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Desperado
Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez seem to have two things in common: an affection for old surfer-style tunes, and an unconditional love of blood. Both play heavy parts in Rodriguez's eye-popping new flick,...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
The Perfect Nanny
Never mind the knife: The hot number on the cover of The Perfect Nanny DVD is the perfect nanny.Alas, I don't know who that chick is, but it sure ain't Tracy Nelson, who stars as...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Hookers at the Point
The point in question is a place called Hunts Point, a red light district in New York City's Bronx borough.If you're confused about the hookers part of the title, well, we can't help you here.Brent...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Spider
The strangest thing about David Cronenberg's Spider is how out of sync it is with the director's other works. Slow, laconic, and intermittently fascinating, Spider is a movie in which virtually nothing happens. Placed amidst...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Beneath Loch Ness
I guess people never get tired of sea monster movies, so why not demonize the biggest mythical sea creature in the land -- the Loch Ness Monster!? Beneath Loch Ness borrows a page...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
The Kid (1997)
It's Girlfight without the girl. Or it's The Karate Kid without the karate. (In fact, judging from the title, that's precisely what it is!) All of this makes for a movie...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
S.L.C. Punk!
Ah, to be a young anarchist in 1985... in Salt Lake City, Utah.Using the most conservative city in America as a backdrop for the American punk movement proves to be nothing short of brilliance in...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
A Cry In The Dark
The true story of Lindy Chamberlain, a severe and embittered woman who was found innocent, then guilty, then innocent of murdering her child in the Australian outback in 1980. Her excuse: "The dingo took...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Amandla! A Revolution In Four-Part Harmony
I'm used to being branded a cynic, heathen, asshole, or what have you, but once again I have to admit I found myself toiling to get through a documentary about an obscure subject matter... only...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
White Man's Burden
What would happen if race roles in America were reversed? What if blacks had all the power, and whites had to fight prejudice and racism at every turn? Such is the setting of...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Visitor Q
Takashi Miike's never made a straightforward film in his life, so it should come as no surprise that Visitor Q is a baffling and muddled mess intended solely to shock. Oddly, Visitor Q was made...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Siddhartha
Siddhartha goes down as easy as malt liquor. Too bad it's twice as gaseous.Based on Herman Hesse's novel of the same name, the 1972 film follows the titular Siddhartha (Shashi Kapoor) on his quest...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Volcano
Oh, there's nothing like a natural disaster to bring people together! That's the poorly masked theme ("They all look the same!") behind Volcano, the first really big disaster movie we've seen since, gosh, mid-February....
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Lost & Found
At last the public's thirst for a David Spade-Sophie Marceau comedy is quenched with this story of a hapless restaurant owner who kidnaps his neighbor's dog in order to get cozy with her. Harmless,...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Homegrown
Movies about marijuana are historically slapsticky, funny romps (see the Cheech and Chong oeuvre). Homegrown probably started out that way, then turned into a typical drug thriller, only set in the northern California hippie...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
The Shape of Things
Neil LaBute, you're a cruel, cruel man.After the somewhat senseless Your Friends and Neighbors and the bafflingly bad period piece Possession, LaBute has at last returned to his roots with the kind of story that...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper and Michael Mann together? The Last of the Mohicans represents an unlikely collaboration that didn't seem all that great to me back in 1992, and now, in it's release as a...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Starfire Mutiny
Per the Starfire Mutiny - Advertising Materials for Newspaper Reproduction flyer I was sent, this is the story of the film:Deep space.An escaped convict, General Swann, and his band of mercenaries have seized control of...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
End Of Days
Here it is, November of 1999, and I thought we weren't going to get a good end-of-the-world, Satan-conquers-all apocalypse movie (Dogma doesn't count). Whew! End of Days arrives just in time (no pun...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Death And The Compass
The director of Repo Man takes an Argentinian short story by Jorge Luis Borges and brings it to the screen with his curious style. Surrealistic and considerably detailed considering its low budget, the cryptic...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Bravo Two Zero
They were an elite unit of the SAS, eight Brits sent behind enemy lines in Iraq to knock out Saddam Hussein's Scud missiles -- facing incredible odds, wearing 210-pound packs, out of touch with HQ,...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Malibu Spring Break
It's barely a movie, but thank God Malibu Spring Break is aware of that fact and makes little pretense of being much more.Never mind the story (it's spring break, co-eds descend on an uncle's house,...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Cosi
Cute but predictable, Cosi revolves around the cute-but-predictable premise of a group of insane asylum inmates who put on a rendition of the opera Cosi fan Tutte despite having no acting or singing ability whatsoever...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Restoration
Robert Downey's schizophrenic personality has finally found a home in Restoration. This sweeping film, set in 1660 England during the reign of the flamboyant Charles II (Sam Neill), tells the story of Merivel (Downey),...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Taliesin Jones
Not quite a religious film, not quite a coming-of-age story, not quite a kiddie flick, and not quite a supernatural horror movie, Taliesin Jones's identity crisis nonetheless reveals a sweet examination of one child and...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
While "magic" may be a little strong, The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing is a surprisingly interesting film. If you're a filmmaker or an aspiring critic, it may well be essential viewing.This documentary...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Tart
Misleading title alert!Not only does the provocative title of Tart mislead us, but the packaging features a lithe Dominique Swain on its covers, her schoolgirl skirt blowing up to expose her panties. The tagline:...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Coneheads
It sounds weird to say it, but Coneheads the movie is underrated. How come it's better than your typical SNL adaptation? A new spin on the original skit with some fresh stars like...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Allegro Non Troppo
The "Italian Fantasia" is every bit is weird, experimental, and vaguely inappropriate as you would expect.Allegro non troppo is an unabashed reimagination (somewhere between a parody and a remake) of Fantasia, with a decidedly grown-up...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Ballad Of A Soldier
Alyosha has it rough, being a Russian teenager on the front lines of World War II. But when he singlehandedly takes out two German tanks, he earns a day pass to go home and...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Suggested
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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