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 […]
‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Review: Is This the Anti-‘Bohemian Rhapsody?’
In the 52 years since his first album was released, Bruce Springsteen has released 21 albums, sold more than 140 million records, won 20 Grammys, an Oscar and a Kennedy […]
‘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, […]