The punk music of electronic, New Wave Men Without Hats released their debut album Rhythm of Youth in 1982 to international acclaim and success. Defiant lyrics and infectious instrumentation filled the album, with singles like ‘Safety Dance’ and ‘Living in China’ crowding the billboards as top hits.
Category: Reviews
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) – Review
For one who was not a fan of the first Mission Impossible by Brain De Palma – I’ll never forgive him for making Jim Phelps the villain – and less said of John Woo’s attempt the better, but I’ve really enjoyed these later installments.
“Live at Donington” by Iron Maiden (1992) A Retrospective Review
Most fans of Maiden probably know by now that Castle Donington is sacred ground for the band. The former race circuit in Derbyshire, UK has been used as a concert venue since the early 1980s, and while nowadays it’s inhabited by the annual Download Festival, a hard rock/heavy metal festival that began in 2003, it…
Battlestar Galactica: The Young Lords – Review
We’ve already seen a couple of Space Western planets – ripping off Shane and The Magnificent Seven – so for the episode The Young Lords it’s nice to see Glen A. Larson and Donald Bellisario giving us a Space Medieval Fantasy planet for a change.
Warlock (1989) – Review
“He comes from the past to destroy the future.” This was the tagline for Steve Miner’s supernatural thriller Warlock and it owes a little to James Cameron’s The Terminator as it also has a hero chasing the villain through time and landing in modern-day California. The difference here being magic instead of science.