Pick It Up! – Ska in the ’90s
Pick It Up! – Ska in the ’90s is a 2019 documentary about the four-year window in which American ska music was popular in the 1990s. Taylor Morden’s love letter to […]
Category Archives: New Releases
The Show Must Go On: The Queen+ Adam Lambert Story
The story of Queen has been told numerous times, but this is the first to cover the period after Freddie Mercury’s death in 1991, showing how the remaing band members […]
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
Those feeling deprived of Eurovision this year will be pleased to experience the next best thing – but enough about the Eurovision in Isolation podcast; here’s a mind-numbing Netflix movie. […]
Da 5 Bloods
Newly released on Netflix, Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods seeks to rectify the whitewashing of war movies – think 2012’s Red Tails but with more Marvin Gaye and less George […]
Another Shark Movie 2
The eagerly unticipated sequel to 2017’s 47 Meters Down, 47 Meters Down: Uncaged is now on Netflix. Where else would it be? Boasting a cast list that reads like the […]
Been So Long: My Life and Music
The autobiography of Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen is now out in paperback, a book so beautiful it quite literally attracts butterflies. Been So Long charts the musician’s journey from […]
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires
As these are “unprecedented times” (by which I mean a year without Eurovision), here’s a book review: the new novel by the great horror writer Grady Hendrix, in which a […]
Samurai Marathon
When an American naval officer (Danny Huston) lands on the shores of Feudal Japan, a daimyo (Hiroki Hasegawa) sends his army on a 36-mile footrace to test their mettle that […]
Extraction
Extraction is a new Netflix action movie from a story by the Russo brothers – if you can count “mercenary rescues kidnapped boy” as a story. It’s odd that the guys […]
National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night
On the twelfth night of lockdown the NT gave to me… a screening of Twelfth Night for freeee. Currently available for free on YouTube, Shakespeare’s gender-bending romcom is well-suited to […]
