Had This Is Not a Drill, the new documentary from Oren Jacoby (Sister Rose’s Passion), premiered at the Telluride Film Festival last fall, it would have played as an inspiring […]
‘Ballad of a Small Player’ Review: Colin Farrell’s Charm Can’t Save Edward Berger’s Hollow Redemption Tale
Ballad of a Small Player, the latest film by Conclave director Edward Berger, has two main things going for it. One is an arresting lead performance by Colin Farrell. He […]
‘The New Yorker at 100’ Review: Netflix Doc Is Entertaining and Star-Studded, but the Storied Magazine Deserved More Depth
With Marshall Curry‘s The New Yorker at 100, a magazine famous for its erudition and curation receives a polished, amusing and generally superficial Reader’s Digest summary of a documentary. Very […]
‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Review: Jeremy Allen White Gives Raw, Internalized Performance as The Boss in Contemplative Bio-Drama
Just as A Complete Unknown escaped the dreary conventionality of cradle-to-grave music biopics by surveying the nascent period in the stardom of its unknowable subject, Bob Dylan, Springsteen: Deliver Me […]
‘Highway 99: A Double Album’ Review: Ethan Hawke Pays Tribute to Merle Haggard With a Rousing and Soulful Pilgrimage Through His Songs
Nine years after Merle Haggard’s death at 79, Ethan Hawke has organized a public wake, and it’s a humdinger. A biography by way of California road trip and recording-studio extravaganza, […]
Paul McCartney Documentary ‘Man on the Run’ Picked Up by Amazon MGM Ahead of Telluride Debut (Exclusive)
Amazon MGM Studios has picked up Man on the Run, the feature documentary directed by Morgan Neville that explores Paul McCartney’s creative rebirth after The Beatles’ breakup. The move comes […]