Archive for the 'Movies' Category


The Lilith Fair Movie

As of this writing, “Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery,” is unrated on both RottenTomatoes and Metacritic, there’s just not enough data. So the question arises, has anybody seen it? Oh, the documentary has gotten reviews. Then again, even Sarah McLachlan herself pulled out of performing at the premiere in protest against ABC/Disney’s suspension of Jimmy […]

The King Records Documentary

“King of Them All – The Story of King Records”: https://www.pbs.org/show/king-of-them-all-the-story-of-king-records/ I could watch this sh*t all day long. I love to learn, and I learned a lot watching this documentary. From the very first time I met him, in a crowd at the Troubadour, Seymour Stein talked about Syd Nathan. And seemingly every time […]

A Movie and More Mike Campbell

NIGHT CALL I found out about this via the “New York Times” Watching newsletter. I highly recommend you sign up for it. Not everything mentioned is great, but you can triangulate, do research, before you dive in. Once again, I find streaming algorithms and media hype unreliable. To give you an example, advance word was […]

Distribution

Is everything. If you can’t buy it, it doesn’t matter how good it is. I bought something on Amazon. My usual seller was out, so I opted for a competitor and when the merchandise arrived, the packaging was different. And in this case the packaging is key. So I decided to return it. Which is […]