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Becoming Led Zeppelin 2025
I saw a post on the Internet recently that stated, ‘it’s 2025 and I’m still listening to Led Zeppelin’. Go and see this movie, and you might realise why someone would post that.
The film focuses on how the band formed, with great footage of early live performances that looked like it was filmed this year, not over 50 years ago; I think my local cinema turned the volume up to 11 for this movie as the sound of the…
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A Complete Unknown 2024
I did not know that Bob Dylan was that cool, and after watching this, I wish I was young and living in New York in the early 1960s. The movie certainly creates the atmosphere of change in that decade, symbolised here by the desire of young musicians like Bob Dylan to mix new genres of music with the traditional music they grew up with; music that they still loved to play, but that some at the time thought should not…
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Nosferatu 2024
Visually very impressive and the sound added the right atmosphere. The Count Orlok character was brilliantly worked out for look and voice. The relationship with Ellen was not what I was expecting; I wonder if that comes from the Bram Stoker book? Nice to see the vampire’s obsession as more than a swooning damsel, again, I must read Dracula. The professor’s line about Isaac Newton is, I’m sure unintentionally, hilarious.
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Joker: Folie à Deux 2024
It’s a musical, and a courtroom drama, and a romance to examine the attraction and the danger of living in a fantasy world in which your idols don’t screw up. The musical numbers work once you go with it. Good acting from everyone. The prison scenes effectively convey the bleakness.
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