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How would you go about making a movie portrait about a football player ? This may be a bigger challenge than one might think. the obvious way would be the chronological life & time…

The bass player leaves (or is sacked from ?) the band - and Byford takes over the bass while singing, for this recording. I do think this ads to a flatter and overall less optimal …

Saxon desperately tries to rub shoulders with the overproduced hair metal of the day ... and honestly, the quality of this album is a slight improvement over the last one, which is…

Saxon at this point seem to have lost their core nerve or direction, and instead imitate whatever is popular at this point. yes they still sound like Saxon at least, but this is me…

This fifth studio album makes a new era for Saxon. It seems that the change of drummer and the sign of the times of US style hair metal had its influence on their style. Maybe a de…

The fourth album within about 2 years and they are still riding the wave. An impressive level of quality in such a short timespan ... basically 4 classic metal albums in a row. !…

Saxon is on a ride releasing their third album just 6 months after the second one. This time spending some more time in the studio achieving higher level of production than previou…

Lars Ulrich (Metallica) famously recount the first experience of hearing Saxons "Motorcycle Man" in a record store. The motorcycle sound shifting between the channels a couple of t…

Saxon is one of those strangely popular, yet rather overlooked metal bands. They have been going for more than 40 years and have a strong fan base the world over. Yet they do not g…

It all seems to come together in a cohesive "story" that spells "the economic takedown of the western fiat monetary system" (that has to go down soon anyway). Then helping people …

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Recently, I acquired an old "guilty pleasure" of mine on blu-ray, the movie "The Name of The Rose" from 1986, directed by J.-J. Annaud starring Sean Connery, in one of his best per…

I tend to like German movies - going all the way back to early expressionism. In modern times they mostly have that "european" feel to them and that is not necessarily a bad thing …

Story in movies is essential. It is the bread and butter of their final quality in my opinion. Plot can be interesting. Cinematography, music, blocking and so on, are all important…

Biopics are usually a kind of a love/hate "ambivalent" experience for me. As much as I love and enjoy (most) art, when art tries to portray artists, it often gets curled up in irre…

In some ways "Rope" is a pivotal moment in Hitchcock movie career. It was the first colour movie, the first real-time format and it was the first movie for his own independent film…

Imamura was a "pupil" of the famed director Ozu, not least on the acclaimed "Tokyo Story". But Imamura was of a new generation and looking for, if not neo-realism, then at least, a…

Hot of the trail of watching and reviewing "The Spirit of '45", a Ken Loach "documentary" about the "benefits" of post world war 2 democratic socialism in Britain, reviewing Leigh'…

The movie in review here, is a reminder to me that the idea of "documentary" is in itself elastic and potentially a tool to distort the "reality" it supposedly documents, into an i…

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