The Academy Awards 2013 – All the Oscar Winners

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Last night's Oscars were pretty damn good, in terms of spreading the awards love around, although I wasn't too impressed with Seth MacFarlene's hosting abilities. Jokes ranged from snappy to slow, lame to offensive but never quite leaving the impact previous hosts have had. His opening monologue involved a laborious star trek  themed skit with William Shatner, who let's face it nobody wants to see. At one point he weirdly states how everyone probably would've preferred Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, … [Read more...]

Competition: Win the “Searching For Sugar Man” DVD here!

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Searching For Sugar Man, the most acclaimed music documentary of the year, comes to DVD and Blu-ray on 27 December 2012, and to mark the release we have 3 DVDs to give away! Malik Bendjelloul’s revelatory and compelling Searching for Sugar Man (USA/UK/Sweden) is a documentary about the Mexican-American singer-songwriter Rodriguez, who was momentarily hailed in 1970 as the finest recording artist of his generation, and then disappeared into oblivion – only to rise again from the ashes in a … [Read more...]

REVIEW: SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN

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My first introduction to the music of Rodriguez was with a cover of 'Sugar Man' in 1998, by South African Band Just Jinjer. Back then I was still a 15 year old freshman in high school, located in the northern suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa. And as far as I knew Rodriguez was a big name in the music industry. It never occurred to me to think otherwise - He was American, after all. Sugar man, won't you hurry 'Cos I'm tired of these scenes For a blue coin won't you bring back All … [Read more...]

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