John Hurt

Pop Life: An '80s hitmaker tours on new solo work

DENISE SULLIVAN Yep Roc Records Singer-songwriter Peter Case will perform tonight at Beatnik Studios in midtown Sacramento.Sometimes it makes for a complicated route, but singer-songwriter Peter Case has always made music...

DVD vs Blu-Ray: Hellboy 2

Studio: Universal Studios Running time: 120 Minutes Lost in the 2008 comic book movie shuffle is one of the best comic book films, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army. Hellboy might not be as widely known, but he is just as noticeable....

Nov 12, 2008: An Evening with Finger Style Guitarist Marjorie Thompson with Bassist Greg Franklin...

An Evening with Finger Style Guitarist Marjorie Thompson with Greg Franklin Bassist Presenter: Heartland at Home Concerts Artist: Marjorie Thompson with Greg Franklin Genre: Finger Style guitarist playing traditional and...

Aliens and Lego, Two Great Tastes in One

You know what's scary? Alien is scary. No matter how many times I watch that flick, I get all nerved up when they decide to examine the alien vessel. Fairly recently, there's been a couple of really great Alien themed Lego...

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

If you haven’t already seen shelves and shelves of this DVD at Blockbuster, or passed by a display rack at Target, the DVD of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was released on October 14th. Available as both a...

US Presidential Race : "Recount" (2008)

A timely look at the events leading to the Dubya Bush Presidency Jay Roach's review of the characters and events which led the campaign to resolve voting uncertainties in Florida in 2000 With the 2008 US Presidential race...

"Recount" - RTE 2 tonight - essential viewing

"Recount" - RTE 2 tonight - essential viewing For anyone interested in U.S. politics, “Recount” is a HBO drama about the farrago which ensued during the 2000 Bush - Gore election when votes in Florida were miscast - all that...

Terri Hendrix brings warm spirit to Winter Wind

By Doug Hillpop writer"I've noticed that artists are pooling up together to do songwriters in the round and things like that. Entertainment dollars have changed. It's a totally different time now," Terri Hendrix said by...

Halloween special: your favourite creative movie deaths

It's the time of year when thoughts turn to blood-spattered horror. Photograph: Kobal Collection As a horror fan you tend to become somewhat immune to gore. I always find that it's the period of suspense - the synapse-straining...

I'm Not Going to Disneyland!

New York magazine has asked a bunch of political bloggers what they're going to do with their time once the election is over. I'm in there along with Markos Moulitsas, Markos Steynos, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ben Smith, Rachel Sklar,...