We Are the Best! (Vi Är Bäst!, 2013) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Lukas Moodysson, a former poet, has been a popular filmmaker outside his native Sweden since his feature debut with Fucking …
Films About Music
Rock All Night (1957) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Rock All Night seems at first to be one of those early rocksploitation films, a la Rock Around the Clock …
Crazy Heart (2009) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Jeff Bridges won an Oscar for this film and lord knows I can’t hold it against him. He’s quietly excellent …
Humoresque (1946) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
What might have been a standard studio weepie is alchemised into a genuinely poetic-realist epic by Jean Negulesco’s brilliant filmmaking …
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (2008) Movie Review & Film summary,Cast
What could have been a Lost in Translation for the iTunes crowd is wounded by the irritating insistence of modern …
Cadillac Records (2008) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
More a mosaic of a time and place than a bio-pic, and perhaps all the better for it, Cadillac Records …
The Boat That Rocked (Pirate Radio, 2008) Movie Review & Film summary,Cast
In honour of this film’s subject, I recommend downloading a pirated copy of the soundtrack album, which features a cornucopia …
Eight Miles High (Das Wilde Leben, 2007) Movie Review & Film summary,Cast
. Well-directed but utterly shallow biography of ’60s model, hanger-on, and faux-radical Uschi Obermaier, who flees her home town and …
Black Snake Moan (2006) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
. It’s only right that a movie paying tribute to the incantatory, perfervid nature of Blues music should tread the …
