A Complete Unknown: Review. By Nick Boyd. “A Complete Unknown,” a four-year look into Bob Dylan, is a revealing portrait of a musician who marched to the beat of a different drum. Timothée Chalamet plays and sings as Dylan in a powerfully strong performance, while Edward Norton plays Dylan’s friend, and fellow folk musician Pete Seeger, also in a standout performance. The two of them meet in 1961 when a young Dylan from Minnesota is visiting his idol Woody Guthrie (Scoot McNairy) in a hospital. (Guthrie’s reason for the hospitalization was not explained in the film.) Seeger and his wife […]
We Want The Funk: Review. By Joe Muldoon. “What is funk? …When you hear it, you know what it is, and perhaps more importantly, you know it when you feel it.” – Dr Todd Boyd. Directors Stanley Nelson and Nicole London’s doc is a groovy journey through the history of funk, from its postwar origins, to its lofty heights with James Brown, and its evolution and influence upon today’s music. Locating the genre within the sociopolitical context of 20th-century Black America, we see funk’s growth in the face of the Jim Crow era and its use as an act of […]
The Electric State: The BRWC Review. By Josiah Teal. The Electric State has everything a studio thinks would make a hit. The film features the Russo Brothers directing and once again collaborating with their MCU writing partners from the Captain America films and the conclusion to the Infinity Saga. The cast list boasts bankable stars in the leads with Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt and a plethora of co-stars such as Woody Harrelson, Stanley Tucci, Ke Huy Quan, and Giancarlo Esposito. And the film has a built-in-audience from the 2018 novel of the same name, is presented by Netflix, […]