FOOTBALL, FILMS and FABULOUS MUSIC AT THE DOMINION OF OPINION
It is not too much of a leap making the assumption FUNNY COW (director Adrian Shergold, 102 minutes) is based loosely on the rise to fame of 70s singer and comedienne Marti Caine. That said the film is far from comic, often unrelentingly…
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For the next few years I never queried anything my Dad said football. How could I? He’d been to the FA Cup Final. Twice.
This is not the Los Angeles of ‘life in the fast lane’ decadence, the songwriting of Zevon closer to novelist James Ellroy than Joe Walsh…
The theory being before ‘Songs For Swingin’ Lovers’ Americans spoke English – but after it they spoke American.
‘An array of admiring luminaries voice their respect for Beck – each naming him the most innovative guitar player of the age.’
Like many ‘Best Of’ sets, ‘Bob Seger’s Greatest Hits’ is not a definitive collection of his finest work, sales no yardstick for accomplishment.
If there was an award for the most unusual film title of the year THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY (dir Mike Newell, 124 mins) would definitely be in the running. That said it is the only one it is…
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Trying to categorize I Tonya (119 mins, director Craig Gillespie) is rather like attempting to judge the main character of the piece, figure skater Tonya Harding – whose role in the infamous attack on skating rival Nancy Kerrigan prior to the United States naming…
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If a week is a long time in politics, then a year in football is often an eternity. On Good Friday 2017 (April 14th), I saw the Molineux fixture between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Brighton & Hove Albion, the visitors running…
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‘Gotta Serve Somebody’ from ‘Slow Train Coming’ won Bob Dylan a Grammy but was lampooned by John Lennon.