http://www.blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/ DVD Reviews from Blurt en-us Fri, 25 May 2012 02:32:15 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/163/ (Eagle Vision, 90 mins.)   www.eagle-rock.com   BY RANDY HARWARD The Osbournes made Ozzy a joke. For ratings, MTV trampled over his reputation as a heavy metal founding father and balls-out crazy rock god, portraying him as a doddering old burnout shuffling about a gaudy mansion ruled by his bulldog wife and bratty kids. Even if that was the reality, some ]]> Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/163/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/162/  (Cinema Guild; 107 minutes)   www.cinemaguild.com   BY JOHN B. MOORE   It's a sad reality when ska/pop bands like No Doubt or Reel Big Fish are better known than Fishbone, a band that helped create the genre. Lest you forget just how many obstacles have been put in front of this band, filmmakers Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler have managed to di ]]> Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/162/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/161/ (BBC America; 1186 mins.)   www.bbcamerica.com   BY A.D. AMOROSI   With its big screen edition planned and a one of its precious rare new shows aired in January (two more are planned for 2012) BBC America have re-released the trashy girl-gab fest from its co-creator Jennifer Saunders ("Eddy") and Joanna Lumley (Patsy) that originally came out in 2008. ]]> Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/161/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/160/ (Eagle Vision/Reelin' in the Years Productions)   www.eaglerockent.com   BY STEVEN ROSEN   The Hollies' Look Through Any Window 1963-1975 is the fifth volume in Reelin' in the Years' DVD series on the British Invasion - others have featured Dusty Springfield, Small Faces, Herman's Hermits and Gerry & the Pacemakers. Under director David Peck, thi ]]> Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/160/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/159/ (Eagle Rock)   www.eagle-rock.com   BY A.D. AMOROSI   Audiences today who never witnessed Talking Heads at their full force might miss the nuances yet there a huge differences between the David Byrne of today and the band he helped form despite the fact that Ride Rise Roar looks mostly at the Byrne/Eno/Heads period that made them infamous.   Th ]]> Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/159/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/158/ (Eagle Vision; 125 mins)   www.eaglerockent.com   BY LEE ZIMMERMAN   What's Fleetwood Mac without Lindsey Buckingham? Good question, considering what became of the band's innocuous incarnation that followed in the wake of his departure. On the other hand, some might ask what's Lindsey Buckingham without Fleetwood Mac? Despite some sumptuous solo album ]]> Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/158/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/157/ (Eagle Rock; 85 mins)   www.eagle-rock.com   BY RON HART     I have a couple of problems with the deluxe edition of the Rolling Stones' 1978 rude boy classic Some Girls (reviewed elsewhere on the BLURT website).   First, why did the powers that be behind this reissue, namely Mick and Keith themselves, choose to go with the "PARDON OUR ]]> Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/157/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/156/ (Start Productions, UK)www.startproductions.co.uk   BY JUD COST The early-'70s would have been impossible without the blistering sound of Mott The Hoople to numb the pain of the mass exodus of the Beatles, Doors and Jefferson Airplane. This near-perfect 101-minute documentary leaves no stone unturned in the tale of the band that heavily influenced the Sex Pistols ]]> Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/156/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/155/ (Eagle Rock; 162 mins)   www.eagle-rock.com   BY DAVID ISKRA   Peter Gabriel is a man in love with technology.  Like the rest of us he is a big kid who likes to play with shiny new toys. From sequencers and production tricks, his forward thinking has brought us new sounds and his early forays into multimedia and virtual reality were ahead of th ]]> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/155/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/154/ (Invincible Pictures, 103 mins.)   www.invinciblepictures.com   BY JONAH FLICKER   A Serbian Film's director, Srdjan Spasojevic, was bestowed a rare honor after the film was screened a few years ago at a festival in Spain - a charge of exhibiting child pornography and an arrest warrant issued by a Spanish prosecutor. Defenders of free speech and fell ]]> Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/154/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/153/ (Caldo Verde; 116 mins.) www.caldoverderecords.com   BY LEE ZIMMERMAN   It's noted on the back cover of this DVD that Mark Kozelek -- he of the Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon and his own somber solo efforts -- is "an artist often thought of as taciturn." Really? Ya think? Given his penchant for brooding melancholia and low-cast meanderings, that statement ]]> Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/153/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/152/ (Sexy Intellectual; 155 mins.)   www.chromedreams.co.uk   BY LEE ZIMMERMAN   At 2 ½ hours in duration, Robert Plant's Blue Note seems long. Very long in fact. It takes 45 minutes before Led Zeppelin even enters the picture, for gosh sakes. Then again, considering the fact that this narrative, which covers the evolution of Bobby Plant's musical ]]> Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/152/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/151/ (E1 Entertainment, 117 mins.)   www.e1distribution.com   BY JASON GROSS   If you don't know the subject of this rockumentary, we feel sorry for you. This metal God and Motorhead leader was shadowed for three years by the filmmakers, who gathered hosannas from most of the original Guns N' Roses, Dave Grohl and Metallica (the last two shown collabor ]]> Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/151/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/150/ BY JONAH FLICKER   Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris is perhaps better known for his more serious, political films dealing with venerable topics like criminal justice (The Thin Blue Line), war (The Fog of War), and the death penalty (Mr. Death). But even in these movies, his fascination with the oddities of the human condition is evident. After all, this is the man ]]> Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/150/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/149/ (Cat & Docs; 72 minutes) www.balladofgenesisandladyjaye.com BY LOGAN K. YOUNG I typically detest self-referential ledes, but back in the autumn of 2007, I posted the following bad news: "Psychic TV's Lady Jaye (née Jacqueline Breyer) died suddenly at her home on Tuesday, October 9 from a previously undiagnosed heart condition. The condition is thoug ]]> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/149/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/148/ (Spitfire Pictures)   www.spitfirepictures.com   BY JOHN B. MOORE   It's going to take a dead hooker in the trunk of his car for Dave Grohl to finally shake his "nicest guy in rock" image.   On Back and Forth, a documentary following the founding of the Foo Fighters up through the recording of their latest full length Wasting Light, Grohl talks ]]> Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/148/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/147/ (Oscilloscope Laboratories)   www.oscilloscope.net   BY SELENA FRAGASSI   At the opening of Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre On Tour, keyboardist/vocalist JD Samson is seen launching a toy missile rocket into the clear blue sky above a deadpan street - one of many the band traversed in 2004 when they collected the meat of the footage that makes up this lo ]]> Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/147/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/146/ (MVD, 57 mins.)   www.mvdb2b.com   BY RANDY HARWARD   In A History Lesson Part 1: Punk Rock In Los Angeles in 1984 director Dave Travis concerns himself with psychedelic punk rock, not trad punk, as the title implies. Not that the bands covered (Meat Puppets, the Minutemen, Redd Kross, Twisted Roots), despite having clear punk qualities, ever consi ]]> Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/146/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/144/ (Eagle Vision; 120 mins)   www.eagle-rock.com   BY FRED MILLS   Paint it black, you devils.   Primal Scream fans unlucky enough not to be able to attend the British band's pair of Screamadelica concerts last November 26 and 27 in London were still served reasonably well, first by the BBC (which aired most of first evening live) and later by asso ]]> Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/144/ http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/143/ (Vanguard Records; 120 minutes)   www.vanguardrecords.com   BY LEE ZIMMERMAN   Reports on Levon Helm's imminent demise are obviously exaggerated, if the visual and audio evidence provided by Ramble At The Ryman is any indication. Rumors were rife that the 71-year old singer, drummer and multi-instrumentalist was suffering from assorted age-associated ]]> Fri, 27 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blurt-online.com/dvd_reviews/view/143/