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CD Review of T.S.O.L. "“Disappear”" (Nitro Records)

Nineteen-sixty-nine was the year in which an undeniably elaborate UFO-themed Soviet ruse was put into place over in Russia.

That’s quite a title for an article! But, you’ll quickly see why I chose to use it. Kenneth Goff is detailed in Federal Bureau of Investigation papers of May 1955 as being “…a self-styled freelance Evangelist who for the past number of years has been speaking around the U.S. regarding the threat of communism to... Read more »

As a reviewer, Ive always regarded myself as a generalist, lurching from a novel this...

“Education was the simplest of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe collection and possibly the most effective. McQueen evoked the look and feel of 1970s Britain with smoking headmasters and Roobarb on TV at teatime wonderfully. An eloquent and beautifully performed end to the anthology.” “This capper to an extraordinary run of work is the definition of a small axe, making its point with a tidy economy and focused just on a single oak-felling at hand. I was often reminded of Alan Clarke’s work f...

Lannick Gautry and Nadia Farès in The Red Shadows. Photograph: Fabien Malot/Channel 4 Imagine if Crossroads had been relocated to the south of France and the cast – Benny, Miss Diane and even Amy Turtle – replaced by impossibly beautiful women and men with abs so defined you could slice baguettes with them. Such is the Gallic hokum that is The Red Shadows (Channel 4). Domaine de Saint-Victoire boasts a hotel, a golf course, glamor...

TV Editor Theres a major HBO documentary about the Bee Gees, more madness with Ray and the gang on The Den, some David Blaine, Ant & Dec, Mortimer & Whitehouse and the finale of Small Axe . . . Pick of the Day The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? 9.00pm, Sky Documentaries & NOW TV This HBO documentary chronicles the triumphs and hurdles faced by brothers Barry, Maurice, and Robin Gibb, otherwise known as the Bee Gees. The iconic trio, who found early fame in the 1960s, went on to wri...