The Day it Will Abide: ‘#1 Record’ by Big Star at 50
❉ Johnny Restall looks back on Big Star’s debut album #1 Record, released fifty years ago.
Articles by Johnny Restall
The Sins of the Fathers: ‘La Llorona’ (1933)
❉ The first horror film made with sound in Mexico deserves to be seen for its historical significance alone, writes Johnny Restall.
Fiends Reunited: ‘House of the Long Shadows’ (1983)
❉ Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee steal every scene in Peter Walker’s potboiler, writes Johnny Restall.
The Unbearable Absence of Being: Bartleby (1970)
❉ Johnny Restall finds much to admire in Anthony Friedman’s 1970 film with a score by Roger Webb.
Fake It till you Break It: ‘To Live and Die in L.A.’
❉ Johnny Restall revisits William Friedkin’s ferociously stylish 1985 thriller.
The First Cut Is The Deepest – ‘Hands Of The Ripper’ At 50
❉ Johnny Restall on an overlooked Hammer masterpiece, which debuted in October 1971 paired with ‘Twins Of Evil’.
Bill Fay’s ‘Time Of The Last Persecution’ revisited
❉ An appreciation of an almost forgotten album 50 years on from its original release, by Johnny Restall.
Have The Lambs Stopped Screaming? ‘The Silence Of The Lambs’ at 30
❉ Initially released in the UK at the end of May 1991, this movie remains a fascinating, brilliantly made piece of work.
Finding Meaning In ‘Possession’
❉ Johnny Restall examines the ferociously strange and surreal natal nightmare.
‘Klute’ At 50
❉ Johnny Restall examines Alan Pakula’s classic thriller’s unusual approach, its sexual politics, and its place in ’70s paranoid and neo-noir cinema.