The movie industry was in transition in 1980 – away from the auteur-driven seventies golden era and towards the age of the eighties blockbuster. Ringing out the old guard were duds like Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate, which became shorthand for out-of-control directorial hubris and Robert Altman’s Popeye which made a better soundtrack than a film. Representing [...]
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Flashback – The Best Movies of 1989
Thursday, October 8, 2009
1989 – the year that gave us the superhero blockbuster with Tim Burton’s Batman (alas too flawed a film to quite make my final list) and a slew of Amerindie classics by future top line directors like Spike Lee, Jim Jarmusch, Gus Van Sant and Steven Soderberg. Here, then, are the best 15 films of [...]
Music: Flashback- The 20 Best Albums of 1979
Sunday, August 16, 2009
1979 was one of those amazing years in music that just makes the jaw hit the floor. When it comes to albums the year was chock full of stone cold classics. At the end of the seventies music was perched on the edge of the great fragmentation that would take hold in the eighties and [...]
Music: Flashback – The Best Songs of 1979
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
At the end of the seventies music was perched on the edge of the great fragmentation that would take hold in the eighties and especially the nineties – punk, funk, disco, pop all rubbed shoulders along with the first stirrings of hip-hop. It’s also the year Sony’s Walkman would hit the market, revolutionizing the way [...]
Flashback! The Best Movies of 1969
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
A few weeks ago we looked at the best albums of 1969 – now it’s time to take a look at that year’s best films. It was a year when the line between exploitation pic and blockbuster were blurrier than ever and when the close of a tumultuous decade was cause for reflection around the [...]