I’ve Had the Time of My Life with this high-spirited dancing romcom. We have a lot of “Dirty Dancing” spirits in “Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty,” a cultural intersection romcom that has exuberant […]
Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution, Spread Love & Overalls, and Created a Community That Changed the World (in a Canadian Kind of Way)
A delightful doc about a delightful stage production. I knew who Gilda Radner was thanks to my grandmother, who loved her on “Saturday Night Live” and introduced me to the filmed version […]
Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger
Don’t turn around. See this concert doc that rocks in IMAX. Oasis is the English rock band that formed in 1991 with Liam Gallagher as the lead singer, Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs on […]
Nimrods
A funny movie about American Idiots. “Nimrods” is another one of those coming-of-age road trip movies with cliches, but a number of funny and tender moments. If you happen to be a […]
Tuner
We can hear a lot here, and it gets loud. When I found out “Tuner” was about a crime movie with the main protagonist having a hearing condition, I was thinking back […]
Michael
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 […]
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 […]
