If you’ve found most recent music biopics to be snoozefests severely lacking in good old-fashioned melodrama, we bring good news. That is, unless you’re allergic to sequins, luxuriant wigs and the ...
A human interest story in cinematic form, Song Sung Blue is more lukewarm than heartwarming despite its talented cast. Starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson as a married Neil Diamond nostalgia act, ...
It’s easy to be cynical about a heartwarming musical biopic like “Song Sung Blue.” Heck, if anything that cynicism is reasonable — these movies are dime a dozen, overstocked, and going on sale. The ...
"Song Sung Blue," about a Neil Diamond tribute act, hits theaters on Christmas Day. Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson star as Mike and Claire Sardina, who performed together as the Diamond duo Lightning & ...
Running time: 132 minutes. Rated PG-13 (thematic material, some strong language, some sexual material and brief drug use). In theaters Dec. 25. If there’s one slam-dunk choice in “Song Sung Blue,” ...
Set almost entirely in the venerable theatre district eatery, Sardi's, on Manhattan's 44th Street, the film was in fact shot on location in Ireland, and the Sardi's depicted onscreen can't hope to do ...
Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy goes into AA. Boy and reunite at a meet-up that is not exactly a “date.” Lovelorn restaurant attendant offers commentary. People dance on dance floors and on the ...
As an adolescent with basic cable in the pre-streaming era, I often found myself watching snippets of unidentified films on Turner Classic Movies. Only one has stayed with me: the end of what I would ...
Forgetting for the moment any revisionism applied to the The Rolling Stones album Black & Blue (Rolling Stones Records, 1976), the iconic British band was in more than a little disarray when it ...
If Song Sung Blue, which had its world premiere as the closing-night film of AFI Fest, weren’t a true story no one would ever have the nerve to make it. The unlikely triumphs and unspeakable tragedies ...
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20 (UPI) --Blue Moon, in theaters Friday, captures the wit and lyricism of real-life songwriter Lorenz Hart. Unfortunately, some glaring of the film's artistic choices prove too ...