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Book collecting 10 years of reviews, interviews, and columns from Scene Point Blank.
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Tour:Smart: And Break the Band
Does Martin Atkins really expect folks to spend money on a DVD that promotes a book that bands can spend money on to learn how to save money on the road? Andrew Coulon hopes not.
Front & Center
A story about accepting the odds and thriving beyond them. Cindy Barrymore finds unexpected heart and soul in this tell-all from one of Madonna’s former dancers.
I Respect You, Bookerman!
Shelton Hull plays armchair literary agent with Bill Clinton’s memoirs and figures out a few different ways that these could have been released to better serve both the sympatheic audience and the “blowjob marks.”
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Sweeney Todd
Archikulture DigestA former convict returns to London to avenge his former enemies and save his daughter. Carl F. Gauze reviews the Theater West End production of Sweeney Todd.
Garage Sale Vinyl: KISS, The Solo Albums
Garage Sale VinylThis week, cuddly curmudgeon Christopher Long finds himself feeling even older as he hobbles through a Florida flea market in pursuit of vinyl copies of the four infamous KISS solo albums — just in time to commemorate the set’s milestone 45th anniversary.
Borsalino
Screen ReviewsStarting with small-time jobs, two gangsters take over all the crime in Marseilles in this well-paced and entertaining French film. Carl F. Gauze reviews the freshly released Arrow Video Blu-ray edition of Borsalino (1970).
The Residents Visual History Book
Print ReviewsAaron Tanner delivers 400 pages of visual delights from the ever-enigmatic band, The Residents, in The Residents Visual History Book: A Sight for Sore Eyes, Vol. 2.
Weird Science
Screen ReviewsTwo teenage boys build a sexy computer girlfriend with an 8-bit computer… you know the story. Carl F. Gauze reviews Weird Science (1985), in a new 4K UHD Blu-ray release from Arrow Films.
City of the Living Dead
Screen ReviewsCauldron Films’ new UHD/Blu-ray release of Lucio Fulci’s City of the Living Dead (1980) preserves one of the best Italian horror films, according to Phil Bailey.
Broken Mirrors
Screen ReviewsMarleen Gorris’s first theatrical feature is a potent feminist look at the easily disposable lives of sex workers in Amsterdam. Phil Bailey reviews Broken Mirrors.