R&B, ROCK & GOSPEL legend Little Richard left us this year. You can spend some time listening to him or even looking at him on film. There’s a wonderful scene in Get On Up, director Tate Taylor’s 2014 biopic of James Brown, as played by Chadwick Boseman, when Brown crosses the orbit of this live wire, Little Richard, somewhere down South.
Tribeca continues to be this blast of energy radiating from the downtown media hub on Varick Street, including the Regal multiplex in Battery Park through the SVA Theatre on W. 23rd up through some events at the Beacon on the UWS.
Rolling Thunder Revue’s subtitle is A Bob Dylan Story, told by Scorsese with a little help from his friends at Netflix, which helped Scorsese and collaborators find restore to vibrancy footage of Dylan’s 1975 tour of small venues in mostly small towns across America beginning at Plymouth Rock.
DeNiro, Pesci, Keitel, Pacino. Old home week for the Mob in Martin Scorsese's much awaited The Irishman
No more Mr. Nice Guys with Uncut Gems, with nice-guy specialist and generational touchstone, Adam Sandler, in a serious turn as a crazy Jewish upstairs jeweler on 47th Street in the Diamond district at the center of the Safdie’s New York, which you won’t see on any tour bus.
Ever since The Blair Witch Project in 1999, the indie art-house horror film has been making a steady comeback. Harlan Jacobson reviews US by Jordan Peele.
