• May 31, 2019
• At Home, Drama, Music

This film chronicles a flamboyant, iconic singer from his meteoric rise to superstardom in the 1970s, to hitting rock bottom from sex and drugs and rock and roll, to...

• April 10, 2019
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

Set in 1962, the film tracks the literal and figurative real-life journey of two unlikely traveling companions: hulking NYC club bouncer Tony “Lip” Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen) and Don “Doc”...

• February 17, 2019
• At Home, Drama, Music, Romance

I don’t really know why, but when the trailer for A Star is Born came out, I simply couldn’t look away. The trailer opens with the camera panning over...

• February 16, 2019
• At Home, Drama, Music

Rami Malek, sporting one helluva set of prosthetic dentures and an array of questionable wigs, stars as Mercury, who went from Heathrow baggage handler to rock god over the...

• October 29, 2016
• At Home, Documentary, Music

I have a love/hate relationship with Oasis. I adored their catchy pop-rock sensibilities in the 90s, especially the masterpiece that is “Wonderwall”. But then I saw them in concert,...

• July 13, 2016
• At Home, Drama, Music, Television

In name, Vinyl certainly has rock n’ roll pedigree written all over it. Mick Jagger is a producer (with his sneering son James as one of the stars), and...

• October 17, 2015
• At Home, Drama, Music, Television

At its most basic level, the deliciously entertaining family soap Empire is King Lear with a modern hip-hop/R&B soundtrack. This King is Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard) a modern hip-hop...

• June 6, 2015
• At Home, Drama, Music, Television

A British jazz band is discovered in a small club by a music journalist, and is offered the lucky break of becoming the house band at a top notch...

• May 15, 2015
• At Home, Documentary, Music

My very first record, given to me by my cousins when I was five, was John Denver’s Greatest Hits. Like a lot of massively popular music, his songs went...

• January 6, 2015
• At Home, Drama, Music

Unfolding in a not-entirely-successful, sort-of-confusing, non-linear fashion crafted by director Tate Taylor (The Help), Get On Up tracks Brown’s rise to fame, from his turbulent childhood and abandonment by...

• July 18, 2014
• At Home, Documentary, Music

After tackling the songs of the Fifties and Sixties, there was nothing left for Barry Manilow to do but take on the Seventies. He couldn’t represent the decade’s chart-toppers...

• February 8, 2014
• At Home, Comedy, Music

Like many people, I went through my own Beatlemania, albeit a generation or two too late, when I was 16. I suddenly gained a new appreciation of my mom’s...