Posts Tagged The King Of Comedy

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October 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Joker: Film

Joker Director: Todd Phillips Warner Bros. Pictures/DC Films/Join Effort/Bron Creative/Village Roadshow Pictures There’s very little to unpack about Joker – unless you’re fascinated by the idea that a potentially compelling mental-health/system’s broken/America’s burning riff  had to be hidden inside a comic book anti-hero/super-villain origin story. Anyone thinking that it’s a piece of Trojan Horse brilliance […]

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November 14, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Jon McLeary

Jon Mcleary is the creator of The Spines, check them out on Bandcamp. They will be playing two shows this coming weekend with Vorn and The Julie Lamb band as part of The Bungee Tour. He is also an artist, author of the novel Manslaughter and you can read his weekly War Stories here at Off The Tracks […]

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October 5, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1822

V/A, The King Of Comedy [OST] (1983) This was a nice find, picked this up recently. Bought it because I love the movie The King Of Comedy – I think it’s one of the very best pieces that the DeNiro/Scorsese pairing gave us. It would be churlish to call it the best but I do […]