Category Archives: Theater Ballroom

Monterey Pop (1968)

This review was originally posted on January 9, 2012. It’s being reposted in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Monterey Pop Festival, originally held June 16-18, 1967. With Michael Wadleigh’s Woodstock (1970) gradually transforming from an engrossing concert film … Continue reading

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This is Spinal Tap (1984)

Before the Spinal Tap reunion shows, the many TV appearances, the albums, the induction into the Criterion Collection; before the Christopher Guest-directed mockumentaries, often reuniting Guest with his fellow Tap members; before the exponential rise in the original film’s reputation, … Continue reading

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The Apple (1980)

Holy Apple, sacred Apple Take a little chance Get into a trance And join me in the Apple dance! Whoa! Go, go! Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it! In the 1994 of The Apple (1980), society … Continue reading

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