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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Awakenings, Doc, Doco, Doctor, Documentary, Film, Film Review, His Own Life, Memoir, Movie, Movie Review, Neurologist, Oliver Sacks, Oliver Sacks - His Own Life: Film, Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Biopic, Bowie, David Bowie, Film, Film Review, Gabriel Range, Johnny Flynn, Marc Maron, Movie, Movie Review, Stardust, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron, Ziggy Stardust ·

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November 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Postcard Killings: DVD

The Postcard Killings Director: Alison Ellwood GFC Podcard / Good Films Collective / Hindsight Media / Madman Based on a bestselling James Patterson crime novel (is there any other kind?) The Postcard Killings arrives on DVD and blu-ray about a decade after the book. And though I’ve not read the source material I had fairly […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Crime, Cush Jumbo, Danis Tanovic, DVD, DVD Review, Famke Janssen, Film, Film Review, James Patterson, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Movie, Movie Review, Postcard Killings, The Postcard Killings: DVD, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Laurel Canyon: DVD

Laurel Canyon Director: Alison Ellwood Canyon Films, LLC / Madman It’s hard to see this as anything more than a boomer circle-jerk: Oooh, we had the best music didn’t we… Laurel Canyon is this near-mythical place in songs, in albums, in bands’ biographies. It is real. It was a place; a place where a large […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 60s, 70s, Alison Ellwood, Canyon Films, Crosby Still and Nash, Doc, Doco, Documentary, Documentary Review, DVD, DVD Review, Eagles, Film, Film Review, Frank Zappa, Joni Mitchell, Laurel Canyon, Laurel Canyon: DVD, Linda Ronstadt, Madman, Movie, Movie Review, Music, Music Doco, Neil Young, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 13, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Alive: DVD

Alive Director: Rob Grant Vamanos Films / Madman Alive is by no means great, but it can be quite good. It starts off feeling like a run-of-the-mill torture-porn horror, and yes, I’m almost embarrassed by how jaded and bored I was when I delivered that line…almost…
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November 4, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Ava: DVD

Ava Director: Tate Taylor Voltage Pictures / Freckle Films / Vertical Entertainment / Madman Ava starts off okay – but boy does it slide. And quickly. And when I say it starts off okay I mean okay in a same-old-story, lazy-night-on-the-couch, female-assassin action-film way. You’ve got your trackies on and your expectations low. Unfortunately by […]
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October 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Lazy Susan: DVD

Lazy Susan Director: Nick Peet SHOUT! FACTORY   Lazy Susan is, quite extraordinarily, the worst comedy film you might ever see. In that it’s only joke – pretty much the literal lone ‘joke’ – is that the female character of Susan is played by a man. That man is Sean Hayes (Will & Grace) who […]
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August 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Booksellers: Film

The Booksellers Directors: D. W. Young Greenwich Entertainment / Madman The Booksellers is very much a does-what-it-says-on-the-tin doco; the clue is in the title. Couldn’t be more obvious if it was displayed like a sign in a shop window…er, kinda like the poster and all the branded imagery relating to the film and its marketing.
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Book, Books, D.W. Young, Doco, Documentary, Film Review, Fran Lebowitz, Gay Talese, Greenwich Entertainment, Madman, Movie, Movie Review, New York, Parker Posey, Susan Orlean, The Booksellers, The Booksellers: Film ·

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June 30, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Richard Jewell: DVD

Richard Jewell Director: Clint Eastwood Malapaso Productions / Appian Way Productions / Warner Bros. Pictures Richard Jewell is the story of a security guard that went from national hero to chief suspect in a crushing blow for his own health and sanity and in an awful trial-by-media persecution that is just part of the downfall […]
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June 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

This Is Not A Movie: Film

This Is Not A Movie Director: Yung Chang National Film Board of Canada (NFB)  / Documentary Edge Festival Subtitled Robert Fisk and The Politics of Truth – This Is Not A Movie is both portrait of Fisk and his working methods and a reminder of how journalism has changed, perhaps how far it’s fallen; certainly […]
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June 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Saul & Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band: Film

Saul & Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band Director: Tod Lending Nomadic Pictures / Documentary Edge Festival Did you follow through with that lifelong artistic dream during the recent paid 8-week vacation of Lockdown? Did you pick up the drum-sticks for the first time, or first time in years? Did you write that novel, or paint a […]
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June 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

#UNFIT – The Psychology of Donald Trump: Film

#UNFIT: The Psychology of Donald Trump Director: Dan Partland Spectrum / Documentary Edge Festival The current sitting president of America – their 45th – is a horrible, uncaring, negative, double-speaking piece of shit. Or, in psychology-speak, a malignant narcissist. Yep, there’s a term for his brand of bullying and gaslighting – mixed with fear, arrogance, […]
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