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Mon, 10 Jun 2002 20:46:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Evo - Think of the spaceship in Alien. Imagine the kind of sounds that the mighty Nostromo would have made, in those huge, dark decks: the hum of power, the hisses and spits of various gases under pressure, the groans resonating through the hull...

Was für ein Spiel? - Funny Games

Fri, 17 May 2002 07:03:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Evo - You like violence? Guns, knives, people dying? Of course you don't, do you? What about all those films you pay money to see? You know, the classics: Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Violent movies. You like them,...

Well, it's better than Britney

Tue, 14 May 2002 21:24:39 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Evo - You can tell from the cover that she'll like it. Your little sister, that is. When you're faced with choosing between Britney Spears and Basement Jaxx for a birthday present, Basement Jaxx wins every time. And not just with your nine-year-old siblings...

Proper 'owse musick!

Fri, 3 May 2002 23:06:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Evo - Lights twinkle on the horizon. The blurry, flickering blobs arrange themselves into a pattern, a network of dark yellow lines. As you come nearer, a siren pierces through the silence. The lights come into focus, as one realises these are not the bright...

Invading Mum's Record Collection - Part 1: Bow Wow Wow

Fri, 3 May 2002 23:02:47 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Evo - Just my luck. By some sheer accident of birth, I end up being born twenty years too late. When I was hitting sixteen, I was supposed to be caught up in the middle of some loud musical uproar, a revolution through which to channel my rebellious...

Let’s Meet the Social Worker instead...

Mon, 25 Feb 2002 08:15:05 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Evo - Every comedy needs a hapless hero to empathise with. Someone who is constantly making mistakes, being clumsy or unwittingly electrocuting fish, so that, despite their faults, we can at once laugh at and with them, and can sympathise with them because,...

A Write Off

Mon, 5 Nov 2001 21:39:59 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Evo - I seem to remember there was a bit of a fuss when this film was made.The BBFC seemed to take an age to make a decision on whether to pass Cronenberg’s latest film without cutting it to ribbons; in the meantime articles were written and excerpts from the...

Dark City - Manchester

Tue, 2 Oct 2001 06:18:23 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Evo - The other day in the shop where I work, I was asked by a young German girl, “Why did you come to Germany? It is bad, or?”. I told her that at the moment it was preferable to England. Although I was being sincere, that’s not entirely true. Because when I...

A record to be dispensed, not dispensed with

Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:21:05 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Evo - I have long thought that Mouse on Mars are the future of electronic music, if not dance music. One day it seems they just decided to pop into their time machine and go back ten or fifteen years, to a time in the mid 1990s, when pop music consisted of...

The songs are timeless; the production's just dated

Tue, 6 Mar 2001 10:42:48 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Evo - They're making a film about Factory Records. Starting with the Sex Pistols' Free Trade Hall gig, it follows Tony Wilson, played by Steve Coogan, through the post-punk era, the house revolution, to the death of Factory in the early 1990s. And I'm in it...

Massive Attack's Dub Offensive

Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:27:50 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Evo - At last. Massive Attack have finally been given the dubby treatment that their music has for so long craved. In the past, their production has been at a kind of halfway point - on the verge of being dubby, but somehow holding back. There is no such...

Isn't it ironic?

Fri, 3 Nov 2000 09:17:01 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Evo - Well, you all know the format by now. On its release, Scream received widespread public and critical acclaim, due to its ironic treatment of the slash-horror genre. It was praised as being scary AND funny. But... I don't really see it.

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Orbital: The Middle of Nowhere for Orbital

Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:33:21 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Evo - I have been an avid follower of Orbital since I picked up a tape of their 'brown album' four or five years ago. Since then I have gradually got hold of all of their LPs, and once you listen to them all, it becomes clear that, over the years Orbital's...

The Best of The Orb? Hmm...

Mon, 9 Oct 2000 13:09:38 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Evo - If you've already read Sqdriver's review of this, then you'll know more or less what it is: basically a collection of The Orb's singles, plus remixes. The best of The Orb? Hardly.

I originally bought this record because, well, I'm a fan. I've...