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Schultze Gets The Blues

Schultze is a recently retired German miner facing impending death and leading a god-awful supremely sad and boring life.  His only outlet is playing polkas on his accordion which he does with a fatalistic reluctance until one day he accidental tunes his radio to a station that is playing zydeco music which combines blues with … Continue reading

Screwball : the farce behind Baseball’s doping scandal

  Even when you have lived in Miami for a couple of decades you feel that you may become immune to the latest big scandal that inevitably involves bribery, corruption and most of all illegal drugs, but you never quite do. Some of it however, like the doping professional baseball players high drama is full … Continue reading

Searching For Sugarman

Back in 1969 an unknown singer-songwriter called Rodriguez was discovered performing in a dive bar in Detroit and was immediately offered a deal to record two albums. His music bore more than a passing resemblance to that of Bob Dylan, but his first album ‘Cold Fact’ received  critical acclaim but only zero sales, and when … Continue reading

Selma

This extraordinary wonderful new film that finally brings Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Martin Luther King centre stage in a Hollywood movie focuses on just one of the most crucial periods in his life. After the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act had made segregation illegal, most of the South simply ignored the new Law and still … Continue reading

SENNA

One cold January evening K & I are two of just five people waiting in line at Sundance Film Festival for a Press Screening for ‘Pariah’, whilst the line next to us is heaving and bustling with far more people than the Cinema will hold.  We check our schedules to see if we have made … Continue reading

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