, Little Sheba
Come Back, Little Sheba is among the best of several booze-obsessed Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s (The Lost Weekend, Days of Wine and Roses, and The Country Girl covered the same territory). Adapted from the...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Imagine: John Lennon
Part rediscovery, part reinvention, Imagine: John Lennon portrays Lennon the icon. There are enough personal glimpses to make it worthwhile, even moving -- but watching Lennon clown around with his mates in A Hard Day's...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Live from Baghdad
Nothing fascinates the media as much as itself. So it should come as no surprise that one of the best films (so far) about the 1990-91 Gulf War is a drama about the reporters...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Charly
This adaptation of Daniel Keyes' sci-fi novel Flowers for Algernon is slow and very dated, but manages to pull itself together for a fairly powerful ending. Keyes's book took a rather silly premise -- a...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
American Graffiti
The Star Wars prequels have tarnished his rep a little, but give him his due --- George Lucas once understood the possibilities and limitations of film like few others. Lucas' second feature film, American Graffiti,...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
The Last Waltz
The Band were one of the best rock groups of the '60s and '70s, creating a unique brand of music that incorporated elements of folk, blues, and soul -- ironically, at the time when those...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Darling
Julie Christie stars in a role written for her: the brazen bird Diana Scott, a swinging Londoner who is discovered by a reporter for a street interview, then rises through the European modeling/acting world by...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
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Sports Team: 'Bus Trip All-Dayer' live at Dreamland in Margate
Live music returned to Dreamland in Margate in spectacular fashion as Sports Team brought their 'Bus Trip All-Dayer' back to the seaside town for the...
Mercury Prize 2021: With a shortlist like this, it’s truly anybody’s game
Wolf Alice are nominated for the third time and Arlo Parks is an unsurprising first-time nominee.
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Album Of The Week: The 19th Anniversary of 'I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love' by My Chemical Romance
Well before they enjoyed meteoric success with 'The Black Parade', My Chemical Romance started their musical journey with another concept album, 'I...
‘Whip My Hair’ Off: How shaving their heads empowered these women in music
Willow Smith and more rocked a buzzcut for so many reasons.
Normani - Wild Side ft. Cardi B Video
Normani and Cardi B dispense with the need to maintain any resemblance of social distancing as they get up-close and personal in the video their...
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Album Of The Week: The 37th Anniversary Of 'Diamond Life' by Sade
'Diamond Life', released on the 16th July 1984, is not only a significant album in it's own right, it's a cultural touchstone and a near perfect...
From Amyl and the Sniffers to The Jacklights: Six upcoming punk albums you must not miss
The resurrection of punk presents an exciting year for music.
