If there is one clear thing director Daniel Roher‘s nifty narrative filmmaking debut, Tuner, proves, it is that Leo Woodall is the real deal as the next big leading man in movies. You might know the British actor from Netflix’s limited series, One Day, or as the charming romantic catch for Renee Zellweger in the…
In the opening moments of Edward Berger‘s new film, Ballad Of A Small Player, Colin Farrell, as a con man hiding from his past in Macau, groggily tries to climb out of bed, rubbing his eyes, and simply says, “Oh, f*ck!” It is a great beginning, even if it did remind me of myself after…
EXCLUSIVE: In between the albums Born To Run and Born In The USA that made him the world’s biggest rock star, Bruce Springsteen took a radical detour, channeling the crippling alienation and crushing depression he was feeling into the seminal album Nebraska. Accomplished in a bedroom with orange shag carpet and with a crude recording…
Poetry courtesy of The Boss and The Bard is filling the mountain air at the Telluride Film Festival. Bruce Springsteen’s lyrics can be as potent as William Shakespeare’s verse. When Jeremy Allen White performs ‘Born In the USA’ during Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, the audacity of it sends a charge of electricity right through you. And listen:…
It’s always interesting seeing movies explore the creative process, such as what Steven Spielberg did recently in The Fabelmans, or larger-scale enterprises like the Oscar-winning Amadeus. But Mozart wasn’t around to give his OK to that particular film. Bruce Springsteen, however, after turning down numerous past attempts and offers, is around to pass judgment on…