Daniel Gumble
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Interview: Melissa Auf der Maur, ‘Hit So Hard’
This week sees P. David Ebersole’s grunge rock documentary Hit So Hard: The Life and Near Death Story of Patty Schemel (2011) finally unleashed in cinemas across the UK. Detailing the life of Hole drummer Patty Schemel, the film takes an unflinching look at her time in one of rock’s most notorious and controversial bands,…
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Interview: Patty Schemel, star of ‘Hit So Hard’
Having spent the best part of a decade as one quarter of iconic US grunge rock band Hole, the outfit’s drummer Patty Schemel has finally emerged from behind the kit and out of the shadows to take the lead role in P. David Ebersole’s entertaining rockumentary Hit So Hard: The Life and Near Death Story…
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Film Review: ‘Hit So Hard’
★★★☆☆ It’s hardly surprising that anyone performing alongside Courtney Love for the best part of a decade should become accustomed to taking a back-seat when it comes to stealing the headlines. Yet it’s (finally) Hole drummer Patty Schemel that takes centre stage in P. David Ebersole’s Hit So Hard: The Life and Near Death Story…
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Interview: Dylan Southern, ‘Shut Up and Play the Hits’
Following on from 2010’s acclaimed Blur documentary No Distance Left to Run, Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace return this week with Shut Up and Play the Hits (2012), a new project detailing the final days of James Murphy’s LCD Soundsystem. Despite looking like similar projects on paper, the directorial partnership’s latest work is an altogether…
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Film Review: ‘Shut Up and Play the Hits’
★★★★★ Following on from 2010’s sublime No Distance Left to Run – an in-depth look at the formation, split and eventual euphoric reunion of Blur – directorial duo Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern return to theme of the band break-up with Shut Up and Play the Hits (2012), detailing the final day and performance in…
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DVD Review: ‘Filthy Rich & Catflap’
★★★★☆ Whilst anyone with a fleeting interest in British comedy will be familiar with Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson’s star turns in BBC’s The Young Ones and Bottom, there are precious few who will be aware of – let alone have seen – the Ben Elton-written Filthy Rich & Catflap. Having reportedly only ever been…
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DVD Review: ‘A Dangerous Method’
★★★☆☆ With a reputation as one of cinema’s pioneering figures in the art of psychological thrillers, David Cronenberg’s latest offering A Dangerous Method (2011), starring Michael Fassbender, Viggo Mortensen and Keira Knightley, represents something of a radical departure from the ‘body horror’ movies with which he is most closely associated.Taking a step back from the…
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DVD Review: ‘Shame’
★★★★★ Joining forces once again following 2008’s superb Hunger, director Steve McQueen and Irish-German actor Michael Fassbender’s (soon to appear as android David in Ridley Scott’s sci-fi epic Prometheus) latest outing Shame (2011) delves into the world of sex addiction and loneliness, ultimately resulting in one of the most powerful cinematic works to hit screens…
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DVD Review: ‘War Horse’
★★★★☆ From its initial form as British writer Michael Morpurgo’s children’s book, War Horse (2011) has since been adapted for the stage and now for the screen by arguably one of cinema’s finest exponents of the Hollywood blockbuster, Steven Spielberg. Having won all manner of plaudits in its previous formats, Spielberg, on this evidence, certainly…
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DVD Review: ‘Kill Keith’
★☆☆☆☆ With a ‘celebrity’ lineup comprising of such TV icons as Joe Pasquale, Russell Grant, Tony Blackburn and – of course – Keith ‘Cheggers’ Chegwin, it genuinely defies belief that Andy Thompson’s Kill Keith (2011) ever managed to see the light of day. There is no greater example of just how misguided, achingly desperate and…