Janis: Little Girl Blue is an intimate documentary about the tragically short life of the titular singer Janis Joplin. For anyone coming to the work of Joplin cold the movie is a good introduction to her […]
British gangster flick Hard Tide claims to be based on a true story. Or is it just loosely inspired by one? Set in Margate, which has reportedly been a gang “turf-war” crime zone, it’s quite possible the […]
There’s a thing that used to happen in the X-Factor (and may still do, I have to confess I haven’t watched it for a while) where deluded fame hungry and tone deaf auditionees would berate the […]
The Forgotten is proof that to make a horror movie you don’t need a massive budget, gaudy make up or lashings of CGI – you need simply need a compelling chilling story, some lighting and […]
Back in the 1970s UK pornographers, living as they did in the country with some of the most restrictive laws on obscenity in the Western world, sold items illegally under the counter in sex-shops. Being […]