No one wants to be defeated in this solid MJ biopic. My earliest Michael Jackson memory was on my late grandmother’s “Free Willy” VHS tape, which had his music video “Will You […]
Michael
Mother Mary
What pop stars deal with in the A24 world. Anne Hathaway plays a Sia, Taylor Swift, and Lady Gaga pop star named Mother Mary, who is going through an existential crisis and […]
I Can Only Imagine 2
A faith-based sequel that has more cliches than spirits. I know I sound like a broken record, but the reason I didn’t review the Christian music biopic “I Can Only Imagine” back […]
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
Thank you, Baz. Thank you very much for this music doc. When Baz Luhrmann was making “Elvis,” he intended to use unused footage from “Elvis: That’s the Way It Is” and “Elvis […]
The Choral
Ralph Fiennes owns this movie and the choir. “The Choral” is a period drama that seeks to win us over with its depiction of people caught in the middle of the First […]
Song Sung Blue
They got the way to groove you. I mostly heard the trailers for “Song Sung Blue,” and I thought it would be a Neil Diamond biopic. But I was wrong. It’s not […]
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
This biopic is born to run. The following is a trend of some of the recent movie musician biopics. Think about how Rami Malek’s performance of Freddy Mercury was the best and […]
Blue Moon
Another gem for Linklater and Hawke that is funny and blue. Richard Linklater’s “Blue Moon” takes place during the stage production of “Oklahoma!” (Explanation Point), but only through the perspectives of Lorenz […]
Roofman
I’m a Toys “R” Us kid with this movie. When we see Channing Tatum robbing a McDonalds and suggesting that the franchise never notice some missing money, it relaxes me because I […]
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
41 years later, and they’re still not on the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?! See this graphic above this review? Well, that’s Spinal Tap spoofing the Crosby, Stills & Nash debut […]
