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Category: Musical biography

EPiC:  Elvis Presley in Concert  

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‘…not just a documentary or a concert film, but rather a project that befits the magnitude of Elvis as a performer but also offers deeper revelations of his humanity and inner life.’

April 7, 2026 Film Reviews, Musical biography, True story/biopic

Midas Man

‘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. ‘

September 11, 2024 Film Reviews, Musical biography

Kneecap

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. 

September 8, 2024 Film Reviews, Musical biography

In Restless Dreams – The Music of Paul Simon

This biographical documentary is one minute under three and a half hours long.  I had already ordered an […]

June 20, 2024 Film Reviews, Musical biography, True story/biopic

Mad About the Boy

‘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. ‘

May 17, 2024 Film Reviews, Musical biography, True story/biopic

Bob Marley – One Love

“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.” 

February 20, 2024 Film Reviews, Musical biography, True story/biopic

Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song

Everyone knows Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen’s modern hymn to spirituality.  Not many people know all the words (I know […]

July 22, 2022 Film Reviews, Musical biography

Elvis

This is the movie Tom Hanks was shooting in Australia when he and his wife got Covid in […]

July 14, 2022 Film Reviews, Musical biography

Eight Days A Week

Originally written and posted to Facebook on 5.10.2016 You’d think there’d be nothing more to say or learn […]

October 5, 2021 Film Reviews, Musical biography

Mystify: Michael Hutchence

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The last rock concert I ever went to was INXS in Darwin at least thirty years ago.  I […]

July 17, 2019 Australian, Film Reviews, Musical biography, True story/biopic

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