• February 10, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Music, Romance

According to the extras on A Star Is Born (the Deluxe Edition), by the time this film was made in 1954, Judy Garland had already gone through two divorces,...

• December 5, 2012
• At Home, Comedy, Music

I’m sure highbrow critics will give this film withering reviews simply because it is such a blatant crowd-pleaser. With song, dance, corn pone one-liners, a bit of romance, a...

• November 18, 2012
• At Home, Drama, Music

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...

• September 28, 2012
• At Home, Comedy, Music

A funny, fabulous, feel-good romp right from the get-go, Pitch Perfect takes the standard competition-comedy formula and applies to the world of collegiate a cappella groups. At the center...

• September 25, 2012
• At Home, Drama, Music

Set in Detroit in the 1960s, the film purportedly centers on its titular songstress (Sparks), the youngest of three sisters who start to ascend the musical ranks in the...

• April 19, 2009
• At Home, Comedy, Family, Music

Now that I’ve seen Hannah Montana: The Movie, I can actually answer that pesky question that haunts many people over the age of 13: What up with this Hannah...

• June 25, 2006
• At Home, Documentary, Music

From what I learned from the film, Gram Parsons was a handsome and charming trust-fund baby (from an admittedly fucked-up family), who was lucky enough to pursue music full...

• June 12, 2006
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Music

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...

• May 21, 2003
• At Home, Comedy

A filmmaker named “Dude” Schmitz (Mark Borchardt, of American Movie) and his crew (yep, including Mark’s buddy Mike Schank) get thrown out of a Britney Spears concert for asking...

• May 17, 2003
• At Home, Comedy

The team that brought us the dog-show farce Best in Show and the small-town-puts-on-a-musical spoof Waiting for Guffman now turn their mockumentary eye on folk music. Not just folk...

• May 2, 2001
• At Home, Drama, Music

Call me a bitter person, but I really don’t like singing children. No, let me rephrase that… it’s a bit unfair. I don’t like singing children who have the...

• June 21, 2000
• At Home, Drama

Let’s just say one thing right off: Bollywood this ain’t! After enjoying the delightful Straight From the Heart song-and-dance flick at SIFF last year, we rushed to pick an...