See it! Feel it! It’s finally time for Pop Screen to scale the all-time summit of the rock opera form – Ken Russell’s Tommy, based on the album by The Who. Pete Townsend’s achingly personal tale of a traumatised kid mistakenly hailed as a messiah, it’s got a soundtrack of […]
Roger Daltrey
A Nice Meander With Mike Leander – Cinema Eclectica 232
The Legacy: A Dated Horror Heirloom for the Late ’70s (Review)
Released to Blu-ray by the excellent Indicator label this week, The Legacy is a 1978 British-American horror mystery starring real-life couple Katherine Ross, Sam Elliott and The Who’s frontman Roger Daltrey. Ross and Elliott star as Maggie Walsh and Pete Danner, lured from their home in California to England on […]
Cinema Eclectica 46 – Pete Best of the Apocalypse
This week we go full fan-theory. Brave waters indeed. In Off the Shelf we have a body-horror masterclass with David Cronenberg’s “Videodrome”, Jules Dassin’s “Thieves Highway” – the film-noir that’s totally not a western, Wong Kar Wai’s “The Grandmaster” and a surprise aided the randomizer, which became “The Ecstasy of […]