Archive for the 'Movies' Category


A Hard Day’s Night Live At The Hollywood Bowl

All Songs +1: The Beatles Are Live And Sounding Better Than Ever What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where a fifty year old recording of a defunct band trumps the work of the modern masters? One in which most acts play to track in search of perfection and have lived […]

Ron Howard’s Beatles Documentary

“The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years” Every artist should see this movie. It could ignite Beatlemania all over again. But it’s the arc that gets to you. Four lads with no future forced to believe in themselves turn into jaded men who just can’t do it the same way anymore. That’s […]

Brooklyn (The Movie)

Saoirse Ronan is that good in this movie. I know, I know, “Brooklyn” came out last year, was trumped-up as being Oscar-worthy, might have been nominated and even won, but I’ve given up on the Academy Awards, what was once a ritual can now be skipped, whether African-Americans are nominated or not, because movies have […]

Love & Mercy

This is a bad film and a good one too. It’s bad because the script is hackneyed, too busy with exposition, often unbelievable and certainly unnatural. But it’s good because it illuminates the insecurity of an artist. The most sensitive amongst us create the greatest work, they illuminate our warts, the human condition, that’s why […]