HollywoodandFine.com Based on a true story, “Gimme Shelter” is one of those films that means well: It’s earnest, filled with the spirit of forgiveness – indeed, it wouldn’t seem out of place on the Lifetime network. But this story about an abused, homeless and unwed pregnant teen – played with …
HollywoodandFine.com Amir Bar-Lev and Charlie Lightening’s new film, “12-12-12” would be worth seeing if only for the moment where James Dolan loses his temper because of a technical glitch. Any New York Knicks fan can offer a laundry list of Dolan’s contumelies as the team’s owner. He’s one of those …
HollywoodandFine.com Either the title of the documentary “Muscle Shoals” resonates with you – in which case it resonates hard – or you have no idea what it means. But you should – or you should find out by watching the movie, one of the year’s most entertaining and enriching nonfiction …
HollywoodandFine.com “Extraordinary how potent cheap music is,” Noel Coward wrote in his play, “Private Lives.” It certainly makes a difference in Paul Andrew Williams’ “Unfinished Song,” a so-so old-age dramedy that mostly avoids easy laughs but isn’t afraid to use sentimentality to pound its point home. The film is part …
HollywoodandFine.com It’s hard to imagine another documentary this year that will be as uplifting, entertaining and moving as Morgan Neville’s “20 Feet From Stardom.” A sensation at this year’s Sundance festival, “20 Feet” looks at a group of people who normally don’t feel the spotlight’s heat – the backup singer. …
HollywoodandFine.com David Chase’s “Not Fade Away” is one of my favorite films of 2012, a heartfelt but clear-eyed look at what it’s like to be a teen-ager who falls in love with rock’n’roll. More accurately, it examines what it felt like to be a teen in 1963, when the Beatles …