October 2007 :: Screen Reviews

Screen Reviews

All My Loving

Matt Parish sees if Tony Palmer's trailblazing "rockumentary" on the sounds of the Sixties has stood the test of time.

Big Audio Dynamite Live

After watching this dvd of concert footage from Mick Jones post-Clash project, Big Audio Dynamite, Carl F Gauze is still waiting for the clampdown..

Great Kat: Extreme Guitar Shred

To look at the DVD box, you might thing the Great Kat is some sort of Bizarro Nancy Wilson. Not so. She's so much more, Matthew Moyer declares.

Homeland Insecurity

Bob Ham looks at the latest collection of shorts from DIY filmmaker Bill Brown, somewhere between Sal Paradise and photojournalism.

In The Shadow of The Moon

Carl F Gauze takes one small step into his local theater to check out this nifty new documentary about the famed Apollo 11 mission to the moon.

Naked You Die

Murder stalks an exclusive girls' school in this 1968 Italian murder mystery. Carl F Gauze does his mentor Joe Bob Briggs proud.

Rebus: Set 2

Ken Stott returns as the hard-drinking, hard-smoking, DI John Rebus for a second set of mysteries, based on the books by Ian Rankin. This series sees Rebus dealing with complex ciphers, underworld bosses, duplicitous businessmen, and dead cats, along with the requisite murders in each episode. Joe Frietze gives his best good cop/bad cop.

The Brave One

Shelton Hull finds much to praise in Jodie Foster's latest film. Consider it the anti-Hostel.