Category Archives: Film

Michael Bayley Hughes and Bob Hewitt’s Strat Masters: The Definitive History Of The World’s Most Famous Guitar

In recent months I have seen some excellent films. But, not features. No… the lowly documentary film has roared back with a vengeance. The House That Ahmet Built (about Ahmet Ertegun & Atlantic Records,) Life Through A Lens (the story … Continue reading

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Katsuhiro Otomo’s Steamboy

Rachel Manija Brown wrote this review. Steamboy looks great in the trailers. The camera swoops through an impossibly detailed animated world filled with elaborate machinery emitting clouds of exquisitely rendered fog: steampunk in sepia. So you rush to buy your … Continue reading

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Apple TV+’s Murderbot, Episodes 1-2

The wait is over! The small screen adaptation of Martha Wells’s Hugo and Nebula winning book series The Murderbot Diaries began in mid-May (2025) on Apple TV+. Cutting to the chase: It’s good! The series opened with the first two … Continue reading

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George Lucas’s Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

This is it. The journey’s over. There’s no more new ground to cover, movie-wise. The new trilogy is officially at an end. Almost anyone who has more than a passing interest in these films has seen this movie already, most … Continue reading

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George Lucas’s Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a man took a whole slew of mythic elements and cultural themes, and wove them into one of the great stories of the 20th Century. The farm boy, ignorant of … Continue reading

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Ernst Reijseger, Tenore e Cuncordu de Orosei, and Mola Sylla’s Requiem For A Dying Planet

Rarely have I learned as much when preparing to write a review as I have learned because of this album. Not only is this the most beautiful recording I’ve heard in years, listening to and learning about it has been … Continue reading

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Roddy McDowall’s Tam Lin, a.k.a., The Devil’s Widow

Lahri Bond wrote this review. Visitors to this website may well be familiar with the famous Scottish Borders legend of Tam Lin. The original ballad, though ancient, was in the collections of both Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott, as … Continue reading

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Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bete

Jean Cocteau’s sumptuous black and white retelling of this beloved fairy tale is inarguably the finest version committed to celluloid. Drawing heavily from Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont’s 18th century written version, Cocteau wrote La Belle et la Bete’s story and … Continue reading

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Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations: Iceland Special Edition

Joseph Thompson wrote this review. In January 2010 Anthony Bourdain may possibly have visited my favorite bar. I say “possibly” because his trip to Portland, Maine, won’t air on the Travel Channel until 12 April 2010, a few months after … Continue reading

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James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown

A lot has been said and written about A Complete Unknown, pretty much all of it of it good. There are so many ways for a movie like this to go wrong, and director James Mangold seems to have avoided … Continue reading

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