An obvious companion piece to the BBC’s The Joy of the Single (2012), When Albums Ruled the World gets into the rock doc genre with this taut, prescient chronology of how the lowly long-playing record managed to offer jazz and soon after rock musicians powerful opportunities to create concept albums rather than a series of short tunes the major record labels could spin-off as roughly 3 mins. singles…
Directors Brean Cunningham and Douglas Seirup manage to maintain a very careful balance in this poignant portrait of a special program in which stray dogs from the American South are rescued, physically rehabilitated, and trucked up to a Massachusetts prison where minimum security inmates train the dogs over an 8 week period before they’re adopted by (primarily) families…
After travelling to the U.S. to be mentored by renowned jazz trumpet player Clark Terry, Australian drummer Alan Hicks was soon offered a prime spot in the jazz icon’s band, touring across Europe for four years before Terry’s next student, pianist Justin Kauflin, caught the drummer’s attention…
John Schlesinger (Marathon Man, Pacific Heights) directed this occult thriller that’s perhaps best-remembered by fans for a giant zit that emits spiders from Helen Shaver’s face…
Originally called Stryker’s War, Josh Becker’s film was given a weird new title by original handler Irwin Shapiro which mandated the change if Becker & Co. wanted their film to earn some exposure and make back a little green…
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