Pennsylvania Hardcore (2014)
Despite this being a movie about Pennsylvania, my hometown of Pittsburgh got lumped in with Erie, a city 127.8 miles away. They showed Club Laga. Roboto and Graffiti, but that was about it, to be honest, outside of some still photography. Yes, despite two hundred interviews made for this film, the Steel City got the […]
Rollercoaster (1977)
“Hey, just wait a minute there, you smug and pretentious, know-it-all pseudo-film critic . . . what’s this disaster-suspense drama doing in the middle of a “Rock ‘n’ Roll Week” of reviews? This is just a knockoff of Dirty Harry crossed with Earthquake, and instead of Clint Eastwood’s police inspector, we get an amusement park […]
Battle of the Mods (1966)
If you’re a fan of the Who — and watched or listened to their 1973 rock opera Quadrophenia — you’re up to speed on the two warring British youth subcultures known as the Mods and the Rockers that came to worldwide notice courtesy their numerous, violent confrontations in mid-1960’s London. And you know about their […]
Shake, Rattle and Rock (1956)
Edward L. Cahn made everything from Our Gang shorts to It! The Terror from Beyond Space and The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake. He also made this “rock ‘n roll vs. the squares” movie that features Fats Domino and Big Joe Turner. Playing on a double bill with Runaway Daughters, this was but the start of American-International Pictures reaching […]
Never Too Young To Rock (1976)
This is purely a British film steeped in nostalgia for the short-lived British glam rock movement that spawned the likes of David Bowie, T. Rex (“Bang a Gong“), and Sweet (“Little Willie“), and to a lesser extent — at least for U.S. audiences — Mud (“Tiger Feet“), Slade (“Cum on Feel the Noise“), and Suzi […]
Confessions of a Pop Performer (1975)
Part of the four-part series of British Confessions sex farces, this installment focuses on Timothy Lea (Robin Askwith, Four Dimensions of Greta), who is trying to make it in the world of pop music as he joins the band Kipper while remaining a window washer. Seriously — this movie is a Benny Hill-ish romp that I don’t think […]
Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
Who would expect that a big budget movie based on an Archie Comic and Hanna-Barbera cartoon would end up being a movie so willing to bite the hand that feeds and presents a world where the world of pop music is all one giant conspiracy to sell you things? While it’s selling you things, of […]
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