Category Archives: biography

Tom Dowd and the Language of Music

Posted on November 10, 2004

The art of recording music has been born and revolutionized time after time in just the last century and a bit. One man, with a beautiful heart and a soul that was simply musical, is little known to the lovers … Continue reading →

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Twenty Four Hour Party People

Posted on September 25, 2004

A lot of people liked this movie. Not enough for it to make a profit but a lot of, um, the right people, the cool people, the people who were into the post-NewWave English music scene of the early ’80s. … Continue reading →

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This Boy's Life

Posted on August 5, 2004

At first I was confused but after a few minutes realized that This Boy’s Life isn’t A Bronx Tale even though they both came out in 1993 and co-star De Niro– for some reason I though DiCaprio, who is in … Continue reading →

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The Kids Are Alright

Posted on January 6, 2004

With the film successes of Tommy and Quadrophenia in the bank, Pete Townsend and Company capitalized with The Kids Are Alright. While the first two were ‘real’ films, with plots and everything, this one is more a collection of film … Continue reading →

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Alice's Restaurant

Posted on April 11, 2003

When most of us think of the ’60s and the hippies these days, we remember San Francisco’s Summer of Love, the scene in Greenwich Village, or the Mods in London but not too much about the little pockets that surfaced … Continue reading →

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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Posted on February 12, 2003

This movie is an excellent example of absurdity; possibly one of the best movie examples of the genre in many years. I greatly enjoyed Confessions of a Dangerous Mind though in order to be complete I should say that the … Continue reading →

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Catch Me If You Can

Posted on December 27, 2002

A John Williams composition that sounds more like Henry Mancini and a cartoonish title animation that’s heavily reminiscent of the Pink Panther’s set a breezy tone for Steven Spielberg’s Christmas Candy confection, Catch Me if You Can. They’ve even recreated … Continue reading →

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Sweet and Lowdown

Posted on October 29, 2002

Woody Allen’s 1999 release, Sweet and Lowdown is the portrait of a man to whom everything comes so easy that he is unable to appreciate any of it until reality turns him smack around. Makes one wonder if, or how … Continue reading →

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Wirey Spindell

Posted on August 20, 2002

Wow, this was a weird movie, the kind you watch and then ask yourself where the fuck did writer/director/lead actor Eric Schaeffer come up with this? Wirey Spindell is an autobiography of someone named Wirey Spindell, the child of hippies, … Continue reading →

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A Knight's Tale

Posted on May 16, 2002

Heath Ledger goes a little over the top in this fictional biography called A Knight’s Tale. Gleefully filled with anachronisms, imagine one of the better teen flicks of recent years (such as Ledger’s own 10 Things I Hate About You) … Continue reading →

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