by Dave Bradley | Dec 23, 2019 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock/Cinema Cult, Rated M, 125 minutes. (Flashback DVD Review) Roman Polanski co-wrote, directed and starred in (despite oddly receiving no credit for the latter) this 1976 filming of Roland Topor’s novel after his Chinatown but before Tess and him becoming an...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 19, 2019 | Book, Books, Reviews
Mick Wall (Hachette Australia) 2019, 310pp, paperback RRP $32.99 Indefatigable rock and roll biographer Wall has previously turned out very readable but somewhat conventional books upon Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Black Sabbath, Foo Fighters, Lou Reed, Prince and many...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 20, 2019 | Book, Books, Reviews
Jo Wood (Hachette Australia) 2019, 255pp, Hardback $39.99 Jo (Josephine) Wood (née Karslake), model, entrepreneur, author, TV type and dancer (sort of), here offers another book about her life as missus to Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood, whom she writes about with such...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 20, 2019 | Book, Books, Reviews
Flea (Hachette Australia) 2019, 379pp, Paperback $32.99, eBook $14.99 Flea, a.k.a. Michael Peter Balzary, Australian-American actor and a founding member of The Red Hot Chili Peppers, begins this volume of autobiography with an original poem by fan Patti Smith, and...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 14, 2019 | DVDs, Reviews
Defiant Screen Entertainment, Rated MA. Prolific Canadian genre-specialising co-directors, co-writers, co-producers and co-stars Jen and Sylvia Soska (a.k.a. ‘The Soska Sisters’ and ‘The Twisted Twins’) have made a selection of infamous shorts (Dead Hooker In A Trunk,...