Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
SYNCHRONISED swimming is perhaps the most deceptive of all Olympic sports. Behind the lipstick, hair gel, fixed smiles and sequined swimsuits lurks a lung-bursting test of ath
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | yesterday
In synchronised swimming, behind the lipstick, hair gel, fixed smiles and sequinned swimsuits lurks a lung-bursting test of athleticism, artistry, and skill
The Herald (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Scotland's new Highland-based film festival unveiled its inaugural programme yesterday which is dominated by classic and cult films overlooked in recent years.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Two big names may dominate this year's programme, but there's plenty of work by other artists to whet the viewing public's appetite, writes
Julia (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
I have been singing that White Stripes song a lot. Enough that Patrick picked it up and I can hear him warbling "Oh I can tell that we are gonna be friendsssssss" over and over while he works on his...
Webomatica (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Synopsis Nervous director Julian Marsh (Warner Baxter) helms the Broadway musical "Pretty Lady" in the midst of the Great Depression, starring Bebe Daniels (Dorothy Brock) and wide-eyed ingenue Peggy Sawyer (Ruby Keeler).
Defamer (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
newVideoPlayer("/chan4_def.flv", 506, 423,"");· If you love The Shining—and who doesn't—we're pretty sure you'll love this commercial plugging a Stanley Kubrick retrospective on UK...
Later On (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Last night I watched a double feature that turned out quite well: Paprika (2006) and The Gang’s All Here (1943). Paprika is an intriguing science-fiction anime with a good plot and good characters. Really quite remarkable and well worth seeing. The Gang’s All Here is the quintessential Busby Berkeley musical: he directed, it’s in Technicolor, and he [...]
The Stage (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Playhouse, Liverpool: Like a bottle of vintage Krug, there is an awful lot of fizz with Phil Willmott's musical. The set, a revolving lobby, bedroom and roof of the once grand city centre hotel, is gloriously constructed. The many costumes are sumptuous and add enough colour and depth to make the show appear to have a cast larger than 15. The music and songs are quite catchy, with lyrics underlining...
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
We’re back to noir for a couple flicks, following the unlikely noir star Dick Powell in his turn as Philip Marlowe in 1944’s MURDER, MY SWEET. I say unlikely because the image he has in my mind from the last three AMADs, Busby Berkeley musicals, is very young and carefree. Square even. It’d be like Justin Long doing his thing now and then in 9 years plays a hard-boiled badass and is believable in the...
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
Today’s movie was GOLD DIGGERS OF 1935, the third of three Busby Berkeley films we’re hitting on the list and strangely enough the only one to actually be directed by Berkeley himself. He directed and choreographed the musical numbers in all of them, but here he takes on the drama and comedy as well.Berkeley regulars Dick Powell and Hugh Herbert return, playing very similar roles to what we’ve seen...
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
Ahoy, squirts! here with today’s installment of A Movie A Day.[For those now joining us, A Movie A Day is my attempt at filling in gaps in my film knowledge. My DVD collection is thousands strong, many of them films I haven’t seen yet, but picked up as I scoured used DVD stores. Each day I’ll pull a previously unseen film from my collection and discuss it here. Each movie will have some sort of connection...
The Click Heard Round the World (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
Check out this wonderful Busby Berkeley dance scene from the movie "Gold Diggers" (1933) featuring Ginger Rogers. The song is "We're in the Money," of course. I love the awesomely weird Pig Latin bit toward the middle! I've been brushing...
Something Old, Nothing New (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
Don't forget that this week is Fox's re-release of Busby Berkeley's insane Technicolor masterpiece The Gang's All Here , the last movie where he really got to do what he did best. (Except for Gang , he spent most of the '40s at MGM, a studio with absolutely no tolerance for his story-be-damned self-indulgence. But Busby Berkeley making normal musicals where the numbers are of a normal length, work...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
Nazi soldiers may have been capable of unspeakable atrocities but they sure do put on a terrific show in The Triumph of the Will. Chopped down to music-video length, director Leni Riefenstahl's brilliantly insidious 1934 Nuremberg Nazi party rally documentary is shown during gallery hours in its own darkened screening room, although echoes of its shrill cries of "Sieg Heil" find their way everywhere...
