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May 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Beastie Boys Story: Film
Beastie Boys Story Directors: Spike Jonze Fresh Bread / Pulse Films / PolyGram Entertainment / Apple TV+ In a filmed companion piece to the fabulous Beastie Boys Book surviving Beasties Adam (“Ad-Rock”) Horowitz and Michael (“Mike D”) Diamond continue to pay tribute to their fallen comrade, Adam (“MCA”) Yauch; friend and collaborator Spike Jonze is […]Archive
March 31, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Uncut Gems: Film
Uncut Gems Directors: Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie Elara Pictures / IAC Films / Sikelia Productions / Netflix The Safdie Brothers wowed people with 2017’s Good Time – which was basically Dog Day Afternoon re-cut amongst millennial angst and the pressures of the steely-grey world of today, yet it had – entirely – its own […]Archive
March 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Above The Shadows: DVD
Above The Shadows Director: Claudia Myers HIPZEE / Myriad Pictures / Boundary Stone Films / Bondit Media Capital / Gravitas Ventures What a hard sell this must have been – a romantic sci-fi drama that features, to varying degrees, MMA, Jim Gaffigan, Megan Fox and a cover and cover design that suggests the whole thing […]Archive
March 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Clown: DVD
Clown Director: Eric Forsberg The Global Asylum LLC / Vendetta Timed, no doubt, to cash in on the latest rekindling of Pennwise via the rebrand-reboot of the IT franchise and of course the standalone Batman villain origin story, this attempted horror is more shocker than shock-filled.Archive
March 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
JT LeRoy: DVD
JT LeRoy Director: Justin Kelly Universal Pictures Home Entertainment / Vertigo Releasing / Rialto By now we all know the story of JT LeRoy – an invented author-name, an avatar that Laura Albert hid behind to create fictious stories masquerading as a troubled autobiography; she fooled the cool crowd of the late 90s and early […]Archive
March 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Susanne Sundfør: Self Portrait Original Soundtrack [EP]
Susanne Sundfør Self Portrait Original Soundtrack [EP] Bella Union Susanne Sundfør’s latest release is the soundtrack to a documentary film about the anorexic photographer Lene Marie Fossen. The film sounds compelling, the movie’s trim album score will take you part of the way there. Over simple, evocative piano pieces – some with slight choral undertones […]Archive
March 2, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Lighthouse: Film
The Lighthouse Director: Robert Eggers A24 / Regency Enterprises / RT Features Robert Eggers made a splash with his re-imagining of ghost-story informed horror, The Witch and follows that up here with a gritty, grim period black-comedy/existential horror film – The Lighthouse. The psychological horror film is making a comeback and the timing is perfect […]Archive
February 27, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 246 – Miranda July, Wellington, 2016
When I rented Me And You And Everyone We Know back in 2005 I had no idea who Miranda July was – I was just renting a quirky indie film. But the writer, director and star of the film made an impression and a couple of years later I was buying her book of short […]Archive
February 21, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Legend of Baron To’a: Film
The Legend of Baron To’a Director: Kiel McNaughton Department of Post / Madman Films The Legend of Baron To’a isn’t great – but it’s charming in its way. It’s so easy to sit back and watch it happen; to be amused in part, to cringe in that way that we do with some of the […]Archive
February 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Trainspotting 2
The movie Trainspotting 2 had a huge affect on me. Far more than I thought might be the case. And though I’ve never felt the woolly warmth of immediate opiate afterglow, I connected with the characters more so than in the case of the first film (A classic, sure – but Trainspotting 2 didn’t celebrate). […]Archive
February 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman