Month: September 2003

Three For The Road

Dark's Corner

Dark’s Corner :: Three For The Road - September 30th, 2003 :: Tuesday, September 30th, 2003

Once Upon A Time In Mexico

Screen Reviews

Robert Rodriguez has finally had enough of those pesky Spy Kids, and returns to his Sergio Leone-worshipping El Mariachi saga. Our man south of the border, Steve Stav, dons his bulletproof vest for a clip-emptying review of Once Upon A Time In Mexico.

Natacha Atlas

Music Reviews

Something Dangerous (Mantra/Beggars Banquet). Review by Bill Campbell.

6gig

Music Reviews

Mind Over Mind (Ultimatum Music). Review by Dylan Garret.

Makin’ Toons

Print Reviews

On the one Mickey Mouse hand, Makin’ Toons: Inside the Most Popular Animated TV Shows & Movies is the first real successor in interest to Leonard Maltin’s great study of the first 75 years of American animated cartoons, Of Mice And Magic. On the other, it calls The Simpsons “inarguably the finest prime-time animated series ever made.” Ben Varkentine gets animated.

Chuck Brown

Music Reviews

Your Game … Live at the 9:30 Club (Liaison Records). Review by Alicia Benjamin-Samuels.

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Pigface

Music Reviews

The Howler: An English Breakfast (Overdrive/Invisible Records). Review by Peter Lindblad.

Idiot Grins

Idiot Grins

Interviews

Ink 19 talks with Idiot Grins about the making of Golf Cart Life, their evolution from Oakland soul-rock lifers to one of indie music’s most unpredictable acts.

Deathslope Music Festival 2026

Deathslope Music Festival 2026

Event Reviews

Eight bands from Colorado and as far away as New Zealand knocked the socks off the West Slope music scene on the last day of this year’s Deathslope Music Festival in Grand Junction, Colorado.

Blue Thunder

Blue Thunder

Screen Reviews

John Badham’s 1983 future-tech helicopter thriller, Blue Thunder, with its cautionary tale of militarized police and a surveillance state, still resonates decades later.

The Eye

The Eye

Screen Reviews

What if the miracle of sight came with a curse? The Eye builds its horror from that chilling premise.

Chapterhouse

Chapterhouse

Interviews

With the thirty-fifth anniversary of debut album Whirlpool, UK shoegaze outfit Chapterhouse is back together again and touring the US as part of Slide Away Music Festival.