DVD Reviews

John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band: Live In Toronto ’69

Doug Collette November 12, 2009 No Comments

The rudimentary recording technique and amateurish quality of the audio/video content on this DVD is perfectly in keeping with the rough-hewn nature of John Lennon's performance with his pickup band at the 1969 Toronto Peace Festival. Even though the segment in which he appears constitutes less than half the running time of the disc, the Beatle's first solo performance in public is nevertheless a riveting experience to watch.

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Ladysmith Black Mambazo: Live!

Tim Newby February 25, 2009 No Comments

  Live! draws from all realms of LSMB's long career, including their most well known song, “Homeless”, which was co-written with Simon for Graceland.   It is quite simply the culmination of the dream Shabalala had so many years ago, and the perfect choir he envisioned.

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Smashing Pumpkins: If All Goes Wrong

Bob Lange December 30, 2008 No Comments

n June of 2007, the reunited Smashing Pumpkins (or Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlain and some new members) decided to forgo a U.S. tour and instead do two residencies, one in Asheville, NC and the other at the vaunted Fillmore in San Francisco. This was, as Jimmy Chamberlain said in the documentary portion of If All Goes Wrong, "art for art's sake," finding the band putting the present ahead of their celebrated past.

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The Clash: Live at Shea Stadium

Bob Lange November 3, 2008 No Comments

What should we expect from a live recording of a band within a year of its own demise, a band who had recently dismissed its heroin addicted drummer and was already splitting apart at the seams in the wake of its own internal turmoil? Will it show the band burning out or fading away? With Live at Shea, we get neither. Instead it finds the Clash in their prime, a prime that lasted their entire career from its earliest rumblings out of the ashes of the 101ers to the near bitter end preserved here.

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Baby Mama: Starring Tina Fey & Amy Poehler

Martin Malloy May 2, 2008 No Comments

Baby Mama never dares to be different and for this it is doomed to be just another cookie-cutter, summer comedy that will slightly stand above the rest due to Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s amusing performances.

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Tad: Busted Circuits and Ringing Ears

Bob Lange March 25, 2008 No Comments

Tad is the forgotten band of Seattle's grunge explosion, but there is a case to be made for them being among the scene's most important artists. In Busted Circuits and Ringing Ears, it is said that in 1989 "Yeah, I'm friends with Kurt," meant Tad bassist Kurt Danielson, not Cobain. They were perhaps the loudest and rawest of the bunch, giving even Mudhoney a run for their money.

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Funny Games: Feat: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt

Dave Astor March 13, 2008 No Comments

Funny Games, a shot-for-shot remake of Michael Haneke's Austrian 1997 film, is the sort of film that really shouldn't be spoiled, so I'll simply sum it up by saying that two young imps (Pitt and Corbett, who are decidedly more adorable than their Austrian counterparts) thrust themselves into the lives of a family (Watts and Roth), and force upon the family their own unique brand of entertainment.

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