Helen K Parker
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DVD: Children's Film Foundation Bumper Box Vol 2
The Children’s Film Foundation began life in 1950, its brief to provide wholesome home-grown entertainment for Saturday morning cinema audiences....
Reissue CDs Weekly: Recording Is The Trip - The Karen Dalton...
“My favorite in the place was Karen Dalton. She was a tall white blues singer and guitar player, funky, lanky and sultry. Karen had a voice like...
Rock ‘n’ Roll Island: Where Legends Were Born, BBC Four revi...
“Friday night is Amami night” – that was the ad that ran from the 1920s through to the 1950s for a brand of “setting lotion”, a delightfully old-...
Single: Bob Dylan - Murder Most Foul
A combination of chopped-up newsreel and fever dream, “Murder Most Foul” is...
The Perfect Candidate review - seeking status for women in S...
Saudi director Haifaa Al Mansour is back on home...
ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads, Netflix review - a stor...
Mississippi bluesman Robert Johnson’s reputation was much enhanced...
Album: Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
Dua Lipa's self-titled debut was unmistakably the sound of a musician feeling their way. It had all the flavours of trap, tropical house, autotune...
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, BBC iPlayer - an intimate, i...
Miles – where to begin? Some 21st century revisionists find his art fatally tainted by his personal life, and his...
Vivarium review – housing ladder to hell
Imagine being trapped in your perfect home forever. It’s easy if you try now, as Vivarium’s allegory...