Send your movie questions to FlickChick See Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this weeks new flicks in Movie Talk Over the weekend I was reading The Phantom of the Movies Videoscope a magazine I highly recommend for its frighteningly thorough coverage of offbeat DVD releases and ran across reviews of some vintage rock and roll pictures They got me to thinking of my absolute favorite rock movie of the 1950s which is how Expresso Bongo 1959 became this weeks DVD Tuesday pick Future Manchurian Candidate star Laurence Harvey plays sharp-dressed bottom feeder Johnny Jackson a hustler on the lookout for the next big thing His hunting ground is Londons Soho a densely packed cluster of strip clubs bars and coffeehouses where the kids dance to that crazy rock and roll music And wonder of wonders he actually finds what hes looking for in Bert Rudge real-life UK pop sensation Cliff Richard a slim-hipped doe-eyed heartbreaker who plays a mean bongo Johnread more
