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January 17, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Another Couple of Balls and An Extra Set of Fingers
Neal Page is a high-strung marketing executive. Del Griffith is goodhearted but he’s annoying. He sells shower curtain rings. Neal and Del spend three days together trying to make it home to their families for thanksgiving – they live in the same city, but ahead of a chance encounter, a taxi cab muck-up and then […]Archive
January 10, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Blanck Mass: Calm With Horses (Original Score)
Blanck Mass Calm With Horses (Original Score) INVADA Records When not one half of the group Fuck Buttons, Benjamin John Power has been making music as Blanck Mass. I never gelled with group work but love his solo electronica pursuits. So I was pleased to hear it was him behind the score to the movie […]Archive
January 2, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Rob Simonsen: The Way Back (OST)
Rob Simonsen The Way Back (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Watertower Music The Way Back was an okay movie, an occasionally ‘good’ or at least thoughtful movie – but where it’s been heralded as a great sports drama, the real story was the one of addiction and attempts at redemption; not really a sports drama at […]Archive
December 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Brian Eno: Film Music 1976 – 2020
Brian Eno Film Music 1976 – 2020 UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) Brian Eno: dreamer, schemer, enabler, conceptualist, visual artist – he’d be important if he wasn’t in any way connected to music. And though he doth almost protest too much as blatant “Non-Musician” his influence is towering. I always say that his fingerprints are all […]Archive
December 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Oliver Sacks – His Own Life: Film
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life Director: Ric Burns Zeitgeist Films The neurologist and author Oliver Sacks died in 2015, aged 82. He had been diagnosed with cancer at the start of that yet, estimated his time left on this earth as mere “months” and was correct. He was gone by September. The publication of his […]Archive
December 8, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Comeback Trail: Film
The Comeback Trail Director: George Gallo Cloudburst Entertainment / March On Productions One of the worst things about this Pandemic Year is that shite films arrive with hype and fanfare since it’s hard work getting people to the cinemas, and/or there hasn’t been anything new for ages, and/or marketing hacks gotta live. (Apparently).Archive
November 27, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Stardust: Film
Stardust Director: Gabriel Range Salon Pictures / Wilding Pictures / IFC Films Stardust is a little movie. That could have been fine. There are some wonderful small pictures. But Stardust is also a terrible movie. Plagued by many things – not just a lack of Bowie’s music, and distancing from the estate. For a start, […]Archive
November 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Billie Holiday & The Sonhouse All Stars: BILLIE – The Original Soundtrack
Billie Holiday & The Sonhouse All Stars BILLIE: The Original Soundtrack Verve The story behind the just released new Billie Holiday documentary is nearly as interesting as the film itself. BILLIE was started in 1971 by a journalist interested in the background story. Holiday had died, nearly penniless 12 years earlier. She had, for a […]Archive
November 24, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Kevin Smuts: My Octopus Teacher [Music From The Netflix Documentary]
Kevin Smuts My Octopus Teacher [Music From The Netflix Documentary] Maisie Music Publishing, LLC For me, by far and away the best thing about the recent Netflix documentary hit, My Octopus Teacher was its soundtrack.Archive
November 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Preview: Ethersonic, Kodama 木 + a new film dir. by Baxter Gray ‘Solar’ – Pyramid Club, Wellington, Friday, November 27, 2020
This Friday at Wellington’s Pyramid Club there’s a multi-media showcase of music, projections and film – including the premiere of the film ‘Solar’ by Baxter Gray. A film about a future that we hope will never occur its themes of isolation, xenophobia and a post climate-change world are of course very real; a reflection of fears […]Archive
November 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman