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albert 6th Oct 2016		Cinema Revenge Of Billy The Kid (1992)	Review Living on an island are farmer Gyles MacDonald, his wife, Grampa (who passes away early on), and 3 offspring Ronald, Ronald and Ronald (though she prefers Ronnie), oh and the 4th kid, Billy, who is a bit of an animal. Billy grows fast, scavenging food, however he pushes his luck when he goes for Gyles' moonshine and is chased from the farmhouse. Out in the wilds Billy fends for himself but develops a taste for human flesh …soon he will return to the farm looking for more food! 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 5th Oct 2016		DVD Box Of The Banned 2 - Anchor Bay Entertainment	The only title that was rare was The Witch Who Came From The Sea, others had been generally available.
albert 5th Oct 2016		DVD Box Of The Banned - Anchor Bay Entertainment	I didn't bother buying this set as most of the titles had already appeared in the UK.
albert 5th Oct 2016		DVD Blood On Satan's Claw - Anchor Bay Entertainment	Anchor Bay did a box set of Amicus films, but the BoSC disc did not have the special features found on this DVD, annoyingly. The Amicus box is in the shape of a coffin and is long deleted.
albert 4th Oct 2016		Live Music The Animals @ Tiles Club	July 2012, a last look at where Tiles was before it got demolished to build a railway for the very rich. (note the URL is likely to change)
albert 4th Oct 2016		Live Music Pink Floyd @ UFO Club	UFO Club now long since demolished, it was held in the Blarney Club (pic and some info here)
albert 4th Oct 2016		Live Music The Animals @ Tiles Club	Tiles nightclub opened on Monday 28 February 1966, note also that the address is also listed "and 1 Dean Street", the venue was apparently called Beat City before it opened as Tiles. Pathe News was there, note the fake street below ground for late night shopping: [YouTube Video]
albert 3rd Oct 2016		Live Music Incredible String Band @ Middle Earth	Added the event so that I could add Middle Earth, but it seems like those hippies didn't get the postcode right, Royal Mail's postcode finder puts it as WC2E 8JS. Middle Earth supposed to have been in a sprawling basement which you got to down a fire escape.
albert 3rd Oct 2016		Cinema Ein Kitten für Hitler (A Kitten For Hitler) (2007)	Ken Russell and Melvyn Bragg have a bet on censorship, something along the lines of 'a script that would be so offensive that even Ken would want it banned'. Ken wrote a script and Melvyn agreed that it was very offensive and Ken won the argument. But years later Ken did make the film, therefore he lost the argument. Or something like that. Anyway, it was all a fairly pointless exercise as most scripts don't ever get made into films, but "it will cause offense" isn't usually the reason why. Ken did however have problems making the film as he could not get a child actor to play the part of the child. Here is the film, the blackest of black comedies, but typical Russell nevertheless, Warning, it may cause offense: [YouTube Video]
albert 3rd Oct 2016		Cinema Savage Messiah (1972)	Caught this halfway through on TV donkey's years ago and loved it, but it took me a good many years to discover its title and the director. Now I'm hoping it will eventually come out on DVD, ....but please not another widescreen version squashed onto 4:3 like most of Ken's recent DVD releases.
albert 19th Sep 2016		DVD The Graduate - MGM	When you compare artwork across years for different releases of The Graduate, you might be amused to see that Dustin always looks the same but the legs tend to change. Also the shadow on the wall from the candlestick light is a bit unfortunate, or was it deliberate (not shown on this DVD cover).
albert 19th Sep 2016		DVD Carrie - MGM	Anyone else feel that these 'new artwork' covers are a blight on many recent DVD releases? I mean if I wanted to see that kind of rubbish I would buy a graphic novel, but I don't, that kind of artwork is oh-so samey, and totally out of place, stick it on Sin City, and erm, Sin City 2, where it belongs.
albert 19th Sep 2016		Cinema Mondo Cane N. 2 (Mondo Pazzo) (1963)	YouTube has the whole film if you look for it
albert 18th Sep 2016		Cinema Africa Addio (Africa Blood And Guts) (1966)	Has some of the most wretched images of the whole series, the hunting scenes are not for the faint hearted, the war-mongers and cruel dictators and the real killings are as you can expect.
albert 18th Sep 2016		Cinema Mondo Cane (A Dog's Life) (1962)	The whole film, starting slow and relatively sweet for the first 15 minutes then comes the first savage wallop, this is the uncut version so keep the smelling salts close at hand. [YouTube Video]
albert 18th Sep 2016		Cinema Mondo Cane (A Dog's Life) (1962)	Review "Tired of being on the heights I deliberately went to the depths in the search for new sensations" so wrote Oscar Wilde. In 1962 Mondo Cane served up an exquisite piece of trash for the jaded cinema goer and spawned a whole new genre in the process, (though non match the punch of the original). You want to see an ugly world, a primitive world, the destruction that man is capable of, the odd, the bizarre, the wretched, or to see what the rich get up to behind closed doors, its all here, with a cynical carnival-barker type narrator, glorious cinematography and a lush score (including a worldwide hit). The film now looks a little dated but remains a must-see, some scenes are unsettling and guaranteed to leave you ruffled. 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 17th Sep 2016		Cinema Death May Be Your Santa Claus (1969)	Review A radicalised black man is ejected from college and fantasizes after a mixed racial relationship. Meanwhile in London somewhere, machine gun toting revolutionaries force a bishop to beg with a suckling baby, a man endures a cannibalistic castration, a hippy chick prances and much racist babble is shouted at Hyde Park corner. Light relief comes from a freaky band who practice in a derelict house in a soot-encrusted street, and who also soundtrack much of the film. 7 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 17th Sep 2016		Cinema Death May Be Your Santa Claus (1969)	The existence of this film was disputed for years until it was included as a bonus on the Joanna DVD (BFI Flipside). The enticingly weird plot and the fact that it included early versions of the songs by Second Hand (the band) made it a hot wish-list item. Nothing available on YouTube (videos get pulled very quickly).
