Nominated for best foreign film this year, Felix Van Groeningen’s romantic drama The Broken Circle Breakdown is, as the poster describes “a cross between Walk the Line and Blue Valentine” an... Read more
The fact that Sacha Baron Cohen isn’t playing Freddie Mercury still pisses me off. I’m sorry but the guy is a great actor, can sing a bit and looks like the man he is playing. T... Read more
There’s a wonderful moment in Inside Llewyn Davis, the latest film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, in which the titular Llewyn Davis, a vagabond folk musician in the pre-B... Read more
Since the beginning of film we’ve generally had two distinct types of films: documentaries and narratives. However, with the rise of “reality” television and documentary d... Read more
Concert documentaries are always fan favorites. Generally the people that see these films know a thing or two about the artist and crave more information about them while wanting to underst... Read more
In 1971, three African American brothers who lived in Detroit — Bobby, David, and Dannis Hackney — formed a band. The three grew up surrounded by Motown music and initially star... Read more
Journey is a band whose trademark is the high register of their vocals. But by 2007, they had no singer. After failed attempts at rekindling the fire they once had with original frontman S... Read more
Over the summer Magnolia Pictures pictures released Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsso’s crazy Swedish film, Sound of Noise, on DVD. Having already seen the film I have reposted my r... Read more
Like Shut Up Little Man!, Searching for Sugar Man recalls a pre-internet era, when we couldn’t just leap on a computer and figure out what happened to has-been celebrities with a few m... Read more
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