CREEM Magazine Returns
The iconic rock and roll magazine from the 1960s is back and just as relevant and snotty as ever.
The iconic rock and roll magazine from the 1960s is back and just as relevant and snotty as ever.
A former convict returns to London to avenge his former enemies and save his daughter. Carl F. Gauze reviews the Theater West End production of Sweeney Todd.
Starting with small-time jobs, two gangsters take over all the crime in Marseilles in this well-paced and entertaining French film. Carl F. Gauze reviews the freshly released Arrow Video Blu-ray edition of Borsalino (1970).
Aaron Tanner delivers 400 pages of visual delights from the ever-enigmatic band, The Residents, in The Residents Visual History Book: A Sight for Sore Eyes, Vol. 2.
Two teenage boys build a sexy computer girlfriend with an 8-bit computer… you know the story. Carl F. Gauze reviews Weird Science (1985), in a new 4K UHD Blu-ray release from Arrow Films.
My Love of Country (Chalky Sounds). Review by Carl F. Gauze.
Mid-century teens discover the joys of drugs, only to see themselves made examples of to all the rest of us.
Coming out in rural Indiana is no fun, and a pack of well-meaning C-list Broadway stars isn’t helping.
Amy Yates Wuelfing collects stories from the professional drinkers who hung out at John and Peter’s in New Hope, Pennsylvania, in Still Drinkin’ & Smokin’ Rockin’ & Rollin’. Carl F. Gauze reviews.
Data Doom (Greenway Records / The Reverberation Appreciation Society). Review by Carl F. Gauze.
Peer into the topsy-turvey world of cryptocurrency, a place where you can make your own money and decide what it’s worth just by waving your hand. Carl F. Gauze reviews The Highest of Stakes by Patrick Moreau and Grant Peelle.
A laundromat provides refuge and family to the lost souls of small town Texas.
Juke Box Gypsies. Review by Carl F. Gauze.
Return to that magical night in 1956 when five of the top rock and rollers met up at Sun Records for the very last time. Carl F. Gauze reviews Million Dollar Quartet at Orlando Shakes.
Here’s a fascinating documentary on Tom Sullivan and his oeuvre of low budget horror films that remade the genre in the 1980s. Carl F. Gauze reviews Invaluable: The True Story of an Epic Artist.
A musical group arises in the glory days of soul music and nearly implodes when the lead singer is replaced.
Chaos! Chaos! Chaos! Side B (Switch Hit Records). Review by Carl F. Gauze.
A child discovers an alien spaceship in the woods, and it terrorizes the town. Carl F. Gauze reviews a restored Invaders from Mars, from Ignite Films.
Carl F. Gauze gives everyone a peek at his last night of shows during the Winter Park Playhouse 6th Annual Florida Festival of New Musicals.
Florida’s Winter Park Playhouse 6th Annual Florida Festival of New Musicals entertains, as works in progress get a little light from Carl F. Gauze.
John Badham’s 1983 future-tech helicopter thriller, Blue Thunder, with its cautionary tale of militarized police and a surveillance state, still resonates decades later.
What if the miracle of sight came with a curse? The Eye builds its horror from that chilling premise.
With the thirty-fifth anniversary of debut album Whirlpool, UK shoegaze outfit Chapterhouse is back together again and touring the US as part of Slide Away Music Festival.
The Englert theater hosted Little Feat as they embark on their Last Farewell Tour.
Meiko Kaji’s katana is sharp and looking for revenge in Wandering Ginza Butterfly and its sequel, She Cat Gambler, a stylish pair of early ’70s action films.