Thankfully, Alice leaves behind the soft-cock-rock of the Trash era, slaps on the make-up and brings back his horror theatrics updated with a grimy, post-apocalyptic edge. There's a fair scattering of tracks from Brutal Planet, which is fine by me, but the majority are well-played old favourites.
Highlights:
* The Controller!
* Alice's hair-chopsticks are back for the first time in nearly twenty years (I think)!
* Calico the gimp!
* Billy the baby from Dead Babies now has two…
In which Thulsa Doom captures Conan (who for some reason is now the son of a carpenter and not a blacksmith), has him crucified on the Tree of Woe and left for the birds to peck at his flesh.
For some reason this version is missing the ending where Conan frees himself, infiltrates the palace and kills Thulsa Doom during one of his cannibalistic orgies.
Fucking remakes!
From the opening scene of the rain covered, neon-lit streets of the city, superimposed over Chow Yun-Fat sweating, drinking a slammer and playing clarinet in a dark jazz club, we can see that this film matches its title perfectly. This is a Hard-Boiled police story in the grand tradition of Harry Callaghan, Popeye Doyle and Frank Bullitt. Everything is black and white, the hero does what needs to be done to save the day and if the brass at City…
I know I've been absent for a few weeks but my wife has had another Multiple Sclerosis relapse and is due to go back into hospital for another course of treatment - it's the same chemotherapy as they give leukaemia patients. Plus I've had to do a load of construction/carpentry work on my daughters bedroom and other assorted shit. Anyway, I thought I should at least try to get back into the swing of things and what better than the…
