Anton Corbijn, the brilliant music video auteur, iconic photographer, and director of the Ian Curtis biopic Control spins some historical wax as he gets into the grooves behind some the most iconic album cover art of all time. Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey "Po" Powell formed the iconic album art design studio Hipgnosis and became rock royalty during the 1970s. Storm and Po … [Read more...] about Squaring the Circle – Film review
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White Riot – Film review
White Riot is a highly-acclaimed and 2019 BFI award winning film that charts the turbulent end of the 1970s when the National Front movement gripped the UK. Punk was exploding, and opinions were deeply divided over immigration. High-ranking politicians like Enoch Powell pushed a xenophobic agenda, and some of the biggest names in music at the time echoed these sentiments in the … [Read more...] about White Riot – Film review
The High Note – Film Review
Singing superstar Grace Davis (Tracee Ellis Ross, channeling her own superstar mother Diana Ross throughout) may be music royalty but she's in the horns of a dilemma, trying to stay relevant in an industry that values youth and profitability over a lifetime of achievement. This is one of the main narrative beats of Nisha Ganatra's The High Note, a standard though nonetheless … [Read more...] about The High Note – Film Review