For this week’s Cinemavino, Sean and I continue our look at Peter Jackson’s mammoth documentary, The Beatles: Get Back. Jackson did an outstanding job of ironing 160 hours of raw footage into three coherent acts. Not surprisingly, part II takes the Beatles into some of their darkest depths, as they try to bring George Harrison back into…
Todd Wofford
This film is better than its predecessor, but making anything worse than Venom would’ve been a challenge that probably requires a deal with Satan.
"S unrise doesn't last all morning," a wise man once sang to us. "A cloudburst doesn't last all day." At their best and brightest, the Beatles found a way to embody both natural phenomena: For eight glorious years, four working-class boys from Liverpool painted our horizon with a masterpiece of a million colors. At the…
I t's ironic that Red Notice made history by using drones for cinematography, because I think those same robots had a hand in writing the screenplay. Every moment of this ridiculously expensive, wholly bloodless enterprise feels that hollow and mechanical. I picture several cyborgs sitting at keyboards, clacking away furiously and speaking in their nasally, monotonous robot…
The Beatles are my all-time favorite band, and I’ve spent my life as a walking encyclopedia of their music and history. Like millions of fans, their music has changed my life. Long story short: This isn’t just another podcast for me.
I’ve been pumped for Peter Jackson’s documentary since I saw his work on They Shall…
Welcome to a very special episode of Cinemavino! We’re all huge Ghostbusters fans, so we were eager to take a look at the latest sequel, Afterlife. Everybody enjoyed it, to varying degrees. In my personal opinion, it’s probably the best Part III they could’ve possibly put together.
If you’d like to read my full, written review of The Last Waltz,…
Thanksgiving is already here, and we’ve found the perfect movie for the occasion. Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz is often held as the greatest rock documentary every made, and it’s easy to see why: The Band’s farewell concert bottles everything cool, everything tragic, and everything beautiful about being a rock star, all in one magnificent film.…
The Last Waltz serves as the glorious, glowing sunset for rock's greatest era. Orange, yellow, and red lights bathe the musicians, who are mostly dressed in browns and blues. Deep shadows cut their weary faces. It's as if everyone who played at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom knew this gig would serve as…
This review will represent a savage battle fought between my mind and heart. After all, the former is completely aware that Ghostbusters: Afterlife is a blatant attempt to cash in on the most lucrative currency in all of pop culture: Nostalgia. Meanwhile, my inner goob is a total sucker for proton packs,…
For this week’s Cinemavino, it’s one of the more decorated movies we’ve covered in a good long while: Another Round won the Academy Award for Best International Feature, and Thomas Vinterburg was nominated for Best Director. After a steady stream of Halloween flicks, this art house flick was a nice palate cleanser.
The crux of the…
