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‘Crock of Gold’ Review: The Eternal Lost Weekend of Shane MacGowan
Posted in: Movie ReviewsJulian Temple’s portrait of the Pogues singer is a rambling, messy, wild, sad and inspirational doc — in other words, a fine tribute to its subject
‘Gimme Shelter’ at 50: How The Rolling Stones Got Conquered By America
Posted in: Movie FeaturesRob Sheffield on how Mick, Keef, and the gang gave the world the ultimate rock & roll horror movie
In ‘Red White, and Blue,’ Steve McQueen Exhibits One of His Most Exciting Modes as a Director: Cool Anger
Posted in: Movie ReviewsThe third film in his pentalogy stars John Boyega as a representation of frustrated, upstanding, rational black masculinity
A Tortured Guantánamo Detainee Fights for Freedom in ‘The Mauritanian’ Trailer
Posted in: Movie NewsFilm based on life of Mohamedou Ould Slahi will star Jodie Foster, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tahar Rahim
The Dance Floor Is Always at the Center of Steve McQueen’s ‘Lovers Rock’
Posted in: Movie ReviewsThe second chapter of the five-film Small Axe, in which Steve McQueen attempts to excavate glimpses of black British life from the Sixties through the Eighties, is rooted in reggae
‘Zappa’ Review: A Modernist Mozart Who Happened to Be a Rock Star
Posted in: Movie ReviewsAn exhaustive new documentary on Frank Zappa offers up a portrait of an artist as a walking contradiction
David Prowse, Darth Vader Actor in ‘Star Wars,’ Dead at 85
Posted in: Movie NewsHulking actor donned iconic costume in original Star Wars trilogy
‘Stardust’ Review: Rock & Roll Biopic Suicide
Posted in: Movie ReviewsA what-if look at David Bowie’s brief tour of America at a pivotal, pre-Ziggy point in his career is a textbook case of how not to make a rock movie
Viola Davis Goes BIG and BOLD in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’
Posted in: Movie ReviewsGeorge C. Wolfe’s screen adaption of the seminal August Wilson play also stars a stunning Chadwick Boseman, in his final film role, as ambitious horn player Levee
Why the Band’s ‘The Last Waltz’ Is the Greatest Concert Movie of All Time
Posted in: Movie NewsHow Martin Scorsese’s film of group’s legendary farewell show changed the way live music felt onscreen
