A Complete Unknown

A Complete Unknown

The early years of the career of Bob Dylan are recreated in A Complete Unknown. In 1961, enigmatic folk singer Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet) travels to New York to visit his hero Woody Guthrie (Scoot McNairy), who’s hospitalized with a degenerative illness. It is at the hospital where Bob meets Peter Seeger (Edward Norton), who…

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The Long Night

A woman searching for her parents gets more than she bargained for in The Long Night. Having grown up in foster care with no idea where she’s come from, Grace (Scout Taylor-Compton) gets a lead about where she can find her birth parents. Grace heads off with her boyfriend Jack (Nolan Gerard Funk) to an…

Trouble

Trouble

A filmmaker seeks to reconnect with her estranged Northern Irish father in Trouble. Mariah Garnett travels to Vienna to meet her father David, who she hasn’t seen since she was two years old. Growing up in Belfast at the height of The Troubles, David was the subject of a 1971 BBC news story, solely for…

Neil Young Journeys

Neil Young Journeys

Neil Young Journeys is the third Neil Young concert film directed by Jonathan Demme, which follows 2006’s Neil Young: Heart of Gold and 2009’s Neil Young Truck Show. The bulk of the film consists of footage from a May 2011 concert at Massey Hall in Toronto.  While some of Young’s hits are featured, the bulk of the…

Unknown

Unknown

I have been hearing a lot of comparisons between this film and Liam Neeson‘s surprise 2008 hit Taken.  However, while they are both films that feature Neeson in a genre he is not usually known for, they are two different types of film. While the term is probably overused, the best description of Unknown would be…