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Hard Ticket to Hawaii
As the movie's über-cheesy theme song tells us, "It's a hard ticket to Hawaii / It's not paradise all the time."In Andy Sidaris's ridiculous 1987 cheesefest, a soap star (Ronn Moss) and a bevy of...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Change Of Habit
I'm hard-pressed to remember a film worse than Change of Habit, a movie which features the following:- Elvis Presley (in his final movie role) as a singing doctor in a free urban clinic- Mary Tyler...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Advise And Consent
Everybody loves Henry Fonda -- but what if he was a freakin' commie!?Otto Preminger turned his eyes from the legal system (Anatomy of a Murder) to American politics in the underseen and tragically underappreciated Advise...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Just Looking (1995)
Odd melodrama about a marriage that's hitting some stumbling blocks, with both members of the couple worried that the other is cheating on him/her. He (LeGros) even resorts to becoming a peeping tom, staring...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Death And The Maiden
Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley are together in Roman Polanski's new film, Death and the Maiden, a haunting and powerful work of genius. Based on the acclaimed stage play, the story goes that Weaver...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Hanover Street
An obscure Harrison Ford starrer, Hanover Street is a capable rendition of love and war a la The English Patient, but also recalling Catch-22 and the Indiana Jones films.Directed by Peter Hyams, who hasn't done...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Spanking the Monkey
Probably the best mother-son incest movie ever made, and I mean that from the heart. Incidentally, this is David O. Russell's first film, launching his career as a purveyor of the truly bizarre.
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Darkman
One of the lamer superheroes in comic book and movie history, Darkman is formed from massive burns over 40 percent of his body, his home-made synthetic skin which degrades after exposure to light, and an...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
All The King's Men
Broderick Crawford is no Orson Welles, but this meditation on the underbelly of American politics is at least in the same league as Citizen Kane. Also a Best Picture winner, the film traces the rise...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Spellbound (1945)
Spellbound lands as one of Hitchcock's classics but it's far from his best work.The entire plot is one of Hitch's more absurd (adapted from the novel The House of Dr. Edwardes). Back in 1945, the...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
The Lion King
One of Disney's greatest achievements, this is to my knowledge the only animated film to be turned into a Broadway musical. (Beauty and the Beast doesn't count, since that film had prior life outside the...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Hard Cash
Yes, it's a direct-to-video movie called Hard Cash, and yes it's a black comedy/heist that you've never heard of. And yes, it's got Val Kilmer and Christian Slater in it. What's the story?Well,...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
A Very Brady Sequel
There are enough laughs to be had in this sequel to The Brady Bunch Movie, but it's hardly a riot. It's hardly an episode of Friends, really. Hustled out only one year after the...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Trainspotting
It's the most heavily-hyped and anticipated indie film I have ever seen.It's a foul and grotesque exercise in nausea, yet completely engrossing from the start.It's the most experimental film to gain a large release in...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
The original 1925 version of The Phantom of the Opera gets a touch-up with a modern Goth-inspired soundtrack from the band Switchblade Symphony.The film remains the same: Lon Chaney stars as the hideously disfigured title...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Blues Brothers 2000
Belushi is rolling in his grave, can't you feel it?Unreedemable schlock, Blues Brothers 2000 is a blatant ripoff of the original. The script is virtually stolen verbatim, only perverted and twisted to seem different,...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Breakfast With Hunter
"Breakfast" for Hunter S. Thompson means a tray full of uneaten food and a large glass of ice filled with Chivas Regal.With the meal out of the way, we can sit down to the rest...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
The Last Outlaw
Whoa, Steve Buscemi in a western? With Mickey Rourke, too!? Sadly, crazy casting is just about the only thing of note in The Last Outlaw, a sad, sad excuse for a western....
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
This Property Is Condemned
Let's get beyond the awful title. (It's based on an obscure Tennessee Williams play... but why didn't they change the name!?)Let's look at the crew -- a script co-written by Francis Ford Coppola and John...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Good Will Hunting
Hype? Sheesh, like no other. This side of Titanic, Good Will Hunting has enjoyed some of the most baffling, gushing praise of the year. Does either film deserve it? Not really.Let's...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
No Such Thing
I bet there's a really cool backstory behind No Such Thing. Its premise is so bizarre (but what Hal Hartley film isn't?) that it's either the work of a genius or a madman....
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
James Bond is back - NOT! - as one vaguely remembered star of stage and screen might have said.Instead of Bond, it's super-groovy spy Austin Powers (Myers) making his triumphant return to the silver screen,...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
All Things Fair
Every teenage boy's fantasy comes true in the Swedish film All Things Fair, when schoolboy Stig (Johan Widerberg) becomes smitten with his teacher, Viola (Charlotte Rampling lookalike Marike Lagercrantz). After some embarassing prodding into...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Luckytown
Kirsten, hello? I understand you thought you were getting into a big production with James Caan, but this is ridiculous.Normally, a movie that takes place largely in a Vegas strip joint would a shoo-in...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Back To The Secret Garden
Moviegoers who fondly remember Agnieszka Holland's lovingly crafted 1993 version of the classic children's story The Secret Garden will be disappointed to learn that Back to the Secret Garden is not the sequel. Rather,...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Loco Love
Comparisons will be drawn to My Big Fat Greek Wedding, but nothing could be further from the truth.Laura Harring (Mulholland Drive) is about the only thing memorable about this ethnicified update of The Taming of...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Mortal Kombat
This one's a howler that's so bad it's almost good -- almost. In this infamous adaptation of the popular arcade game series, weird otherworldly semi-immortals bring in three humans by boat to a sort of...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Evita
Now I understand why Argentineans wanted Madonna to go home during the filming of Evita!What the fuss is all about, I have no idea, because Evita is just another bad movie starring one of our...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Giant
A more apt title you won't find for a movie, as Giant's sprawling epic covers some 30 years in the life of a Texas cattle baron (Hudson), his wife (Taylor), and the upstart kid who...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Central Station
Heralded by critics and film fans -- and rightly so -- Central Station is the story of an unlikely friendship between the 67-year-old Dora (Fernanda Montenegro) and a 10-year-old boy Josué (Vinicius de Oliviera)....
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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