Tag: Music
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere Powered By Quality Performances (Middleburg Film Festival)
Musical biopics have seen a renaissance over the past decade and yet another musical legend’s story has made it to the big screen. Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere covers a specific, pivotal time in Bruce Springsteen’s, played by…
Read More »Hurry Up Tomorrow Misses The Mark
Following his first concrete foray into acting with the HBO show The Idol, pop superstar The Weeknd sets his sights on the big screen with a new film that he has also co-written. Hurry Up Tomorrow follows The…
Read More »Vampires and Spirits: Sinners Keeps You Entertained From Dusk Till Dawn
Director Ryan Coogler has been on a hot streak in movie theaters essentially from his very first feature, 2013’s Fruitvale Station, through his last film Black Panther Wakanda Forever, the followup to his monumental hit Black Panther in…
Read More »The Brutalist is a Big, Epic Cinematic Swing (Middleburg Film Festival)
I am sure by now if you’re the type to pay attention to film awards or the buzz around fall film releases, you’ve heard the hype surrounding The Brutalist. Because it is a smaller independent film, its release…
Read More »A Complete Unknown is a Strong Defense of the Creative Artist
Biopics of legendary musicians have become all the rage in multiplexes post-Bohemian Rhapsody, Hollywood is a copycat town after all. Director James Mangold has crafted one following the rise of folk music legend Bob Dylan (Timothee Chalamet). His…
Read More »Emilia Pérez is a Pleasant Surprise That Effectively Melds Social Commentary, Drama, and Music Together (Middleburg Film Festival)
Multiplexes have been riddled with the remnants of musicals past in recent years with some having succeeded, like 2023’s Wonka, and others crashing and burning like Joker Folie á Deux earlier this year. Audiences have had mixed reactions…
Read More »Joker: Folie à Deux’s Meta Commentary Boring Rather Than Poignant
Joker was a controversial hit in 2019, using the iconic comic book villain as a conduit to explore real world, grounded themes in a gritty, Scorsese like world. Director Todd Phillips defied the odds and created a billion…
Read More »Trap’s Delicious Thrills and Josh Hartnett Help It Overcome a Bumpy Third Act
Director M. Night Shyamalan returns to multiplexes with his newest thriller. Trap introduces us to Cooper (Josh Hartnett), a dad from suburban Philadelphia taking his teen daughter Riley (Ariel Donoghue) to see her favorite pop star Lady Raven…
Read More »Bob Marley: One Love Does Little to Rise Above Typical Biopic Fare
Following the overwhelming box office success of 2018’s Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, films detailing the lives of musical legends were greenlit across Hollywood studio lots. The newest one, Bob Marley: One Love tells the story of reggae icon Bob Marley (Kingsley Ben-Adir) and his…
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One Battle After Another is a Stunning Achievement
Leonardo DiCaprio. Paul Thomas Anderson. Two titanic names in Hollywood who have established themselves as the best at what they do in town and future legendary figures finally connect on a movie set and bring a sprawling, ambitious…
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