‘Bang! The Bert Berns Story’ There’s a moment in this movie, when Solomon Burke is sitting on his throne, telling the story of “Cry To Me,” when he opens his pipes and starts to sing a cappella, that your heart will melt and your body will tingle because you know you’re in the presence of […]

You just can’t get the word out. This is an important story. Just last week I got a call from a major news outlet asking me if major labels were over. They’re not. We live in a cluttered society where it’s impossible to reach everybody with your message. The internet explosion which we watched for […]

He got locked in the box of being Jerry Garcia. This is not the movie I expected it to be. If you’re looking for the Altamont story, an in-depth analysis of the band’s keyboardists and their deaths, this flick is not for you. Actually, I’m not sure this film will satisfy anybody, even the hardest […]

It’s the unexpected that gets you. Once upon a time, there was a television movie review show known as “Siskel & Ebert,” or “At The Movies” or something like that, they kept changing it as they moved from PBS to Disney and gained more fame and you might be snickering saying OF COURSE but I […]