Articles by James Keast

Julie Doiron & Wooden Stars

Two Solitudes

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

"I wanted Broken Girl to be a little thing that wasn't attached to me - I wanted it to be apart from me as a person." Many artists have hid...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete First Season

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

The demonically possessed fans of Buffy who own DVD players will probably buy this regardless, but for a show that has inspired the most ra...

The Man Who Wasn't There

Joel Coen

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

The writer/director/producer team of Joel and Ethan Coen have repeated tackled genre films: slapstick (Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski);...

The Simpsons: Family Ties

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

In a season crammed with the highest of high profile DVD releases (Godfather, Citizen Kane, Phantom Menace), for legions of gee… I mean ani...

Mercury Rev Break On Through

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

If you want to talk about rock'n'roll in myth-making terms, Mercury Rev top the charts. They've done it all. They recorded their debut albu...

Mifune

Søren Kragh-Jacobsen

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Two new films that couldn't seem farther apart provide a wealth of material for cross-fading cultural remixers who love to connect dots acr...

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Jim Jarmusch

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Two new films that couldn't seem farther apart provide a wealth of material for cross-fading cultural remixers who love to connect dots acr...

The Cure

The Importance of Being Earnest

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

"I wanted to make a Cure record that couldn't possibly be made by anyone else," says front-man Robert Smith. "I think we play one particula...