During this consistently stifling summer of 2025, there’s been more than just a whiff of nineties nostalgia floating in the air. The reconciliation between the Brothers Gallagher and resulting sixteen-years-in-the-making Oasis reunion has apparently infused many a middle-aged bastard with… Continue Reading
Toward the end of this enjoyable and inspiring 100 minute documentary, singer-songwriter Jackson Browne describes the eponymous collective of session musicians therein as “as much the authors of these songs and this music as the artists they did it with.”… Continue Reading
22nd March 2018 Though perhaps a few notable composers have slipped the net of obscurity and garnered household name status with their contribution to the history of film – five time Academy Award winner John Williams being the most… Continue Reading
19th November 2017 “Right down where we hurt the most is where the medicine is at.” This line of rehabilitative philosophy, heard around two-thirds of the way through Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous’ ultra-intensive documentary, is a fitting summation… Continue Reading
1st August 2017 As a window on to the hate-fuelled quagmire that has shaped much of modern history – that being the enduring religious, ethnic and tribal tensions between the State of Israel and her Arab neighbours – ‘Forever… Continue Reading
13th July 2017 In the world of documentary film, the strength of a final product is, of course, sometimes contingent on the surprising or peculiar nature of its subject matter. Whether it’s former Indonesian death squad members retelling the story… Continue Reading
11th February 2017 In May 1993, Head of Creation Records Alan McGhee went in search of an old flame at Glasgow’s King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut but instead happened upon a relatively unknown band who were set to define a… Continue Reading
24th April 2016 One third of the way through his film, French born Australian director Philippe Mora ponders “How do you make a film about the Holocaust?” It’s a very good question, the most devastating genocide in history having been… Continue Reading