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Under the Roofs of Paris
Classic French auteur René Clair, who recently resurfaced on DVD with his film À Nous la Liberté returns to Criterion's DVD lineup with Under the Roofs of Paris, his first feature talkie, released in 1930.Under...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Once Upon a Time in the West
Long on looks and short on sense, Sergio Leone's celebrated spaghetti western Once Upon a Time in the West is a remarkable achievement of cinematography but comes across today as a more muddled story than...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Bachelor Party
Tom Hanks' greatest role ever? It could just be Bachelor Party, which dared to introduce the thought of mule love in 1984. It's been said before by others -- but every time I...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Love in Thoughts
I wasn't expecting much from this movie. It's called -- appallingly -- Love in Thoughts (or at least that's how it's loosely translated from German), and the cover shows two young men with their shirts...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Comic Book: The Movie
27 years after his appearance in Star Wars, Mark Hamill makes his directorial debut in a movie about... comic books? In this mockumentary, Hamill is just about the only actor who isn't playing himself....
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Sling Blade
Unlike most critics, I've been largely unimpressed with Billy Bob Thornton's work in the past. From One False Move to A Family Thing, I've always found his writing to lack depth and miss a...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
The Americanization of Emily
Arthur HIller directed this oddball black comedy (script courtesy of the masterful Paddy Chayefsky), which turns out to have little to do with Emily (Julie Andrews) at all. Rather, the film captures a quirky navy...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Pierrot le fou
Perhaps the greatest entry into the theater of the absurd, Godard's Pierrot le fou starts out as ridiculous and gets progressively sillier. Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as a family man named Ferdinand, who up and...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Vertigo
Awesome and brilliant, Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo was recently restored, and its power is immense. Jimmy Stewart never did finer work, and Hitchcock's masterpiece, though its meaning may be lost on many, reveals a man...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
The only Nightmare on Elm Street movie to begin with a Friedrich Nietzsche quote and give us Freddy riding a broomstick, aping The Wizard of Oz -- all in the first 10 minutes -- not...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
The Portrait of a Lady
Jesus, I didn't realize when I went to the movies this morning I was going to have to think!But seriously, that's what you're going to be doing if you see The Portrait of a Lady...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Chutney Popcorn
Just the other day I was remarking, "Why aren't there more Indian lesbian surrogate mother comedies!?" Thank God, my prayers are answered with Chutney Popcorn, a curious picture that defies categorization... er, except I...
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4 For Texas
One horrible idea from start to finish -- perhaps the Ishtar of its era. In fact, 4 for Texas has a lot in common with that film -- big stars (Frank and Dino), a...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
3000 Miles To Graceland
Those of you hoping to hear about a clever casino heist picture in the style of Ocean's Eleven are in for a sore disappointment. From this movie's opening frames, featuring dueling CGI-animated scorpions, it's...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
29 Palms (2002)
You're a filmmaker with a quirky cast but no money to actually shoot your movie. What do you do?Well, you borrow the oldest trick in the book by putting your characters in the desert,...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
George Washington
What astonishes is not that George Washington is a good film, it's that the movie can tell such a powerful and complicated story in just 89 minutes. Its length is a telling reminder that...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Fingers
Rarely has a crime/gangster movie been produced with such a sense of calmness. Fingers, a cult classic, is a real showpiece for Harvey Keitel, who plays the title of Jimmy Fingers, a low-level gangster...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
How to Draw a Bunny
Ray Johnson, a member of Andy Warhol's gang, early pop artist, and enigmatic New York scion, has never been a tip-of-the-tongue celebrity. Though he worked for some 50 years, no single image has become synonymous...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
The Mists of Avalon
The story of King Arthur as you've never heard it before -- long, boring, and from a woman's point of view. The Mists of Avalon, a TNT miniseries come to home video and DVD,...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Chinese Roulette
Whoops. When you show up at the country chateau with your lover, make sure your wife hasn't booked it for the same weekend with her beau!Such is the basic premise of Chinese Roulette, which one-ups...
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Revolution OS
This unique "talking geek" movie outlines the free software and open source movements (and the difference between the two), tracing the rise of GNU, Linux, Netscape, and other groundbreaking computer projects by interviews with their...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Kurt & Courtney
A can't-lose premise about the "conspiracy to kill Kurt Cobain" gets mangled in esteemed documentarian Broomfield's treatment of the famed grunge hero. There's no resolution at all except for the not-so-stunning revelation that Courtney...
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Perfectly Legal
This Playboy production may have plenty of lame, wholly-expected soft-core sex scenes, but it certainly doesn't approach anything close to being perfectly legal.Everything in the movie is just plain bad, from a shot of a...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
The Mangler 2
Having not seen The Mangler 1, I worry that I don't have the sociological background to appropriately critique The Mangler 2. However, I have read the original Stephen King short story "The Mangler," and...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Kiss the Bride
Industry-wise, egomania is probably at its worst in Hollywood, where seemingly anyone with a connection can grab a camera and a few hundred thousand bucks, dust off a crappy screenplay they've written, and make an...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Evolution
Here's my candidate for most creative casting of 2001....In Evolution, you get David Duchovny, (former) star of TV's The X-Files who has failed miserably to cross over to any kind of success in film....
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Highlander II: The Quickening
I make no secret of the fact that I think The Highlander is the greatest action film ever made. Awesome swordfights might awesome score (by Queen, people!), and a time-bending plotline that only a philistine...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Wounded
Why do you make a movie and cut Mädchen Amick's gorgeous hair? Asinine story about a renegade bear poacher (?!) and the girl who hunts him down. Uh huh.
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Red Letters
Painfully awful mystery flick has Hawthorne-expert Coyote falling for a prison inmate (Kinski) via postal mail. About as slow as a fourth-class parcel, Red Letters is so convoluted and just plain stupid you'll stop wondering...
Movie Review posted on 1st November 2005
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
Meet Robert Hanssen, a walking contradiction.He's deeply religious (Catholic, four kids) but trades nudie pics of his wife with his friend.He's patriotic enough to work for the FBI, but his need for money drives him...
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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