A long time ago, the words sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll carried a hint of danger. The lifestyle did, too, but I’m talking about the phrase. It used to sound cool (back around the time the word “cool” sounded cool). But sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll has long since passed into the realm of vintage American catch-phrase banality, like “How’s that workin’ out for you?” And “The Dirt,” the new Netflix rock biopic about the sordid, squalid saga of Mötley Crüe, the royal hair-metal sleaze gods of the ’80s and ’90s, is a movie that reflects the new harmless status of that phrase.
“The Dirt” boils over with sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll, whether it’s Vince Neil (Daniel Webber), the snaky leader singer of Mötley Crüe, acting like a horny jackrabbit as he enjoys a backstage boink with every woman who comes near him,...
“The Dirt” boils over with sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll, whether it’s Vince Neil (Daniel Webber), the snaky leader singer of Mötley Crüe, acting like a horny jackrabbit as he enjoys a backstage boink with every woman who comes near him,...
- 3/23/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Universal
Musicians are ripe fruit for biopics, matched only by political figures and sports stars, and hardly a month seems to pass without the emergence of yet another trailer promising the “incredible journey” that music’s biggest stars went on to get to where they are today.
The problem is, with such a wealth of biopics out there in cinemas and on television, it’s inevitable that some are going to make for woeful viewing. For every Oscar-worthy retelling of the fascinating life story of one of music’s great icons, there’s a hundred damp squib narratives that fail to grasp what made their central figures such legends in the first place.
It’s time to weed out the triumphs from the failures; the platinum discs from the cheesy chart flops; the Walk The Line masterpieces from the Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story tragedies.
These 10 biopics have been chosen...
Musicians are ripe fruit for biopics, matched only by political figures and sports stars, and hardly a month seems to pass without the emergence of yet another trailer promising the “incredible journey” that music’s biggest stars went on to get to where they are today.
The problem is, with such a wealth of biopics out there in cinemas and on television, it’s inevitable that some are going to make for woeful viewing. For every Oscar-worthy retelling of the fascinating life story of one of music’s great icons, there’s a hundred damp squib narratives that fail to grasp what made their central figures such legends in the first place.
It’s time to weed out the triumphs from the failures; the platinum discs from the cheesy chart flops; the Walk The Line masterpieces from the Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story tragedies.
These 10 biopics have been chosen...
- 8/24/2015
- by Michael Waugh
- Obsessed with Film
Sometimes a poster in an online database seems like the last remnant of a lost film. Robert Mandel’s 1983 Independence Day (an “interesting but unfocused little picture” according to Leonard Maltin) is not on DVD, although there are a couple of used VHS tapes knocking about on Amazon, and I had never heard of it before I started idly looking for interesting foreign variations on the Roland Emmerich blockbuster in honor of the 4th of July. Described as a “romantic drama about a small-town photographer, yearning for the big city, who falls in love with a racing car enthusiast, whose sister is a battered wife” the film stars Kathleen Quinlan, David Keith, and, not credited on the poster, but the most praised aspect of the film, a pre-Hannah and her Sisters Dianne Wiest. Mandel went on to direct mostly for TV (including The X-Files pilot, one episode of Lost,...
- 7/3/2010
- MUBI
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