MOVIE REVIEWS: ROCK OF AGES

Over rock and roll’s “ages” since the 1950s — and especially since the 1980s — pop music lovers have split into separate in-groups, each one becoming a veritable religion unto itself, each one scorning the others. That sort of musical disunion is apparent in the reaction to Rock of Ages, even among the critics, many […]

SILENT CLASSIC METROPOLIS TO RETURN — WITH ROCK SCORE

The independent film company Kino Lorber, which last year released a restored version of Sergei Eisenstein’s classic silent film Battleship Potemkin is now planning both a theatrical re-release and a DVD/Blu-ray release of another classic, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. But while Potemkin employed the original score created for the film, the Metropolis release will use Giorgio […]