‘There’s a lot of pleasure to be had in watching the hero of a story struggling upwards against the odds towards a glorious outcome no one knows about yet except us, the audience. ‘
Category: Musical biography
Drug-fuelled punk hip-hop meets virulent Irish nationalism in this origin story of the Belfast band Kneecap. It’s so weird and wild and transgressive it’s hard to believe it’s essentially true.
This biographical documentary is one minute under three and a half hours long. I had already ordered an […]
‘This feature-length biographical documentary, made last year to mark the 50th anniversary of his death, charts his progress from child performer in the pre-screen days to becoming, by the age of thirty, the highest-paid writer in the world and a star, as they say, of stage and screen. ‘
“Kingsley Ben Adir…absolutely nails Marley’s charisma, his physical gestures, his stage moves and of course that charming accent for which I am a total sucker.”
Everyone knows Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen’s modern hymn to spirituality. Not many people know all the words (I know […]
This is the movie Tom Hanks was shooting in Australia when he and his wife got Covid in […]
Originally written and posted to Facebook on 5.10.2016 You’d think there’d be nothing more to say or learn […]
The last rock concert I ever went to was INXS in Darwin at least thirty years ago. I […]
The tag line for this movie is ‘Based on a True Fantasy’, which is as apt as it […]