What was an overall strong year for movies was especially strong when it came to documentaries about music, musicians, and music history. Here are the year's 20 best.
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Fans have been increasingly calling for DC and Warner Bros. to #releasethesnydercut of 'Justice League' but let's pump the brakes and resist giving in to the demands and threats of toxic fandom.
Oftentimes music documentaries are aimed squarely at their respective fandoms, but there’s quite a few that should be viewed from a much wider cultural perspective. Here's a list of some that should be essential viewing.
'Joker' director, Todd Phillips, has recently joined the crowded "wokeness ruined comedy" team, but like most claims of its ilk, it's much ado about nothing.
It may not have been intentional, and I have no idea what Korine's political views are, but 'The Beach Bum' is absolutely an allegory about the rise of Donald Trump.
Following a Board of Governors meeting earlier this week, the Oscars announced no new changes in regards to streaming, but the category formerly known as Best Foreign Language Film will now be known as Best International Feature Film.
The success of every filmmaker depends on their ability to create compelling stories that elevate reality, express genuine human emotions, and spark imagination and creativity. One of those iconic filmmakers who encapsulates that full spectrum is none other than Wesley Wales Anderson.
Check out some of this weeks most talked about and interesting film trailers like Fences, Silence, The Comedian, Beauty and the Beast, Kong: Skull Island, and more.
The 2010s have brought to cinema an almost exponential rise in diversity, renowned directors have released acclaimed opuses, and while the Marvels and Star Wars of the industry have gobbled up studio budgets, independent creators have still been getting it done. Don't listen to the haters--cinema is alive and well.
Few movies in recent history have met as much condemnation as 'Joker', but this concern isn’t new. In fact, it joins a long lineage of widely acclaimed films that expressed the popular rage of the times in which they were created.
'Quiz Show' is an all-around triumph of filmmaking, and by far the best film Robert Redford has ever directed, and would likely be remembered more fondly if it didn't run into the buzzsaw that was 'Forrest Gump'/'Pulp Fiction' of that same year.
'Rolling Thunder Revue' is Scorsese's second doc about Dylan and there are all sorts of elements that make it a must for anyone who's an obsessive fan of Dylan, of the counterculture, or of mid-'70s culture in general.
We're back talking about Donald Glover's Adidas collaboration, the message/non-message in Jordan Peele's 'Us', the Notre Dame fire, spoilercasting 'Avengers: Endgame', and much more.
A single mind that actually kicked the whole musical tribute concept into fifth gear - Hal Willner, the 62-year old producer/arranger/composer/event manager. Now, Willner did not invent the tribute concept, but Amarcord Nino Rota, from 1981, the first tribute album he conceived and produced practically started the musical tribute process.
Silence was a slow, trudge of a movie that dragged on for far longer than it needed to, without giving any real sense of resolution or conclusion. Outside of good performances from Garfield and a number of the Japanese cast, the movie has very little redeemable qualities and left me wondering, just who was this made for?
It's a common occurrence these days for film critics to find themselves at odds with vocal fans of a given movie, but the sparring that's been happening around Adam McKay's star-studded latest film, 'Don't Look Up', has felt notably different.
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