Guest reviewer: Caballero Oscura Korean director Chan-Wook Park gained some acclaim in the US earlier this year with the theatrical release of his revenge masterpiece, Oldboy, which represented the middle act of his revenge trilogy. Now US audiences are finally being treated to the opening act of the trilogy, Sympathy …
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Movie Review: Coast Guard (2002)
Guest reviewer: Caballero Oscura Prolific Korean writer/director Kim Ki-Duk has been on a roll lately with having his movies released in the US, such as 3-Iron, Samaritan Girl, and Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…And Spring. Now Tartan Video has dug into his back catalog and unearthed this gem from a few …
Read More »Review: Sigmund and the Sea Monsters – The Complete First Season
A testament to the talents of the cast and crew that children still find it entertaining 30 years later.
Read More »Review: The Jerry Garcia Collection, Vol. 1 – Legion of Mary
Guest Reviewer Fumo Verde Legion of Mary played together at over 60 shows from December 1974 through July 1975. All the selections from this live set have been collected from seven different shows and have been previously unissued. With Garcia’s name at the front, you’re thinking Dead-offshoot, or maybe he’s …
Read More »Review: Flatt & Scruggs – Foggy Mountain Jamboree
Bluegrass by two of the best.
Read More »Live Review: Brad Wilson – Sunset Beach 7th Annual Chili Cook-off – 9/10/2005
If you enjoy going to your local bar and listening to some great blues music, I highly recommend that you go to see Brad Wilson and his band when they come to your town.
Read More »Review: Various Artists: Jazz After Dark II
This second volume in the series continues the tradition by offering a two-disc set of jazz ballads performed by an all-star collection of artists that spans almost 50 years from 1953 to 2001. The discs are divided up into an instrumental disc and a singers disc. Disc 1 gets your …
Read More »Review: Kate Campbell – Blues and Lamentations
Campbell’s “Genesis Blues” contains the key line that encapsulates the entire album, “everything started with the blues.”
Read More »Book Review: Voices of a People’s History of the United States
"A narrative of history that was written to awaken consciousness of class conflict, racial injustice, sexual inequality and national arrogance."
Read More »Bob Dylan – No Direction Home: The Soundtrack – The Bootleg Series Vol. 7
This volume of Dylan’s Bootleg Series is the soundtrack to Martin Scorsese’s documentary No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, which will be premiering on PBS as part of the American Masters series on September 26 & 27. Disc 1 covers the years 1959-65, during Dylan’s Woody Guthrie period when he was …
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