Right around the same time as Mozart, there was another lesser-known composer. His name was Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, a brilliant French Creole virtuoso violinist & composer. You probably never heard of him because of the color of his skin. This is kinda-sorta his story. I say “kinda-sorta” because this movie starts with a lie:…
At first, I didn’t get it. Was this just another pretentious biopic of a musician like Rocketman or Ray? Then, after watching the full trailer, I finally got the joke! Just like one of Weird Al’s songs, this movie about Al Yankovic is a parody of his own life! How brilliant is that?! If you…
There have been so many movies depicting the life of Elvis Presley, from a 1973 TV bio-pic starring Kurt Russell, to the weird Bubba Ho-Tep, and a silly gangster heist pic with a bunch of Elvis impersonators (3000 Miles to Graceland). Here’s another one, but from snazzy, jazzy director Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge, The Great…
If they say that an artist suffers for their art, then no one suffered more than playwright & songwriter Jonathan Larson, who died too young at 35. He only wrote only two musicals, but they were both ahead of their time and filled with tragedy and loss, much like his own life. In this semi-autobiographical…
Leave it to Pixar to come up with another afterlife animated feature. First was their hauntingly beautiful Coco in 2017, which dealt with Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead), now we have a second movie that again deals with your immortal soul and what happens after you die. Mixing elements of All Of…
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