Bob Marley: One Love
Bob Marley: One Love is a pretty basic biopic of Bob Marley… but it only really covers three years of his life with a smattering of flashbacks to his youth. It opens with him in Jamaica during a time of … Continue reading
Bob Marley: One Love is a pretty basic biopic of Bob Marley… but it only really covers three years of his life with a smattering of flashbacks to his youth. It opens with him in Jamaica during a time of … Continue reading
Even if Amazon’s A Million Miles Away isn’t in the pantheon of great grounded space flight movies, I’m still a sucker for what it does. I love realistic films about space travel… Apollo 13, The Right Stuff, Gravity, The Martian, … Continue reading
I Wanna Dance with Somebody is probably best watched by Whitney Houston stans. I am not one of them. I like her just fine but never got on the bandwagon. Keep that in mind while I go off on this … Continue reading
While watching Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, I asked myself who this movie was made for. And I immediately answered: Me. It was made for me. And every thirteen year old who rocked out to Eat It at the roller … Continue reading
Well, Elvis is certainly a Baz Luhrmann movie for all the hopped-up-on-energy-drinks, camera never stops, editing is King of Rock ‘n Roll kind of way. Luhrmann is a hyper-kinetic rabbity thing who never saw an editing deck he didn’t want … Continue reading
There are some biopics that end too early and give us text about what happened next, leaving me thinking that that’s the movie I’d have wanted to see. Respect is a movie that goes on and on and on and … Continue reading
Checked out the new Judy Garland biopic Judy… a movie that really needs a Judy Garland fan to really enjoy. I am not a huge Garland fan… I have passing familiarity with her as far as it goes. A movie … Continue reading
So I checked out the new Elton John biopic Rocketman over the weekend (and it’s taking me three days to work up the ambition to gripe about it). So this flick was directed by the guy who took up re-editing … Continue reading
Checked out the new biopic Tolkien. This film tells the story of young J.R.R. Tolkien from a young lad in the idyllic woods of England to his time at Oxford and then a smattering of the hell of the trenches … Continue reading
So, never thought we’d live in a world where Motley Crue had a biopic on Netflix but here we are. The movie is called The Dirt and that’s a fairly accurate title. It’s based on a book the band co-wrote … Continue reading