Lollipop Magazine

The Screamers – Live in San Francisco 1978 – Review

March 7, 2005

The Screamers is intoned in hallowed terms by the hardest of hardcore underground punk fans, but the band remains a mystery since they never released a record.

The Passion of the Christ – Review

March 7, 2005

If you love violence and are curious about how many times Jesus can topple over, bleed profusely, and be savagely crushed under his cross, rent this.

The Dreamers – Review

March 7, 2005

Matthew (Michael Pitt) meets Theo (Louis Garrel) and Isabelle (Eva Green), brother and sister who share his passion for film, but to an all-consuming level.

The Black Society Trilogy – Review

March 7, 2005

Individually or as a three-DVD set, Takeshi Miike’s Black Society Trilogy is as good a cross-section of Miike’s signature Yakuza films as you’re going to find.

Supersuckers – Live in Anaheim – Review

March 7, 2005

Funny, self-aggrandizing, and neatly straddling arena-rock bombast and no-bullshit punk rock fury, Supersuckers are the third band on an AC/DC/Ramones bill.

Shinjiku Triad Society – Review

March 7, 2005

Precisely what Takishi Miike fans expect: Blood, guts, depraved sex, overblown misogyny, Yakuza, more blood, tough guys, more guts…

Ramones- Raw – Review

March 7, 2005

The live footage varies drastically in quality, but the good stuff is tremendous. Other footage, casting a light into the band’s personal life, is boring.

Rainy Dog – Review

March 7, 2005

A subtle tale of almost accidental redemption and warped integrity, Rainy Dog is not the place to get your sex and violence fix. Thoughtful and almost sad.

Mayor of the Sunset Strip – Review

March 7, 2005

Rodney “Rodney on the ROQ” Bingenheimer, longtime DJ and staple of the Sunset Strip, describes himself as the bridge between the famous and the not-so famous.

Malice@Doll- Review

March 7, 2005

All sorts of lesbian robot sex, saucer-eyed heroines, penis-looking animal things, cleavage, bad voice acting, and machines beating the shit out of each other.