It’s a fascinating, gloriously long documentary, with songs they wrote as teenagers - you wish they’d finished them all, but the bits they do sparkle - and tunes that wound up on Let It Be, Abbey Road and solo albums. Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson turns 60 hours of footage and 150 hours of unheard 50-year-old audio of the Beatles in the studio creating 14 songs (and doing their last public performance) into a spanking-new docuseries with scenes you’ve never seen before. There’s never been a better time to be a Fab Four fan. T.M.A.ĭon’t Miss This: The 21 Best Things Coming to (and Leaving) Netflix in December Kick butt, break rules, and direct your first feature after 50? Maybe Berry could be the next Bond. Go, Berry, for taking your muscular, agile self where Antoine Fuqua, 55, once took Denzel Washington, 66, and for showing audiences the magnitude of your range. When the 6-year-old son Jackie abandoned as an infant suddenly shows up, mute and damaged, it puts her at a crossroads: Can she regain her dignity and find her inner dragon mom? You betcha - and it will all end in one thrilling flyweight title fight, with a little help from Jackie’s gay trainer, Buddhakan (striking Sheila Atim). The fighter’s spectacular flameout in the cage left the Newark, New Jersey, native in a spiral of booze, abuse and bad choices. In a cross between Million Dollar Baby and Raging Bull, she stars as hard-drinking MMA vet Jackie Justice. Halle Berry, 55, doesn’t play nice in her gritty feature directorial debut. Watch it: The Power of the Dog, on Netflix Campion, who shockingly hasn’t made a feature since 2009’s Bright Star, crafts a compelling tale that connects viscerally with the audience and sticks its devastating landing. She triangulates their relationship, moving in with her effete son, Peter (a sensational Kodi Smit-McPhee), and threatening Phil’s fierce frontier facade. His secrets erupt when Phil’s temperate brother George (rock-solid Jesse Plemons) weds the widow Rose Gordon (a finely wrought Kirsten Dunst). Beneath his bullying hide, he has repressed his authentic, vulnerable self. Phil, menacingly played by Benedict Cumberbatch, rangy of build and cunning of eye, is a charismatic and cutting alpha dog. The bachelor Burbank brothers have managed the family ranch for 25 years. Set at the volatile crossroads of horse culture and the horseless carriage in 1925, change is in the air. Who’s the big dog on the Montana prairie? That’s the sly question propelling Jane Campion’s glorious, sweeping and intimate Oscar-bound Western. Watch it: Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road, in limited screenings and on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Google Play, Redbox, Vuduĭon’t Miss This: Beatles Fans, Rejoice: New Documentary and Album Set the 'Get Back' Record Straight “He had an orchestra in his head.” You wish the scenes of Wilson creating were longer, but even the bits are inspiring. “George Martin did for the Beatles, but Brian did it himself,” says Elton. The best scenes are musical: Wilson in the studio in the ’60s and today, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, and Don Was explicating “God Only Knows” and surf music. You feel the pain as he plaintively sings, “Gotta keep those good vibrations,” and thrill to hear him say he plans a rock ’n’ roll covers album. This desultory documentary gives you a sense of his emotional torment, still hearing voices echoing his father’s cruelty. haunts, Rolling Stone’s Jason Fine gently coaxes a few stories out of the reticent genius, some interesting. Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS).Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road, UnratedĪs they tour Brian Wilson’s old L.A. Blige - R&B Jump Off 19 (Mixed by Big Mike) Album Lyrics1.Can't Be Without You2.Can't Hide From Love (feat. I'mma make you want, make you want my love, want to make love, come to me No you can't babe (Imma make you want it). You can't hide from love, (hide from love)
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