Sound Pictures: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin The Later Years 1966 – 2016

Writing anything at all about The Beatles is rather like writing anything at all about God or Marxism – the subject is so vast, with so many entry points leading to a land filled with hedge rowed mazes each begging exploration, that if one isn’t intimidated by the prospect one has no business writing about it at all. Strictly speaking, the second and final volume of Kenneth Womack’s masterwork of a biography on the life and career of the music...

Flashbacks To 93: Hard Target

Hollywood has, from its very beginnings, been importing talent to serve both in front of and behind the cameras. John Woo had made his directorial debut in 1974 with the martial arts movie The Young Dragons (featuring action choreography by one Yuan Lung Chen, you may know him as Jackie Chan), but it was only with his 1986 film A Better Tomorrow that he came to greater international prominence. A Better Tomorrow was a film that cemented Woo’s personal style,...

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