Bitterness Personified

Just before the new documentary Little Richard: I Am Everything hit UK cinemas, the BBC swooped in with its own feature length effort, Litt...

  Let’s face it: spring 2023 has been a grey, dismal bust so far! To remedy that, this month’s Lobotomy Room cinema club whisks you away to ...

  Prepare to be comprehensively freaked-out this April when the free monthly Lobotomy Room film club (our motto: Bad Movies for Bad People) ...

/ Pictured: Self Portrait 1st Time on Oxy, Berlin, 2014 by Nan Goldin / In Laura Poitras’ lacerating Oscar-nominated new documentary All th...

  In 2022 the sugary high cholesterol collab of our dreams dropped when the Duncan Hines corporation and beloved Country & Western diva ...

  “Every inch a lady – until you look at the record! Part of her was Ritz – part of her was “racket” – all of her was exciting! Beth Austin ...

Oldshowbiz is the essential Tumblr account of comedian turned author and astute show business historian Kliph Nesteroff devoted to “Showbi...

  Recently watched: Swan Song (2021).   In the sleepy town of Sandusky, Ohio, geriatric former hairdresser Pat Pitsenbarger (Udo Kier) ha...

  “There’s only one word to describe rich, dark, beautiful and rare. I’m going to call you … Mahogany!” Yass, Queen! In honour of Pride M...

 /  Johnathon Schaech and Jessica Lange in Hush / Recently watched: Hush (1998). Tagline: “Don’t breathe a word …”   Hush is a long-for...

As you may know, I paid my dues throughout the late eighties and nineties writing for hardcore punk zines like Flipside and MAXIMUMROCKNROL...