Tag: English-language films
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Captain Obvious – Peaches To Die For (Sam Smith vs Justin Bieber)
This was made back in May for another project but never finished, so I tidied it up for the newly resurrected Captain Obvious. I didn’t release it then cos I hate the Biebster but like the instrumental of ‘Peaches’ and love the Sam Smith song, so another dark uptempo happy/sad bittersweet groover with cheesy pop…
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RC 345: How To Survive A Plague Part 2: We Will Survive
Second part of How To Survive A Plague, and we cover the period 1989-2000 and beyond as the fight for drugs, money and action for the AIDS crisis comes to a crunch, and as Hollywood starts to pay attention (although no straight Oscar-baiting tragic gay tropes here – Peter’s Friends/Philadelphia *cough*). It’s not all doom…
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Last Starfighter sequel
The original writers of 1984’s The Last Starfighter have shared a sizzle reel with concept art from Matt Allsopp who worked on Rogue One and music from the composers from the first film. It’s an interesting take and update on The Last Starfighter, with Alex older and something a bit more adult, like Guardians of…
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RC 341: How To Survive A Plague Part 1: It Couldn’t Happen Here
February is LGBTQ* History month in the UK, and with the recent TV series ‘It’s A Sin’ it seemed time to post this musical podcast series about the last pandemic, the HIV/AIDS ‘plague’. I started this last April during the first lockdown as I could see parallels between what I lived through in the ’80s…