‘Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine

HollywoodandFine.com There were a handful of towering figures in social-justice movements of the 20th century – people who spearheaded a liberation movement in the name of a principle, at great cost to themselves. Gandhi comes to mind, along with Martin Luther King Jr. But my list would be topped by …

‘Django Unchained,’ ‘ZD30’: What exactly are we arguing about?

HollywoodandFine.com When I was in college, I once interviewed the late Rupert Crosse, an African-American actor who got an Oscar nomination for a 1969 film called “The Reivers,” whose star was Steve McQueen. If I’d known then that I would, 40 years later, write a book about John Cassavetes (in …

‘Beware of Mr. Baker,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine

HollywoodandFine.com With baby boomers heading into retirement, there’s been a bull market on biographies and documentaries about baby-boomer rock-star heroes. There’s a sense of summing up, of valedictory in the recent pile-up of books and movies by and about Neil Young, David Geffin, the Rolling Stones, Pete Townsend and Rod …

‘Searching for Sugar Man,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine

HollywoodandFine.com The strangeness of truth compared to the limits of the human imagination gets a crystalline demonstration in Malik Bendjelloul’s “Searching for Sugar Man,” an award-winner at Sundance that lives up to the hype, opening in limited release Friday (7/27/12). If you haven’t heard the hype – or if you …

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