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Netflixable? A Brazilian pop-star biopic — “Latin Blood: The Ballad of Ney Matogrosso”

Posted on June 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

From the moment little Ney de Souza Pereira spied cabaret and carnival icon Elvira Pagã on the stage, the die was cast and his young life had purpose. All those beatings he stubbornly endured from his military officer dad because … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: Guitars, Reverb and a History of “Sound of the Surf”

Posted on June 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Here’s a fun-fun-fun little documentary about the history of surf music, a movie that remembers the surfing “fad” and enduring appeal of surf culture and the “dripping damp sound” of Fender (usually) guitars pumped through amps that had to grow … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: A Legend Gets his Due as “Swamp Dogg Gets his Pool Painted”

Posted on May 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

Documentary filmmakers are always looking for a subject that’s colorful and obscure enough to justify the years it sometimes takes to make a non-fiction film about it or them. The guys who made “Swamp Dogg Gets his Pool Painted” had … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Hurry Up Tomorrow” because this Weeknd outing can’t end soon enough

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Roger Moore

In “Hurry Up Tomorrow,” the Grammy Award winning pop star The Weeknd takes another stab at screen stardom, playing a troubled and lonely version of himself who finds out — the hard way — how “personal” some of his fans … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Vincent Cassel’s a Burned Out DJ who May Have One More “Banger” in Him

Posted on April 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

The DJ has been mixing beats long enough to have lost his hair, and have his stubble turn white. It’s been a long time since he acquired the nickname, “The Godfather of French Touch,” even longer since he was Emperor … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: Elder Statesmen of Metal recall “Becoming Led Zeppelin”

Posted on February 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

Truncated, authorized and sanitized for your protection, “Becoming Led Zeppelin” offers the tamest take you’ll ever see on the hedonistic heavy metal band that started it all. Director Bernard MacMahon agreed to limit himself to what plays as three grandfatherly … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: “Bonnie Blue: James Cotton’s Life in the Blues”

Posted on February 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

The bluesman James Cotton was the son of a sharecropping Mississippi Baptist preacher and a mother who played the harmonica. And when they died when he was quite young, he picked up his mother’s harmonica and used it to play … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: “Sly Lives! (Aka the Burden of Black Genius)”

Posted on January 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

Questlove, member of The Roots, the house band of “The Tonight Show,” viral sensation via his role in Jimmy Fallon’s “Music on (Kids) Classroom Instruments” cover song gimmick, is quickly emerging as THE music documentarian of the moment. He compiled … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Make Yourself Famous, try to be a “Better Man” and not a Pop Star Cliché

Posted on January 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

Whatever he means to other parts of the world — his UK homeland in particular — the pop star Robbie Williams falls somewhere on the “Remember him?” to “Who?” sliding scale here in the U.S. So maybe the idea of … Continue reading →

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Rediscovering Pete Seeger through “A Complete Unknown”

Posted on December 26, 2024 by Roger Moore

Casual fans will be blown away and even hardcore ones impressed by the uncanny musical impersonations that James Mangold’s “A Complete Unknown” Bob Dylan biography is built upon. Timothee Chalamet‘s utter channeling of Babyfaced Bob, the early years, getting the … Continue reading →

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