Ronnie’s
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 […]
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Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado
Walter Mercado may not be a household name in the UK, but the Puerto Rican artrologer is a Latin American superstar, Liberace and Uri Gellar rolled into one, known for […]
Pick It Up! – Ska in the ’90s
Pick It Up! – Ska in the ’90s is a 2019 documentary about the four-year window in which American ska music was popular in the 1990s. Taylor Morden’s love letter to […]
The Show Must Go On: The Queen+ Adam Lambert Story
The story of Queen has been told numerous times, but this is the first to cover the period after Freddie Mercury’s death in 1991, showing how the remaing band members […]
Circus of Books
Documentarian Rachel Mason investigates her own family to find out more about the gay porn business her heterosexual parents have run for 30 years, while hiding the true nature of […]
My Name Is Albert Ayler
Kasper Collin’s 2005 documentary spotlights the eponymous saxophonist whose freeform playing in the 1960s rocked the jazz world back on its formal heels. People talk about rock bands being crazy […]
Art Blakey: The Jazz Messenger
Two years before his death, this 1988 documentary spotlights one of the world’s greatest drummers and bandleaders. Dick Fontaine and Pat Hartley’s fly-on-the-wall style avoids the usual retrospective approach by […]
The Goop Lab with Gwyneth Paltrow
Some celebrities use their platform to champion a cause. Jane Fonda was arrested last week for protesting climate change. Blake Lively has devoted 8 years of her life to making […]
Jazz Odyssey: The Miles Davis Story
Produced for the 10th anniversary of his death, this 2001 documentary recalls the many milestones in the life and works of trumpeter Miles Davis, the jazziest jazz ever got and […]
The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
When is a director not a director? And I don’t mean M. Night Shyamalan; I’m talking about films with misleading director credits, such as Poltergeist secretly being directed by Steven […]
