Reviews

The Rolling Stones – Live Licks

Seventh live album from Mick, Keef and the boys.

The Grateful Dead Movie

The legendary promoter Bill Graham stares straight into the camera and declares, "Forty thousand Americans cannot be wrong!" Ah, those were the days!

The Ultimate Oliver Stone Collection

10 movies which have assessed the impact of key facets of American Culture.

Pink Floyd – The Wall: The Movie

Bob Geldof plays "Pink" in the re-release of Alan Parker's 1982 Movie.

Control Room

Robust, insightful doc by Startup.com director Jehane Noujaim examining the role of Arabic news channel Al Jazeera during the recent Gulf War. Despite being damned by Donald Rumsfeld as the mouthpiece of Al-Qaeda, Al Jazeera emerges as the only honest voice, struggling to be heard above the clamour of misinformation, manipulation and deceit (most of it, ironically, from the US networks). A real David and Goliath story, expertly told.

Taxi

Hollywood remake of great French action-comedy

The Manchurian Candidate

Demme knowing, nerve-shredding take on iconic conspiracy thriller pulls off the improbable

Jade Warrior

As a rule of thumb, most of those vertigo albums that didn't sell in the early '70s now go for silly money on eBay. The reason they didn't sell is that most of them were crap. Jade Warrior were a cut above. True, they couldn't make up their minds whether they wanted to be Cream or Jethro Tull, so they settled for a drum-free combination of both. The swirling flutes and abrasive guitars bring a certain restless beauty to "Dragonfly Day", "Psychiatric Sergeant" and "Sundial Song", although the carefully crafted textures are often let down by mediocre lyrics
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