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73 days ago
The granddaughter of Elvis Presley, 36, stunned in a chic strapless black dress as she posed up a storm ahead of the screening.
80 days ago
Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour review – style trumps substance in James Cameron’s 3D oddity ⊕
Eilish and Cameron are mismatched in flashy pop documentary that misses the subtlety of her music
For a long time concert tour films were seen as a cash-in. Ask a music fan for their favorite, and th…
3 months ago
From Michael to Back to Black, authorised music biopics are becoming bland, blatant propaganda. Audiences deserve better | Simran Hans ⊕⊕
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Swerving the child abuse allegations, the new Michael Jackson film is yet another revisionist music movie in a long line. We know what’s in it for their subjects. What about the viewers?
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‘The biggest, baddest, saltiest chick you would ever see’: why no one sang the blues like Big Mama Thornton ⊖
Gay, fearless and utterly unique, Thornton had a hit with Hound Dog before Elvis – but was then fleeced and forgotten. One hundred years after her birth, a new documentary sets the record straight
Wil…
4 months ago
Billy Idol Should Be Dead review – nostalgic docu-tribute to British postpunk’s rebel ○
The self-destructive bad boy, now 70, looks back on his life with a humorous shrug in Jonas Åkerlund’s warmly sympathetic film
Swedish film-maker Jonas Åkerlund has been attracted to the wilder edge …
The unbelievable life of Leo Sayer! The songs, the sex, being swindled – and a spooky phone call from Elvis ⊕⊕
He lit up the 1970s with a string of hits, before falling out of the public eye. But was any man ever more connected? He discusses extraordinary encounters with Muhammad Ali and Keith Moon – and why …
Soul to Soul review – joyous 1971 concert film captures Black American stars’ emotional return to Ghana ⊕⊕
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Restored documentary records a historic independence day show in Accra, with electrifying performances from Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett and more
This exuberant, distinctively high-minded documentary, …
‘I clicked on a button – and everything changed’: how a DNA test turned my life upside-down ⊕
When I found out my father had been adopted, I was curious to know more about his side of the family. Nothing could have prepared me for what I would discover …
Above my grandma’s bed hung a framed bl…
Baz Luhrmann: ‘There’s the image of Elvis and then there’s the man’ ⊖
The singular director has made a second film about the King of Rock, and Roll and this time audiences will get to see a side of him they’ve never seen before
In the spring of 1972, a film crew trailed…
5 months ago
Willie Colón was an explosive energy source who took salsa into the stratosphere ⊕⊕
With his gangster image, Colón ruffled the feathers of the musical establishment, but thrilled millions of fans as he displayed the raw rhythmic possibility of salsa
Willie Colón, who has died in New …