I’m hoping that I’m wrong about Bat out of Hell 3. Using one of my free iTunes downloads, I downloaded the first single from the album: It’s All Coming Back To Me. Most people will know it from the Celine Dion version, but that itself was a cover. The original was written by Jim Steinman [...]
This must be the day for Dead Horse Floggerage… I found out that Meat Loaf is to release “Bat Out of Hell 3“ The initial Bat album is a classic – described by Q magazine as a guilty pleasure album, Steinmann and Meat’s opus has stood the test of time. In 1993, the followup was [...]
Yet another film franchise is being unneccissarily resurrected. Die Hard 4 will follow in the footsteps of Terminator 3, Rocky 6 (Rocky Balboa), Rambo 4 and the rumoured Mad Max 4 in providing one last Hurrah for the washed-up stars. In fairness, Willis’ more recent work has been pretty good: Sin City, The Sixth Sense, [...]
I saw the new Pixar film ‘Cars’ last night, and despite the general panning it has received from the critics, I thought it was superb. With Pixar you really do set your sights high. The original Toy Story broke new ground in animation and set the bar for others to jump. The second Toy Story [...]
Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of The Worlds – live I was fortunate to see Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds on its first live tour in Birmingham last night. The musical masterpiece, the closest adaptation so far of the original HG Wells novel has, amazingly, never been performed live in its entirity [...]