Sam Dunn and Marc Ricciardelli deliver an old-school rock doc that should please fans of the band in Triumph: Rock & Roll Machine -- and hopefully attract some new fans along
Alison Klayman revisits Alanis Morisette's groundbreaking album Jagged Little Pill and unpacks the significance and longevity of an album that changed rock.
Penny Lane's Listening to Kenny G playfully debates musical tastes by looking at the career of the iconic jazz man and the fine line between good sax and bad sax.
In The Last Man Standing: Suge Knight and the Murders of Biggie & Tupac, Nick Broomfield returns to a case that continues to haunt him and makes new allegations against Knight and
There are more than a few dramatic directors who also excel at making non-fiction films about music. Martin Scorsese is an obvious example, as is Jonathan Demme with his many collaborations with
Fanumentaries are on the rise. These docs are generally lo-fi crowd-funded affairs that let fans share their passions with the world. The danger with these kind of fan-service documentaries, however, is that
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (USA, 117 min.) Dir. Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson While celebrity director Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and his producers have made much about
“It usually started with: ‘you were a slave,’ when I was growing up, and that’s just not the case,” director Maya Annik Bedward tells me. We’re discussing what led the Jamaican French-Canadian
Sahtu Dene musician Jay Gilday sits on a rooftop in Yellowknife, with his acoustic guitar and a microphone aligned with the treetops. Shot on a propped-up iPhone 12, this is the opening
Edgar Wright deserves kudos for making his first documentary feature about Sparks, a band that is simultaneously quirky and anonymous, capable of performing in genres ranging from bubblegum to glam and from