Month: June 2019
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Blu ray Review – Dumbo (2019)
Tim Burton’s Dumbo is a retelling of the classic 1941 animated film. We take a look at the new blu ray release and special features. Some people have been vocal about Disney taking some of its classic properties and updating them to ‘live action’ (which isn’t always the case if there’s no humans in the…
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Blu ray Review: Cinderella (Walt Disney Signature Collection)
Disney has released the new Walt Disney Signature Collection version of the classic 1950 animated film, Cinderella. Here’s a look at the blu ray edition. By the late 1940s, Disney was hurting from a string of bombs after they had lost connections to the film market in Europe because of the war. Those films would…
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Liam Gallagher Makes Parole From Rock Star Jail
Liam and Noel Gallagher have switched places in terms of both their personalities and the quality of their musical output. It’s time for Liam’s comeback. “I like Noel outside the band. Human Noel – that’s my brother – I fucking adore him and I’d do anything for him. But the geezer that’s in this…
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Toy Story 4
Whether Toy Story 4 needed to exist is debatable. However, the folks at Pixar have made another entertaining and emotional film, which says it all. It would be easy to be cynical about the existence of a new Toy Story movie. After all, Pixar and Toy Story 3 brought a satisfying closure to the story…
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The Dead Don’t Die
The Dead Don’t Die misses a real opportunity to rejuvenate a genre and introduce a true master to legions of young film geeks in training. It’s clear very early on in The Dead Don’t Die that all the advertising and marketing for the film has grossly misrepresented the strange, slow, and meta mix concocted by…
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Black Mountain – Destroyer
Vancouver’s Black Mountain is back with ‘Destroyer,’ an album that proves that they have only just begun to explore the sonic landscapes of the netherworlds. While some Black Mountain albums speak to me more than others, they each have the distinction of bringing something a little bit different to the table each time, probably owing…
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Dark Phoenix
The phoenix rises again, and this movie is so bad, that we can only hope it will rise again when the X-Men hit the MCU. It should’ve ended with the Apocalypse. After a solid rush out of the gate with First Class and the unexpected high of Days of Future Past, this new batch of…
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The National – I Am Easy to Find
The National’s new, ‘I Am Easy to Find’ is both music and a cinematic artwork that’s concise without being overwrought and evocative without being blunt. Full disclosure: The National are one of my favorite bands. They have been since I was an angsty teenager and discovered that the walk home from school each afternoon was…