The 2019 Golden Cages: Best Score
Another year of cinema has passed, which means it’s time for our second annual Golden Cages awards, the only end-of-the-year awards program featuring everyone’s ...
Tag: music
Timothée Chalamet is lacing up his Bob Dylan boots
On a Sunday afternoon in 1965, music lovers enjoying the Newport Folk Festival awaited a solo performance from Bob Dylan, not knowing his ...
Features
Here are all the Star Wars musical themes that may appear in John Williams’ Rise of Skywalker score
Whatever your feelings may be about the original trilogy, the prequel trilogy, or the new trilogy, one element of Star Wars has remained ...
Austin Butler cast as Elvis in King of Rock’s biopic
I have decided that my niche for Flixist will be complaining about they don’t make musicals like they used to these days. I ...
Watch people say a whole lot of nothing about Tom Hooper’s Cats
Okay, this joke has gone on long enough. I’ve been incredibly skeptical of Tom Hooper’s latest movie musical, Cats, since I first heard ...
Halle Bailey (not Berry) to become the inferior little mermaid, and that’s not fair
I think I may have finally figured out why every live-action Disney reboot has a been a disappointment. Despite some strong efforts, genuinely ...
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No way Ansel Elgort and his Converse compete with the original West Side Story
Flixist readers, you are in for an absolute treat (re: tragedy) because today I get to write a little history lesson. The first ...
Carrie Brownstein and St. Vincent have co-written a documentary-like concert film
Earlier this year, Sleater-Kinney announced a new album will be out some time in 2019, and it will be produced by St. Vincent. ...
Features
This Is Spinal Tap at 35: The Film Restoration, the Tribeca Film Festival Concert, and the Cult Legacy
Over the weekend, the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival held a special 35th anniversary screening of This Is Spinal Tap. The celebrated mockumentary turned ...
Reviews
SXSW Review: The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash’s impact on music is undeniable. With his stern voice and lyrics reflecting blue-collar life, Cash found a way to blend folk ...
Review: Who Let the Dogs Out
Who Let the Dogs Out is an hour-long documentary, and yet it feels just as powerful as any longer counterpart. Well, powerful isn’t the ...
Reviews
Review: Lords of Chaos
Longtime readers of this site will know I’ve had issues with the biopic genre for a while. I’m a stickler for establishing a ...