Tagged: music

alexander miller / monday movie / movies

January 8, 2024

Monday Movie: Distant Voices, Still Lives, by Alexander Miller

Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Distant Voices, Still Lives originally ran as a Criterion Prediction. When you ask someone about “British Cinema” they’ll likely imagine Victorian or Medieval Melodramas, Kitchen Sink...

home video hovel / movies / reviews / rudie obias

September 26, 2023

Home Video Hovel: La Bamba, by Rudie Obias

At this point in time, the music biopic is a tried and true subgenre complete with loads of clichés and tropes. Anyone who has watched Jake Kasdan’s parody Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story knows that the music biopic is...

2023 / david bax / movies / reviews / sundance / sundance 2023 / Theatrical Review

February 14, 2023

Sundance 2023: Jamojaya, by David Bax

Jamojaya, the latest melodrama from one of the best currently working melodramatists, Justin Chon (Gook, Blue Bayou), returns to the subject matter of family, which has dominated much of his oeuvre. This time, we’re focused on the growing distance between...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

November 3, 2022

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story: Dare to Be Smart, by David Bax

If I were a schoolkid assigned, for some reason, to write a report on Eric Appel‘s new high-concept biopic parody Weird: The Al Yankovic Story and I really wanted to phone it in, I could probably get pretty near the...

alexander miller / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

August 11, 2022

Inu-Oh: Rock of Ages, by Alexander Miller

Amid the glut of Miyazaki wannabes, soapy teen melodramas and the other various fare being peddled out, we must be grateful for the likes of Mamoru Hosoda and Masaaki Yuasa (whose new film, Inu-Oh, is out now), the two foremost...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

March 24, 2022

Stunt Rock: Forever, by David Bax

Given that the Jackass franchise has, of late, been exuberantly embraced by the cinephile set, this is an ideal time for a restoration and re-release of Brian Trenchard-Smith’s ridiculous but infectiously exciting 1978 film Stunt Rock. Like a standard iteration...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

October 21, 2021

Songs for Drella: Death and Disaster, by David Bax

Edward Lachman is one of the most talented and prolific cinematographers of the last 30 or so years. He’s worked with many of the cinephile-favorite directors of that time period, including multiple collaborations with Steven Soderbergh (Out of Sight, Erin...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

October 14, 2021

Deep Blues: Goin’ Down South, by David Bax

Easily the biggest problem with far too many of today’s music documentaries is that they don’t have enough music. Or they do but they let their windbag talking head interviewees pontificate over it, self-defeatingly turning the very reason for the...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

July 1, 2021

Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised): Things Come Together, by David Bax

Over the course of Questlove’s Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), multiple comparisons are drawn between Woodstock and the concert series the film depicts. There are even comparisons specifically between the footage we’re seeing and...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

June 18, 2021

The Sparks Brothers: Beat the Clock, by David Bax

There are so, so many documentaries about musicians out there that I’ve taken to establishing a benchmark that almost none of them can hit. Is the movie more edifying/enlightening/rewarding/etc. than spending a commensurate amount of time just listening to the...

Tagged: music

Monday Movie: Distant Voices, Still Lives, by Alexander Miller

Home Video Hovel: La Bamba, by Rudie Obias

Sundance 2023: Jamojaya, by David Bax

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story: Dare to Be Smart, by David Bax

Inu-Oh: Rock of Ages, by Alexander Miller

Stunt Rock: Forever, by David Bax

Songs for Drella: Death and Disaster, by David Bax

Deep Blues: Goin’ Down South, by David Bax

Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised): Things Come Together, by David Bax

The Sparks Brothers: Beat the Clock, by David Bax

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