There already have been several documentaries about the life of Jean-Michel Basquiat who is considered to be one of the greatest artists of the 20th Century, but Sara Driver’s new one just focuses purely on his late teenage years. There is no discussion on his childhood in Brooklyn or how he ended up in SoHo the first place, as … Continue reading
Richard and Robert Sherman are two remarkable songwriters who so excelled at writing smash hit songs for family musical that they became the only in-house composers that the Walt Disney Studios ever hired. They were responsible for all the sugary hits in classic children movies such as ‘Mary Poppins’, ‘The Jungle Book’, ‘The Parent Trap’, … Continue reading
Russell Brand is not an easy person to like. The 40-year-old British comic and recovering drug addict and a former Mr Katy Perry is an obnoxious, loud-mouth, narcissistic, vain, self-serving, hedonistic irritating man. He is however side-splittingly funny when he is on stage performing and that is the saving grace of both Brand himself and … Continue reading
In 2007 director Michael Mayer won his Tony Award for ‘Spring Awakening’ the exhilarating rock musical based on an obscure 19th German play that re-defined Broadway musicals for a new a generation. It was a hard act to follow but Mayer had the inspired idea to develop a new Musical based on the punk group … Continue reading
Over seventy five percent of the pupils in I.S. 318 are from families that are below the federal poverty level. This public Intermediate School in an un-gentrified part of Williamsberg, NY is struggling with untold budget cuts when this documentary starts being filmed soon after the 2008 recession. Yet what we see right from the … Continue reading