Boys will be boys they say, but some channel their energy into professional arenas.
It’s clear that Steve “Spaz” Williams must have ruffled plenty of feathers throughout his career, but he also paid a price for being the uncompromising force he appeared to be in most aspects of his life. Jurassic Punk doesn’t just offer an intimate look at Spaz’s struggles and triumphs; it also provides a glimpse into the unsung workers of Hollywood and the industry’s margins. Williams is…
A piece of British punk rock history is served with a couple of parts of socio-politics and insight into the current problems surrounding racism and vital feminism.
Styrene's life clearly had enough to suffice for a documentary, both in terms of where she came from, what she experienced herself and what she achieved. Her importance to punk rock is attested to by, among others, Neneh Cherry ("It was because of her that I started singing."), Kathleen Hanna and Thurston Moore…
Think Gunnar Björnstrand was hot as “Jöns” in The Seventh Seal? Want to see Harriet Andersson try on her best scream queen face? Look no further. “Brott i paradiset” (“Crimes in Paradise”) bring you at least some of the stuff you expect to find in low budget Italian crime films, but with Bergman’s actors. This gialloesque black-gloved Swedish noir trip from 1959 has two crime journalists as heroes (played by Björnstrand and Andersson, named Adam and Eve, and sharing an…
Coming of rage!
Drama about Luisa (Mala Emde) who is lured from her bourgeois home to a left-wing political collective fighting Nazism.
Some of the usual genre-markers along the way are a bit too typical of this kind of movie. Like, for example, the kind former political activist who (now an adult) offers the young people a secret hiding place in his home. He talks about how he ignored his dreams of becoming a doctor and is now a nurse…
