No Sour Notes: Top Ten Fictional Bands in the Movies
The thought of snapping your fingers to the tunes of …
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Frank
“Frank” is a delightful finger-snapping oddball set to music and creative mayhem
Frank Written by Jon Ronson and Peter Straughan Directed by …
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Uncomfortable truths pierce through the mask of ‘Frank’
Frank steers away from almost-Almost Famous territory and into something familiar to anyone who’s seen The Devil and Daniel Johnston; director Abrahamson carries his deft balancing of tonal shifts from his 2012 film What Richard Did over to this effort.
Kenny’s Five Best and Worst Films of Fantasia 2014
Covering Fantasia for the first time was a hectic, enjoyable …
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Fantasia 2014: Frank is this year’s most heartwarming film about a gigantic head
Frank follows a post-internet age Billy Liar and asks, “What if he did follow his dream through, but his idol was a lunatic?” Jon (Domnhall Gleeson), a young middling English songwriter, gets invited to play keyboard for the aforementioned Frank (Michael Fassbender). Frank wears a giant fake head made of papier-mâché and refuses to take it off. Soon, Jon is invited to spend a year in Ireland with the band as they record their painstakingly overblown album, all the while secretly filming it and posting clips to YouTube.
SXSW 2014 Wrap Up: World premieres, directorial debuts, and more!
South by Southwest 2014 felt even larger this year with …
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SXSW 2014: ‘Frank’ takes an odd ball look at the depths of bohemia
Frank Directed by Lenny Abrahamson Written by Jon Ronson and …
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