CFNY: THE SPIRIT OF RADIO TVO JANUARY 6, 2026 Innovative, groundbreaking, revolutionary. These words at one point back in 1977 were ideal descriptors for a radio station at 102.1hz on the FM dial. The station broadcast from a “tiny yellow house” [...]
NASH THE SLASH RISES AGAIN! SIDE THREE MEDIA NOVEMBER 21, 2025 The new documentary from Side Three Media, Nash the Slash Rises Again!, begins with an appropriately dramatic sequence of the artist dressing and preparing for a show, while his [...]
THE SESSION MAN: NICKY HOPKINS ARCTIC FOREST PRODUCTIONS/TSM FILMS NOVEMBER 21, 2025 (ORIGINALLY POSTED ON NOVEMBER 5, 2024) The film The Session Man: Nicky Hopkins premiered in North America last November and now it’s the UK’s turn [...]
SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE 20th CENTURY STUDIOS OCTOBER 24, 2025 There’s something very appealing about the core philosophies that are guiding the narrative beats and character expressions of Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me From [...]
OZZY: NO ESCAPE FROM NOW ECHO VELVET/MTV OCTOBER 7, 2025 Ozzy: No Escape From Now is not an easy documentary to watch. It documents, in painful honesty, Ozzy’s last days. From his traumatic fall in 2019 up to his farewell show, this documentary, [...]
STANS SHADY FILMS AUGUST 26, 2025 A phenomenal exploration into what makes us tick as music fanatics. This documentary peels back the layers of what often feels like an emotional, honest, and sometimes unhealthy relationship of the ‘Stans’ [...]
IT’S NEVER OVER, JEFF BUCKLEY MAGNOLIA PICTURES AUGUST 8, 2025 “He would be deified by his death, and I would be trivialized…by the work he did and the rabid expectation for me to live or die by it.” ~Jeff Buckley It was probably [...]
HUNG UP ON A DREAM: THE ZOMBIES DOCUMENTARY UTOPIA MEDIA/THE RANCH The Zombies were part of the first British Invasion, spearheaded by The Beatles. They weren’t from Liverpool, but rather St Albans in the U.K. The original lineup featuring Rod [...]
EVERY TIME YOU LOSE YOUR MIND: A FILM ABOUT FAILURE FAILURE FILMS INC. (DIRECTED BY KEN ANDREWS) JUNE 27, 2025 Good rock ‘n’ roll documentaries are interesting creatures. The extremely good ones should appeal to viewers who are not necessarily [...]
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE – ALIVE IN THE CATACOMBS (THEATRICAL SCREENING @ THE ROYAL CINEMA, TORONTO) MATADOR RECORDS JUNE 3, 2025 Nearly two decades ago, upon first visiting The Paris Catacombs, Josh Homme had dreamed of performing within [...]
WITHIN TEMPTATION: THE INVISIBLE FORCE WILFUL PUBLICITY MAY 6, 2025 It is movie streaming day! Is that a thing? If not, it should be. Go ahead, grab the popcorn and a glass of wine because the docufilm Within Temptation: The Invisible Force [...]
WEIRDO: THE STORY OF FIVE EIGHT TRANSOM FILMS SEPTEMBER 28, 2024 Weirdo: The Story Of Five Eight offers a raw and genuine look at how music is a lifeline for many. The narrative is strikingly honest to the point of being almost heartbreaking, [...]
ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO MERCURY STUDIOS/MAGNOLIA PICTURES/PLAN B/KM FILMS APRIL 11, 2025 Kevin MacDonald and Sam Rice-Edwards have teamed up for an interesting and entertaining look at John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s One To One benefit concert, [...]
IMAGINE DRAGONS: LIVE FROM THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL (WITH THE LA FILM ORCHESTRA) TRAFALGAR RELEASING MARCH 26 & 29, 2025 Playing alongside the LA Film Orchestra, something special was ignited as fan favourites were reimagined. One can only [...]
TOM PETTY: HEARTBREAKERS BEACH PARTY PETTY LEGACY LLC/MTV ENTERTAINMENT STUDIOS MARCH 11, 2025 In 1983, Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous, Singles, Pearl Jam Twenty) made his directorial debut with Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party. The film aired [...]
40 WATTS FROM NOWHERE SUSAN CARPENTER/SLAMDANCE FESTIVAL FEBRUARY 23, 2025 What do you do with a bunch of burning ambition, a love for music, and a boredom with early 90’s commercial radio? For most people, the obvious answer wouldn’t be ‘start [...]
GLEN MATLOCK – I WAS A TEENAGE SEX PISTOL VMI WORLDWIDE FEBRUARY 10, 2025 (US) I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol advertises itself as Glen Matlock’s tale of the rise of the Sex Pistols, and it delivers on that front from the off. Every step of [...]
24 HOURS OF ENO FILM FIRST JANUARY 24, 2025 Brian Eno is not a conventional artist. He may have produced some of the biggest albums and singles over the past 40 years, but he is anything but conventional. Eno is a documentary of sorts of the [...]
DARK SANCTUARY: THE STORY OF THE CHURCH SPECTOGRAPH FILMS JANUARY 21, 2025 To paraphrase the words of club owner Don Nedler, Dark Sanctuary: The Story Of The Church gives us a glimpse into the “mystique, magic, decadence, debauchery, and [...]
A COMPLETE UNKNOWN SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES DECEMBER 25, 2024 How do you make a movie about a living legend with so many layers to their persona? You get writer/director James Mangold and Timothée Chalamet, whose transformation of Bob Dylan is a [...]
NÖTHIN’ BUT A GOOD TIME: THE UNCENSORED STORY OF ’80S HAIR METAL MTV ENTERTAINMENT STUDIOS SEPTEMBER 17, 2024 The resurgence of 1980s hair metal has reached new heights, making it the perfect time for the release of NÖTHIN’ BUT [...]
BOOM – A FILM ABOUT THE SONICS SCRATCH VINYL FILMS IN THEATRES SEPTEMBER 13, 2024 After a number of successful festival screenings, the producers of “BOOM: A Film About The Sonics” are releasing the film to theatres in select cities. The [...]
THE TRAGICALLY HIP: NO DRESS REHEARSAL AMAZON STUDIOS SEPTEMBER 5, 2024 I believe that passion is something everyone possesses, but only those who embrace it can truly revel in it. And, when one has a passion that they strongly pursue, others [...]
STEVIE VAN ZANDT: DISCIPLE HBO JUNE 22, 2024 When you’re best known for being part of a cultural phenomenon like the E Street Band, it can be hard to get your individual story told. Disciple sets out to redress that balance by focussing on [...]