albert 17th Sep 2016		Cinema The Holy Mountain (1973)	What can I say about a film that defies description, an original Midnight Movie, setting the bar too high for any other in its wake. Maybe not recommended for animal rights activists. The thief's journey to the Alchemist's lair is far more eventful than the ascent up the mountain, but I don't want to write an essay. The ending is a bit disappointing though I guess the build up made the finale something that would be insurmountable anyway. [YouTube Video]
albert 17th Sep 2016		Cinema The Holy Mountain (1973)	Review Turn off your mind, relax and float down stream. Jodorowsky's visual stream of consciousness is splurged before our eyes in an avalanche of dazzling, bewildering and grotesque images that make for a uniquely enjoyable cinematic experience. I am sure there are mystic and allegorical references aplenty for the enlightened ones to spot but when Jodorowsky finally leads his bald-headed followers out of the freak show and up the Holy Mountain things become crushingly mundane until eventually reality calls a halt to the proceedings. 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 17th Sep 2016		Vinyl Album Motor Boys Motor - Motor Boys Motor	The band went on to become The Screaming Blue Messiahs
albert 17th Sep 2016		Vinyl Album The Syndromes Vs The Merciful Release All-Stars Featuring The Impossible Dreamers - Ready In The Rhythm Section	When I came down to London around 1986 I found many copies in a second hand shop that had branches in Stratford/East Ham/Barking, I scooped up all that I could, (and sold quite a few too!) Justin Adams went on to work with some big names including Sinead O’Connor and Robert Plant.
albert 15th Sep 2016		Cinema Optinen ääni (Optical Sound)	Fascinating, hypnotic, here it is... [YouTube Video] (well, most of it)
albert 14th Sep 2016		Vinyl Album Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols	The blank back sleeve copy might be a transitory edition while Virgin sorted out adding 'submission' to the sleeve, I'd like to know if it originally came with the 11 track pressing or the 12 track pressing as I've had a copy of each pass through my hands. There are tons of pressing variants regarding the lettering, some copies even state Belsen Was A Gas, I guess it was a chaotic release for Virgin. Also as an observation the often mis-quoted catalogue number "SPOTS 1" as "Sex Pistols On Tour" (which they were and did call themselves SPOTS) is actually just an identifier for the 'hype' spot sticker sometimes found on early issues with the freebie items, assumption made since Virgin put out Devo's first LP with a similar sticker notification but that one had an identifier "SPOTS 6". EDIT: got my answers on the blank back, I followed the link in previous comments, thanks PV.
albert 14th Sep 2016		TV La Cabina (1972)	At the moment there isn't really a category for it. I selected TV as the main category since it was made for Spanish TV, but there was only one sub-category available 'TV Series' and I had to select that to get the submission accepted.
albert 13th Sep 2016		Cinema Weekend At Bernie's (1989)	[YouTube Video]
albert 13th Sep 2016		Cinema Weekend At Bernie's (1989)	Review Two lowly computer dudes in a financial institution discover irregularities that prove a money laundering fraud and excitedly report their findings to Bernie, the big cheese. However Bernie is well aware of the fraud as it involves his gangster cohorts, and schemes to have the boys eliminated while they party at his swanky beach-house for the weekend. Unfortunately for Bernie, the gangsters see him as too much of a liability and it is he who ends up as cold meat. The boys arrive but cannot resist the temptation to party on, since nobody but them seems to notice that Bernie is dead, and this ultimately leads to complications with the hitman who is eager to finish the job. Tasteless yes, but the slapstick comedy and indignities that pile onto the unfortunate Bernie make this irresistibly funny. 7 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 13th Sep 2016		Cinema Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996)	hmm, what does this remind me of? [YouTube Video]
albert 13th Sep 2016		Cinema The Matrix (1999)	Browsing some old VHS videos looking for stuff to dump, I came across Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace and gave it a quick viewing. It's not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination, but then it struck me that it does have some similarities to The Matrix. (I didn't get to watch it all though as it was fairly dire). By the way The Wachowski Brothers are in fact sisters. EDIT: I stuck a trailer on LM2, so you can judge for yourselves.
albert 13th Sep 2016		Cinema Johnny Suede (1991)	Review Johnny Suede is a jerk, a star-struck no-talent loser who daydreams he is as gifted as his heroes. He lives a dead-end existence in a scummy flat and spends more time on his look than practicing on his guitar. One day a pair of suede shoes literally crashes into his life, could they help bring the success he dreams of, or will his new girlfriend manage to make him see the reality. 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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