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Michael Jackson was rehearsing for a 50-night stand at London's 02 Arena when he suddenly died in the summer of 2009. Luckily, the shows extensive rehearsals were filmed and turned into this fascinating documentary. It stunned many fans by proving that Jackson was actually in good voice and physical shape just days before his death. The Jackson estate will surely be flooding the market with product for years to come, but it's unlikely that anything will be nearly this engrossing.
When guitarist D. Boon died in a van accident in 1985 his group The Minutemen weren't widely known outside of the punk community, but in the past 25 years they've become a touchstone for an entire generation of bands. This 2005 documentary tells the story of their brief career, featuring interviews with surviving members George Hurley and Mike Watt alongside fans Flea, Henry Rollins, Thurston Moore and many more.
In 1987, about a year before Roy Orbison died, a stellar line-up of musicians backed the legend at a concert in Los Angeles. Although the stage is packed with the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello and Jackson Browne, they all wisely stay in the background to keep Orbison in the spotlight. Shot in gorgeous black and white, the film is a stunning chronicle of Orbison's unlikely late-career comeback.
When The Who reformed for tours in 1989 and 1996 the stage was so packed by other bandmembers it barely seemed like The Who. (Even the band dubbed those tours "The Who On Ice.") When they came back together in 1999 they stripped down to a lean five-piece, and this 1999 Las Vegas gig was their first show with that line-up. From the first notes of "I Can't Explain" it's clear that the magic of the old band had survived intact. Less than three years later bassist John Entwistle would die.
In 2008 filmmaker Davis Guggenheim held the ultimate three-way guitar summit with Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White. The three men come from different generations and have wildly different approaches to the guitar, which is what makes their jam at the end all the more fascinating. Before that they share their life stories, taking nostalgic trips back to the houses and schools where they perfected their craft. When Jimmy Page picks up his guitar and shows the others how he wrote "Whole Lotta Love" it's a real trip to watch White and Edge grin like schoolboy fans.
The making of the Rolling Stones 1972 masterpiece Exile In Main St. is one of the most mythical periods of their career. In 2010, to accompany the re-release of the LP, the band released this extensive documentary that explains the real story. They never quite get to the bottom of whether the mansion in France where they recorded it was a Nazi headquarters during World War Two, but new interviews with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts and Mick Taylor explain almost everything else about the album.
In 1998 journalist Albert Goldman wrote a scathing, mean-spirited book about John Lennon. This documentary, released the same year, was partially created to set the record straight. Offering interviews with Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, Julian Lennon and many others, the movie traces Lennon's entire life and shows fascinating historical footage, from the famous Bed-In for Peace to more private moments of John at home in the late 1970s during his five-year hiatus from music.
Today Wilco's 2002 LP Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is regarded as their finest work, but when they turned it in to their label nearly a decade ago it was rejected and the group was dropped. This film chronicles this tumultuous time period, and the breakdown in relations between frontman Jeff Tweedy and guitarist Jay Bennett. It remains the definitive rock documentary of the 2000s.
To many people The Flaming Lips aren't known for much besides their bizarre 1993 alt-rock hit "She Don't Use Jelly," but to their army of fans they are the only band that matters. This 2005 documentary traces their journey from their early days struggling in Oklahoma City through their alt-rock phase in the early 1990s to the making of their stunning late career masterpieces The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots.
In October of 1974 Muhammad Ali famously fought George Foreman at the legendary Rumble In The Jungle match. Less remembered is the concert that accompanied the bout, featuring James Brown, Bill Withers, B.B. King, The Spinners, Celia Cruz and the Fania All-Stars. In 2008 the footage was turned into this stellar documentary that captures some of the greatest performers in R&B history at the peak of their powers.
Are you someone who is in need of a good laugh at the moment? Do you have a subscription to Amazon Prime? Are you, by any chance, a fan of Jim Gaffigan? If you have answered yes to any of these questions, you are in luck, because Amazon Prime has more than enough stand-up comedy specials available to stream right now.
To save your hand from carpal tunnel due to an excess of scrolling, I have taken it upon myself to narrow down your choices to the following best stand-up comedy specials from the best stand-up comedians in the business that I could find on Amazon Prime. Hopefully, these stand-up comedy specials hit the spot for you.
Never has the art of ventriloquism ever been nearly as cool as when Jeff Dunham gave it a much-needed edge, turning himself into one of the most successful men to stick his hand inside a puppet. In his very first comedy special, Arguing with Myself, the highly talented, internationally renowned performer entertains a Santa Ana, California, audience by engaging in many a conversational conflict with his pint-sized friends: the elderly curmudgeon Walter, Southern fried Bubba J, pimpin' Sweet Daddy Dee, overly energetic creature of unknown origin Peanut, and a jalapeo on a stick named Jos.
After hitting it big with his chart-topping interview podcast, WTF, Marc Maron decided to return to his stand-up roots with this special. It is up to you, however, to decide if his anxious reluctance to do the show in the first place is warranted. In Thinky Pain, the then 50-year-old future star of Netflix's award-winning series GLOW and a few scenes in Todd Phillips' Joker reflects on his own self-loathing tendencies, his relentless neuroses, and presents a collection of interesting auto-biographical anecdotes, such as a quest to rediscover the music of his youth.
It can actually pay to be a little unprofessional when you tell jokes for a living, as Ron White goes to great lengths to prove in this 80-minute special. Once again accompanied onstage with his trusty scotch and cigars, the Blue Collar Comedy Tour veteran, who also goes by "Tater Salad," tells a Texas audience yet another collection of anecdotes that would not be the same without his impeccable comedic timing. On the other hand, his story about partying on his friend Dr. Phil McGraw's yacht is pretty wild on its own.
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So that you don't have to spend hours searching through thousands of movies, some good, some bad and everything in-between, we've compiled a list of the best science-fiction movies and television shows currently on Netflix.
Synopsis: 13-year-old Adam Reed, still grieving the sudden death of his father a year earlier, walks into his garage one night to find a wounded pilot hiding there. This mysterious pilot turns out to be the older version of himself from the future, where time travel is in its infancy. He has risked everything to come back in time on a secret mission. Together they must embark on an adventure into the past to find their father, set things right, and save the world. Adding to the challenge of the mission, the two Adams discover they really don't like each other very much, and if they're going to save the world, they're first going to have to figure out how to get along.
Why you should watch: Ryan Reynolds leads an all-star cast in this family action drama that incorporates much of Reynold's dry wit. While not paying too much attention to the so-called "rules" of time travel, it brings drama and the complexities of human relationships into a spirited science fiction movie aimed at older kids and young adults. Joining Reynolds is an impressive line up, including Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner, Zoe Saldana and Catherine Keener. Plus it's directed by Shawn Levy, who also gave us "Free Guy" and "Real Steel."
Synopsis: The story of the first moon landing in the summer of 1969 from two interwoven perspectives. It both captures the astronaut and mission control view of the triumphant moment, and the lesser-seen bottom up perspective of what it was like from an excited kid's perspective, living near NASA but mostly watching it on TV like hundreds of millions of others. It's ultimately both an exacting re-creation of this special moment in history and a kid's fantasy about being plucked from his average life in suburbia to secretly train for a covert mission to the moon.
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