Amphetamine Reptile records was a record label that specialised in Noise Rock which came out of the wake of the end of Hardcore Punk and went somewhat parallel with the birth of Grunge in the late ’80s/Early ’90s. Mudhoney who are often considered by many to be the band they invented the Seattle sound that … Continue reading Blu-Ray Review – Color of Noise
Todd Haynes is the only director to really survive the “New Queer Cinema” boom of the ’90s but by his 2nd feature Safe his Queerness was brought into question. The film on the surface level was about a straight woman with multiple chemical sensitivity despite being an obvious statement on the Aids crisis. Gay critics didn’t understand the … Continue reading London Film Festival Review – Carol
J.G. Ballard was the greatest post-war author Britain has ever known and his relationship to cinema is a curious one. The first cinematic adaptation of his work was Empire of the Sun by Steven Spielberg which remains Spielberg’s crowning achievement but one of his least successful films. The 2nd was Cronenberg’s Crash which relocates the Shepperton set dystopia … Continue reading London Film Festival Review – High Rise
Based on a stage musical by Jack Good, which was a big hit in London, Catch My Soul is a strange melange. The original was set in Piccadilly, but the makers of the film inexplicably shifted the action to a hippie commune in the New Mexico desert. The plot follows Shakespeare’s Othello fairly closely, only … Continue reading Blu-Ray Review – Catch My Soul
Some films are ripe for rediscovery and few are as fitting for a rediscovery than Philip Ridley’s critically acclaimed but rarely seen since it’s Cannes premiere debut film The Reflecting Skin. Ridley has only directed two more films since his debut The Passion of Darkly Noon and Heartless both are equally as good but The … Continue reading Blu-Ray Review – The Reflecting Skin
