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Rio Bravo
Dean Martin as "Dude the Drunk," eh? Why not -- it works in Rio Bravo a favorite among Western enthusiasts that nonetheless is far too long, spending too long setting up the story before...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Learning Curve
I had zero expectations from Learning Curve (tagline: "This Ain't No Breakfast Club"), but about half an hour into the film I found myself enthralled. So follow along.John Davies plays a substitute teacher named Walmsley...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Saving Silverman
Saving Silverman is a film you pray for. With its hilarious trailer, you beg and plead with the Hollywood Gods that, no, all the funny scenes can't be in the previews -- they had...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
The Hustler
I think of it as a Streetcar Named Desire for the con man.The Hustler has always stood out as not just a great movie about the con game, but as a great movie, period....
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
The Replacement Killers
Antoine Fuqua tries to blend Hong Kong action fare with gritty urban sensibilities in The Replacement Killers, to mixed effect. Surprisingly, Mira Sorvino holds her own as an unlikely action star, and the shots...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
A Family Thing
This review is not going to win me many new friends. Already, the gushing praise has begun, and it appears A Family Thing is going to be a regular Critic's Darling. I have...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Uncovered
Once upon a time, Kate Beckinsale used to star in movies that weren't crappy vampire stories.The good news is that in these movies of old, she was often naked.The bad news is that in 1994,...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
The Double-D Avenger
As commentary master Joe Bob Briggs states, "What are we watching? I have no idea!"I'll freely admit I didn't listen to this film. I watched it all, but immediately jumped to Briggs' commentary track, rather...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Searching for Tony Joe
Move over, Blair Witch.Documentary films are often so fraught with stuffy self-importance they forget the first rule of filmmaking: Entertain the audience.Searching for Tony Joe is an unabashed crowd-pleaser because it follows that rule to...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Les Boys
Think of it as Mystery, Quebec. Surprisingly effective French Canadian amateur hockey farce has a ragtag bunch of players facing off against a superior team to win him back the ownership of their coach's...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Fun
I find it amazing that two films about teenage girls slaughtering an older woman would be released within a year of each other. I find it even more amazing that both turned out to...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
My Left Foot
One of cinema's most infamously hoity-toity titles covers one of its most infamously arty topics: An Irish writer/painter with cerebral palsy who can only use his left foot -- and barely, at that. Never mind...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
The Terminal
No modern traveler has more notoriety than Merhan Karimi Nasseri, who has been stranded in Terminal One of Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport since 1988. Nasseri was expelled from Iran in 1977 and spent 10...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
American Splendor
Comic book heroes like Spider-Man and The Hulk get all the press. Hey, what about the little guy?Harvey Pekar is the ultimate little guy -- not just in the comics world, where his American Splendor...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Devil In The Flesh 2
Devil in the Flesh gets the Poison Ivy treatment, with the Rose McGowan guilty pleasure being practically remade as a sequel, with She's All That's Jodi Lyn O'Keefe in the lead. The story follows...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Intervista
It is movies like this that give Fellini -- and foreign films altogether -- a bad name. A compilation of nonsense and leftovers from dozens of years in the moviemaking biz, Intervista is self-described...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Friday the 13th Part 2
Jason, dead? I think not. Here he's on a bloody rampage against a bunch of kids at the camp next door to Crystal Lake, after taking out the redhead that did in his poor old...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Beloved
Long-awaited before its release, most viewers of Beloved have tried to forget the multi-hour ordeal of a train wreck that their beloved Toni Morrison novel became on the big screen. As befits any Oprah...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Animal Farm (1954)
George Orwell's classic fable about repression, revolution, and corruption became a quirky animated mini-classic in 1954, and only recently has the truth about its production become known.Thank Home Vision Entertainment for bringing the movie back...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Year of the Dragon
Once upon a time, Mickey Rourke was a major Hollywood player, and Year of the Dragon finds him in one of his most respectable leading roles, the last film he made before 9 1/2 Weeks...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Trial and Error (1962)
Oddly atypical of Sellers' work, Trial and Error presents Sellers as a hapless attorney assigned to defend Attenborough, who in a fit of rage, has killed his buffoon of a wife. Sounds good so...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Spider-Man
If you aren't already sick to death of unyielding Spider-Man promotions for burgers, cellular phone plans, and the movie itself, you might just find the film a good time. Really good, in fact.After a...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Spirits of the Dead
A rare '60s oddity, Spirits of the Dead takes a weird premise and makes it even weirder. How weird? Try classic Edgar Allen Poe stories given a 1960s spin -- one that lambasts...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood's highly regarded novel came to the screen in 1990 in an uneven yet still gripping production (newly released on DVD). Natasha Richardson makes perhaps the biggest impact in her career as Offred,...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Bedazzled (2000)
There truly is nothing quite like a Brendan Fraser movie, is there? Encino Man, Dudley Do-Right, Mrs. Winterbourne... these are the films that a generation uses to mark the passage of time.It's nigh time...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
The Cranes Are Flying
The cranes are flying all right, right over two lovers in Moscow on the eve of WWII. But the war of course interrupts their idyll, and Boris (Aleksei Batalov) is sent to the front,...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
The Dead Pool
The fifth and last of the Dirty Harry movies, The Dead Pool may not be the best in the series, but it's probably the funniest. Thanks to Evan Kim's reluctant "Chinese-American partner," Patricia Clarkson's...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Delivering Milo
Albert Finney tries to coax an unborn child into popping out of Bridget Fonda. No, he's not a doctor -- he's a spirit sent to convince the little baby to be born! Given...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
South Pacific (2001)
I mean this in the best possible way. Glenn Close has become an extremely handsome gentleman in recent years. That skanky wench from Fatal Attraction is long gone. Today we've got the...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Three Blind Mice
What the title Three Blind Mice has to do with a movie about a serial killer and webcams is beyond me, but I'm not losing any sleep thinking about it. This Edward Furlong vehicle...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
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Leisure Festival - Dreamland in Margate
On the same day that Glastonbury welcomed back Margate's adopted sons, The Libertines, Margate itself put on it's very own Leisure Festival as it...
Pretty Fierce talk to us about collaborating with Doja Cat, emetophobia, arena tours and staying "true to yourself" [EXCLUSIVE]
Sheffield's very own all girl group Pretty Fierce are still on a high after the recent release of their debut single - 'Ready For Me'.
Will Varley & Jack Valero - The Astor Theatre Deal Live Review
Three nights before the end of his current tour Will Varley returned to his home town of Deal to delight a sold out crowd in The Astor Theatre.
WYSE talks to us about her "form of synaesthesia", collaborating with Radiohead's Thom York and the prospect of touring with a band [EXCLUSIVE]
With only a few days to go before Portsmouth based songstress and producer WYSE releases her new single, 'Belladonna', we caught up with her to find...
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Bay Bryan talks to us about being a "wee queer ginger", singing with Laura Marling and being inspired by Matilda [EXCLUSIVE]
Colorado raised, Glasgow educated and Manchester based Bay Bryan is nothing if not a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist performing as both...
Keelan X talks to us about staying true to "your creative vision", collaborating with Giorgio Moroder and being "a yoga nut" [EXCLUSIVE]
Former Marigolds band member Keelan Cunningham has rediscovered his love of music with his new solo project Keelan X.
![Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]](https://images.contactmusic.com/images/home/homepage/luke-de-sciscio-abof-a.jpg "Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]")
Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]
Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...
Annie Elise talks to us about the challenges a female producer has to face and "going through a year of grief and sickness" [EXCLUSIVE]
Electronic music pioneer and producer Annie Elise says that the release of her first EP - 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' feels "both vulnerable and...
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