Tag Archive: review

Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes – Thom Yorke

Somethingyousaid.com’s Tom Spooner live reviews Thom Yorke’s Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes on first listen. Here goes… Thom Yorke has just released an album. By ‘just’ I mean within the last few hours. It is available… Read More

Life of Crime – Movie review

Bobby Townsend reviews the new comedy/drama from Daniel Schechter, which is adapted from the work of Elmore Leonard: You may recall author Elmore Leonard’s characters Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara being portrayed by Samuel L.… Read More

The Little Death – Film Review

Australian actor/writer Josh Lawson makes his directorial debut in this comedy, which was voted second in the 2014 Sydney Film Festival Audience Award for Best Feature. The Little Death, derived from the expression… Read More

Before I Go To Sleep – film review

Celebrity guest contributor, the legendary Hugh Cornwell, reviews the new movie from writer/director Rowan Joffe, which sees a woman (played by Nicole Kidman) wake up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic… Read More

ODESZA, In Return – Album Review

Seattle-based electronic duo ODESZA are back with their sophomore album, In Return. It’s been two years since their debut release Summer’s Gone, but summer is definitely back, alive and kicking with their latest… Read More

Busdriver, Perfect Hair – Album Review

  Elaina Ransford reviews the tenth studio LP from Busdriver, which follows his highly-acclaimed 2012 release, Beaus$Eros: Perfect Hair (a fantastic and apt title) is a bass-heavy, heavily 90’s influenced album that is, at… Read More

Only Lovers Left Alive, the beauty of being

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TbxI_oRSKI Only a side-effect, but already quite some achievement: With his latest movie, Jim Jarmusch saved the genre of vampire movies from hyped over-produced teen-kitsch… Only Lovers Left Alive is much more a road-movie… Read More

We Are The Best! – Film Review

In We Are The Best!, Swedish director/screenwriter Lukas Moodysson’s delivers a must-see for anybody who is thirteen, anybody who has ever been thirteen and anybody for whom music has had a profound affect on their… Read More

The trouble with Locke is…

Melissa Oey reviews the new flick from Steven Knight: Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) is an Everyman whose carefully constructed picket fence existence becomes threatened by a singular and supposedly uncharacteristic incident in his past.… Read More

Daddy Gadman – No Human/Mic Shy

  Good things come to those who wait. Its been a year since Rongorock’s last release, the very catchy and critically-acclaimed Oyster Card by Mark Professor. In that time labelhead and producer Wrongtom has… Read More

Film Review: Lucy is daft but fun

Bobby Townsend reviews the moderately ludicrous new Luc Besson flick: There is enjoyable irony to the fact that a film about the potential capabilities of the human brain requires absolutely minimal thought from its… Read More

The New Pornographers: Brill Bruisers

Lisa Says checks out the latest longplayer from the Canadian act: Have a look at the packaging. There you see something that reminds you of a typical North-American billboard, a somewhat Las-Vegian neon… Read More