As you may know from Dolly Parton’s famous song and children’s book, Coat of Many Colors is the story of Dolly as a young girl and the multicolored coat her mom made for her out of assorted fabric scraps. The family saw it in the same light as Joseph’s Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, but the kids …
Greasy, sweaty, drunk and seeming like he’d probably reek of whiskey, cigarettes and B.O., Bad Blake (Bridges) is a once-lauded country-music star who’s so far down on his luck that hitting bottom might be considered a step up. Barely able to get through a set, he unenthusiastically plays hole-in-the-wall bars and bowling alleys in hole-in-the-wall …
If you are a fan of music, you will totally dig the Hank Garland “fictional” biopic Crazy. It doesn’t matter if you have never heard of him before—I sure hadn’t. It doesn’t matter if you are not a fan of country music, or even jazz. If you appreciate the artistry of musicianship, you’ll find something …
Samantha Mathis plays this young chickie-poo who moves to Nashville to be discovered as a songwriter. Around the time this film was made, I remember there being a big ol’ fuss about Mathis being the “next big thing” (she was also in Pump Up the Volume). She is so bad in this movie that you …
You know, I get more and more respect for Sissy Spacek as an actress, the more of her work I see… she really is so hugely talented. She won an Oscar for her 1980 portrayal of Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner’s Daughter—she even did all of her own singing in the film—and this only a …
Really, the above five statements are about all you need to know to enjoy director Robert Altman’s understated, down-home look at the fictional final broadcast of Garrison Keillor’s real-life titular radio show. The actual broadcast has been going on for more than 30 years, and still originates out of Minnesota, so it’s no surprise that …