Year: 2007
Review: Wired For Sound – A Guitar Odyssey
Wired For Sound – A Guitar Odyssey Mpi Home Video Street: 06.26 Wired For Sound documents the role of the Gibson guitar throughout the evolution of rock music. Through interviews and a dash of live music, we see how, from the very beginning of its blossoming from the blues, rock has been intrinsically bound to
Review: A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash Basil Gelpke, Ray Mccormack Docurama Street: 05.24.06 “Oil is the devil’s excrement,” is the rather off-the-cuff remark kicking off this documentary about the world’s oil crisis, a phenomenon which the film says will reduce modern civilization to a nearly stone-age level in the next few decades. Mostly made up
Review: Space: 1999, the Complete Series – 30th Anniversary Edition
Space: 1999, the Complete Series – 30th Anniversary Edition Gerry Anderson A&E Television Street: 07.31 Following on the footsteps of demise of the original Star Trek, Anderson hoped to produce a television show that would fill the void of “deep space” that Star Trek‘s conclusion left. Space: 1999 tries to tell the story of a
Review: Moogfest 2006 Live
Moogfest 2006 Live MVD Visual Street: 07.17 Moogfest 2006 Live serves as a sequel of sorts to the 2004 feature, Moog, sort of a now-watch-these-instruments-in-action presentation. However, whereas the former release focuses on artists who have or currently use various Moog synthesizers to push music forward (Meat Beat Manifesto, Charlie Clouser, Luke Vibert), this feature stars
Review: Mudman: The Odyssey of Kim Jones
Mudman: The Odyssey of Kim Jones Sandra Q. Firmin and Julie Joyce, Editors MIT Press Street: 04.01 Mudman is the typical excursion into art history. Frimin and Joyce collect four essays that try to penetrate and understand the varied and vast artwork of Kim Jones. Each essay focuses on a different aspect of the dually
Review: The Glamour Girls of Bill Ward
The Glamour Girls of Bill Ward Alex Chun Fantagraphic Books Street: 08.15 The Glamour Girls of Bill Ward captures Ward’s most impressive pinup girls of the 1950s. The book includes a great biography of Ward as well as high-quality images of the babes that made him famous. Ward started his professional cartoonist career at the
Review: Chance in Hell
Chance in Hell Gilbert Hernandez Fantagraphics Books Street: 08.01 Gilbert Hernandez is a crafty son of a bitch. He weaves a story that is as poignant as it is troubling and tense. Chance in Hell tells the story of Empress, an orphan who is raised in what can only be described as a post-apocalyptic no-man’s
Review: Freemasonry Revealed
Freemasonry Revealed The Secret History of the Freemasons Koch Entertainment Street: 09.11 The secretive nature of Masonry, the ties it has in the Latter Day Saint church’s history and history in general have always enticed a great deal of curiosity in me. When I picked it up, Freemasonry Revealed was still wrapped in its original
Review: Fabio Montale
Fabio Montale Jose Pinheiro Koch Vision Street: 08.14 Based on a trilogy of crime novels that Jean-Claude Izzo wrote in the early 90s, Fabio Montale adapts the story of a compassionate, honest yet stone-cold detective on the brink of retirement as he solves murders and tries to clean up the dingy underworld of Marseille. Alain
Review: Darzamat
Darzamat Live Profanity (Visiting the Graves of Heretics) Metal Mind Street: 08.28 I had never heard of Darzamat before, the name sounds like some sort of chemical or something. Surprisingly they are actually pretty entertaining, utilizing both male and female vocalists. The show for the DVD was filmed during the Metalmania festival this year and