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After falling down a manhole, music teacher and jazz pianist Joe (Jamie Foxx) is late for his dream gig, both in terms of being dead and in the sense of […]
After falling down a manhole, music teacher and jazz pianist Joe (Jamie Foxx) is late for his dream gig, both in terms of being dead and in the sense of […]
It is tragic how good Chadwick Boseman is in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, a 2020 drama based on the eponymous “Mother of the Blues” (Viola Davis) who became one of […]
Felicity Jones is pregnant, the planet is dying and the human race stands on the precipice of extinction. But that’s enough news, on with the review. In the year Blade […]
Alex “Bill S. Preston, Esq.” Winter directs this most excellent documentary on musician, composer, conductor, artist, director, businessman, ambassador and man who once sat on a toilet, Frank Zappa. Zappa’s […]
Down-and-almost-out screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz is hired by an ambitious young film-maker called Orson Welles (Tom Burke) to work on his new film. Following a car crash he’s confined to […]
Not to be confused with the Thomas Vinterberg movie, The Hunt is a Blumhouse thriller where liberal elites take cancel culture to the extreme by hunting conservative “deplorables” for sport. Ironically […]
A group of Hollywood executives defile the deceased stars of a 1970s TV series in this drivellous rehash of Fantasy Island. Currently sporting a surprisingly generous 7% on Rotten Tomatoes, […]
The long-awaited memoir from the 44th US president weighs in at a hefty 700 pages, as Obama shares thoughts and feelings from his meteoric rise and time in office. The […]
The pandemic has been devastating for jazz, both in closing down a predominantly live art form and killing a significant number of legendary musicians. This new documentary spotlights the iconic […]
What a week. First the History Channel fail to realise they’ve cast a Nazi in their woodworking show, then Netflix accidentally make a film that Alfred Hitchcock already did back […]