Sentences with word «rockumentary»

Social - justice docs, both the earnest and the gonzo kind, are on the menu, with a serving of rockumentaries on the side.

The Story of Anvil (Unrated) Rockumentary recounts the rise of Anvil, the legendary, Canadian heavy metal band founded by teenagers Robb Reiner and Steve «Lips» Kudlow in 1974 and still cranking out power chords after 35 years together.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Reverential Rockumentary Revisits Career of Late Rock Icon Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993) is best remembered as the front man and lead guitarist of the Mothers of Invention, the avant - garde rock band that started developing a dedicated cult following in 1966 with the release of its debut album, «Freak Out!»

The best of the bunch, however, is a faux rockumentary on Munchausen by Proxy (including all five musical performances) and an inside look at what happens when Carrey drinks a Red Bull.

It sounds like John Presnall is right about that documentary by Crowe on Pearl Jam, but I now have a slight interest in it, because the apparently poor choice of rockumentary material might indicate....

In 1984, he showed up as a regular on the TV police adventure series Blue Thunder, and was spotlighted in the parody rockumentary film This is Spinal Tap; two years later he was signed as a regular on NBC's Saturday Night Live.

Scenes where Cave performs or records are more in line with a traditional rockumentary, and are the easiest to swallow.

Rob Reiner walks that fine line in his hilarious mockumentary rockumentary, ostensibly the portrait of a has - been metal band resurrected from a well - deserved obscurity for a disastrous comeback tour.

Eat That Question is a reverential rockumentary directed by Germany's Thorsten Schutte.

Sound City (Unrated) Retro rockumentary, directed by Foo Fighters» founder and front man Dave Grohl, about Sound City, the fabled, L.A. music studio where everyone from Neil Young to Fleetwood Mac to Tom Petty to Johnny Cash to Charles Manson have recorded albums.

The DVD commentary extends the put - on, with Nigel (Guest), Derek (Shearer) and David (McKean) cracking wise on the film as if it were a real rockumentary.

The director of the comically tragic Anvil Rockumentary (and baby - daddy to Geri Halliwell), Sacha Gervasi is not the obvious choice as Hitchcock's director but he certainly does a decent job.

It is an absorbing rockumentary that invites you into the myth of Janis Joplin.

Andrew Dominick's One More Time With Feeling is an eloquently simplistic rockumentary shot in 3D and black and white.

Until the Light Takes Us (Unrated) Rockumentary investigating the proponents of Norwegian black metal, an occult subculture associated not only with a bizarre brand of music but with murder and arson.

Breaking a Monster (Unrated) Rockumentary recounting the rise in 2007 of Unlocking the Truth, a heavy metal trio of 13 year - old, African - American boys from Brooklyn: Malcolm Brickhouse, Jarad Dawkins and Alec Atkins.

And I wanted to make a sort of rockumentary.

Curtis's movie is loosely based on the historical truths of the time, but it isn't meant as a documentary, a rockumentary, or even a docucomedy.

The documentary - first distributor improved the quality of its output in 2014 compared to the prior year, and cracked the top 10 in our rankings despite having just one «great» film: the art doc (or is it a «rockumentary»?)

ROB REINER»S debut as a feature film director with the mock «rockumentary» This Is Spinal Tap was as invigorating as his second film, The Sure Thing, is depressing: not since Michael Cimino followed The Deer Hunter with Heaven's Gate has there been such a dramatic comedown.

In fact, the movie isn't really a musical at all (save for the end medley / production number), instead going for more of a rockumentary feel that doesn't translate very well to the screen.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the rockumentary had settled into precisely the form Christopher Guest and co. ridiculed so successfully in This Is Spinal Tap, which came out just a few months before Stop Making Sense.

When You're Strange (R for sexuality, nudity, profanity and drug references) Johnny Depp narrates this rockumentary recounting the meteoric rise and just as fast fall of The Doors, a talented quartet whose premature demise was hastened by the untimely death of its charismatic lead singer, Jim Morrison.

, and a Political - Romantic - Comedy - Rockumentary (Kurt's new favourite «genre» (in big air - quotes), consisting of only one indie Japanese film!)

This rockumentary is the funniest, most daringly exposed profile of a music group ever captured on film, fictional or otherwise.

The film that invented the «rockumentary» has now outlasted most of the bands it mocked.

At times feeling like a rockumentary, it's almost like you are there along with the band on the road.

In film, we speak with the directors of 20,000 Days on Earth, which redefines the rockumentary and follows the legendary musician Nick Cave.