The Beatles: Get Back. Peter Jackson’s Love Letter to the World and the Fabs

Beginning in 2017, director Peter Jackson’s team of filmmakers commenced an odyssey to discover the Holy Grail of pop music.  Reviewing, restoring and upgrading 60 hours of 16mm of film and 150 hours of audio recordings was a Herculean task, in and of itself.  But Jackson and his corps did more than that.   They created … Read more

Go See Yesterday (movie) Today or Tomorrow

The movie critics (or at least, many of them) are wrong about Yesterday, the Richard Curtis-penned movie released in June 2019.   Yes, Yesterday features 15 songs written by The Beatles.   Yes, it is based upon a fantastical premise:  an alt-universe where only one middling musician remembers that the Beatles ever existed.   Yes, it stars a … Read more