The Height of Goth: A Night at the Xclusiv Nightclub
Synopsis: A blast from the past. This film was rescued from an old and very damaged VHS cassette tape. The original video was commissioned by the couple who ran the […]
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My First Mister
Synopsis: Meet The New Odd Couple. Jennifer (LeeLee Sobieski) is a 17-year-old Goth with multiple face-piercings and a fondness for graveyards. Randall (Albert Brooks) is a middle-aged salesman with an obsessively […]
The Forbidden Dimension: ‘The Golden Age of Lasers’
The Forbidden Dimension: ‘The Golden Age of Lasers’ 7.0 It had been years since I last heard from The Forbidden Dimension. In fact, I thought that they had sadly stopped […]
The Crow
Synopsis: Before Sin City and The Dark Knight rose, there was The Crow – the “dark, lurid revenge fantasy” (The New York Times) from director Alex Proyas (Dark City) that entranced […]
Showgirls
Synopsis: Shocking. Titillating. “Glittery (and) gleefully vulgar” (Dayton Daily News)! From the creators of Basic Instinct comes Showgirls, an “instant camp classic” (The New York Times) and a spectacularly lusty […]
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Synopsis: In the not-so-distant future, a worldwide epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet. Out of the tragedy, a savior emerges: Geneco, a biotech company that offers organ transplants….for a […]
Joy Division
Synopsis: The True Story Of The Meteoric Rise And Fall Of One Of The Most Influential Bands Of Our Time As brash and gritty as the 70’s post-punk music it […]
H.I.M.: ‘Razorblade Romance’
What do you get when you cross Michael Hutchence’s rock posturing with some adolescent satanic imagery? Why, none other than Finland’s own H.I.M. (which deceptively stands for His Infernal Majesty, […]
The Cure: ‘Seventeen Seconds’
From the first few moments of solitude on “A Reflection”, The Cure’s ‘Seventeen Seconds’ sheds much of the image forged on their first disc: here is a band that no […]
Various Artists: ‘…Imaginary Songs’
As discussed in last week’s column, there is a tremendous difficulty in meshing varying styles and/or artists to great effect on any type of compilation. The Cure tribute album ‘Imaginary […]
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