DVD Reviews
Review: McLuhan’s Wake
McLuhan’s Wake Kevin McMahon The Disinformation Series Street: 01.23 Marshall McLuhan became one of the most famous intellectuals of the twentieth century with books such as The Mechanical Bride and Understanding Media. His theories of media’s effects on culture were of huge significance in his own time, and have only grown in importance since his
Review: I’m Keith Hernandez
I’m Keith Hernandez Rob Perri Self-Released Street: 01.07 Let me just get this out of the way first: Rob Perri is a genius. He has combined the likes of Being John Malcovich with 99 Tribulations to create a short, sweet and to the point look at, when T-shirts say the man, the legend, Keith Hernandez.
Review: Cracker & Camper Van Beethoven
Cracker & Camper Van Beethoven The First Annual Camp Out Live MVD Visual Street: 01.30 Concert films are usually a let down. Reunion tours are also generally a drag, especially when fans that spent their whole adolescence singing along with a band have to witness their older and uninspired heroes fuck up the chorus to
Review: Benny Hill: The Hill’s Angel Years
Benny Hill: The Hill’s Angel Years Benny Hill, Dennis Kirkland A&E TV Street: 01.06 England’s Benny Hill became a huge hit on American TV in the 70s and 80s. His fast-motion silent skits were choreographed well enough to make Charlie Chaplin one of his biggest fans, and his misogynist humor was raunchy enough (for its
Review: Sinister
Sinister Prophecies Denied Metal Mind Street: 01.16 Like most Metal Mind productions this live concert was filmed in Poland which by reputation tends to have the least excited crowds. For Prophecies Denied that exception holds mostly true aside from a small mosh pit and some headbanging in the first few rows of the crowd. That
Review: The Queers are Here
The Queers The Queers are Here MVD Street: 02.20 For hardcore Queers fan, The Queers are Here is the coolest thing since Love Songs for the Retarded. Frontman Joe Queer and an endlessly revolving lineup of others have been making simple Ramones-esque pop-punk for over twenty years now, and The Queers are Here serves as
Review: Metallica
Metallica The Videos: 1989-2004 Warner Brothers Street: 12.05.06 Metallica fans of old know that this DVD will not fit their liking. Considering Metallica didn’t come out with a music video until the And Justice For All album, their fourth record. That said video for the song, “One,” though has stood the test of time as
Review: Meat Beat Manifesto: Travelogue Live ’05
Meat Beat Manifesto: Travelogue Live ’05 Producer Jack Dangers/Editor Ben Stokes MVD Visual Street: 11.21.06 Big-beat pioneers Meat Beat Manifesto and their eminent racks of electronics were in town last year. Did you sleep on it? Unfortunately, there is no way to properly replicate the once-in-a-blue-moon multimedia experience of the current MBM quartet (featuring spectacular
Review: The Harry Smith Project Live
The Harry Smith Project Live Shout Factory Street: 11.07.06 This is one of the most incredible intersections of classic American folk music, passionate, flavorful musicianship and a who’s-who lineup of underground cult heroes ever. The songs featured are selections from the Grammy-award-winning Anthology of American Folk Music (1952), assembled by Harry Smith, groundbrreaking filmmaker and
Review: Guns N’ Roses
Guns N’ Roses DVD Collector’s Box Chrome Dreams Street 01.30 This box set consists of two separate British-made documentaries – Axl Rose-The Prettiest Star, and Guns N Roses- Sex N’ Drugs N’ Rock N’ Roll. Both films are completely unauthorized, and neither of them feature any GNR music or recent band interviews. The box set