Ed Driscoll
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Dallas, TX, United States
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‘Overlord:’ Unconventional WWII Film Slip-Cuts Between Fact, Fiction, 1944 and 1975
In the years preceding 2018, to honor the centennial of the end of WWI, England’s Imperial War Museum allowed director Peter Jackson to rifle through their voluminous film archives. Using cutting-edge... → Read More
‘In the Court of the Crimson King’: New Documentary Explores 50 Years of the World’s Weirdest Rock Group
When most people think of “prog rock” British bands such as Yes, Genesis, and arguably, Pink Floyd all come to mind. These were ‘70s-and-‘80s-era warhorses who could fill hockey arenas and stadiums wh... → Read More
‘If These Walls Could Sing’ opens the doors to Abbey Road Studios
British poet Phillip Larkin famously wrote in 1967: Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (which was rather late for me) — Between the end of the “Chatterley” ban And the Beatle... → Read More
Is ‘Moonage Daydream,’ the New David Bowie Documentary, Worth the Roller Coaster Ride?
On January 11th, 2016, very early in the morning, with the Christmas decorations still up, when I was still living in Milpitas, I shocked to see multiple sources reporting the death of David Bowie at... → Read More
All Quiet on the Netflix Front
The new German remake of All Quiet on the Western Front spends its first 12 minutes in a montage without dialogue that provides a pretty concise view of how the German war machine of WWI continually... → Read More
Z Channel: Closed-Circuit TV for Hollywood’s Ruling Class
One of the legends of how Quentin Tarantino learned to direct was watching movies while working in a Southern California video rental store. However, the store contained not just fuzzy VHS cassettes o... → Read More
The Eventide H9000 Four Years On
Back in June of 2018, I published what was quite possibly the first review of the then-brand-new Eventide H9000 Harmonizer. At least, to my astonishment, it was the first review linked to Eventide’s W... → Read More
‘The Godfather’ at 50: Skip ‘The Offer,’ Take ‘The Cannoli’
As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, Tom Cruise was wise to demand that Top Gun: Maverick appear on the big screen and not get lost as yet another nostalgic product on the Paramount+ streaming platform,... → Read More
‘Top Gun: Maverick:’ Tom Cruise Delivers the Goods
As arguably America’s last remaining movie superstar, it’s hard to call any Tom Cruise movie a “surprise” hit, but Top Gun: Maverick has had surprisingly powerful legs in its second week at the box of... → Read More
‘Somebody Saved Me:’ Is Pete Townshend New Audio Book Worth a Listen?
In 2019, Pete Townshend, the guitarist and chief songwriter of The Who released one of his periodic works of fiction, The Age of Anxiety. That title would have worked equally well for his new Audible... → Read More
Rare Guitars on Display at the 2022 Dallas International Guitar Festival
On Saturday, I attended the 2022 Dallas International Guitar Festival at the Dallas Market Hall, the second festival after a timeout in 2020 due to the pandemic lockdown. As I wrote last year at Insta... → Read More
Fear and Loathing on the ‘Oasis of the Seas:’ Cruising in the Era of Covid
In 1959, Frankie Ford implored to his gal, “Be my guest, you got nothin’ to lose; won’t ya let me take you on a sea cruise?” But 63 years later, taking a sea cruise in “these unprecedented... → Read More
The Beatles’ ‘Get Back:’ The Long and Grinding Road
What more is there to say about the Beatles’ Get Back mini-series on the Disney Plus streaming platform? I wrote up my initial take on Thanksgiving Day. But having now survived all eight hours or so,... → Read More
The Beatles’ ‘Get Back:’ The Long and Grinding Road
What more is there to say about the Beatles’ Get Back mini-series on the Disney Plus streaming platform? I wrote up my initial take on Thanksgiving Day. But having now survived all eight hours or so,... → Read More
The Beatles ‘Get Back’ in Peter Jackson’s New Three-Part Documentary
Peter Jackson’s three-part Beatles mini-series Get Back debuted today on the Disney+ streaming service. It’s a revisionist history that reworks the hours of footage that was shot for the Beatles’ 80-m... → Read More
How to Rebuild a Recorded Song When You’ve Lost the Multitracks
In The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron’s 1992 book designed to aid those who are creatively blocked, one of her recommendations was, “Very gently, very gently, consider whether any aborted, abandoned, sav... → Read More
Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Full Metal Jacket:’ Standing in the Shadow of ‘2001’
Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket is often remembered as essentially being two movies. Its bravura bootcamp sequence made an unlikely superstar out of the late Lee Ermey and launched Vincent D’... → Read More
‘The Dam Busters’ Face Their Toughest Mission Yet: Surviving Cancel Culture
1955’s The Dam Busters is a brilliant film about stiff upper lip British bravery during WWII. Directed by Michael Anderson, it stars Michael Redgrave, Richard Todd, and in early cameo roles, Robert S... → Read More
Pink Floyd’s ‘The Delicate Sound of Thunder’ Finally Arrives as a Stand-Alone DVD/Blu-Ray
Whom the gods destroy it seems, they first place in charge of Pink Floyd. By early 1968, after founding the group and writing its classic early songs, Syd Barrett (1946-2006) became, alongside Brian W... → Read More
Stock Characters meet the Stock Market Crash: The Third Season of ‘Babylon Berlin’ on Netflix
In the classic 1966 interview book Hitchcock/Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock explained how he conceptualized suspense versus surprise on the big screen to fellow movie director Francois Truffaut:... → Read More