Billie Eilish: The World s a Little Blurry Review: A Very Good Documentary Hang-Out Movie Billie Eilish: The World s a Little Blurry Review: A Very Good Documentary Hang-Out Movie
R.J. Cutler s backstage portrait captures Billie Eilish s rise to stardom - but more important, it shines a light on the old-meets-new electricity that has made her the quintessential pop star of the 21st century.
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Running time: Running time: 141 MIN.
Billie Eilish hasn’t been famous for very long, but when you see her in “Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry,” R.J. Cutler’s two-hour-and-20-minute but never boring documentary hang-out movie, you see why she’s already the quintessential pop star of the 21st century.
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Singer-songwriter Billie Eilish and her family are followed over the course of several years for this Apple TV+ documentary, written and directed by R.J. Cutler ( The September Issue ).
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Billie Eilish: The World s a Little Blurry where singer-songwriter Billie Eilish s brother-producer-collaborator Finneas explains to his and Billie s mother, Maggie Baird, that he s been told by the label to write a hit. The problem is that Billie, he notes, hates writing songs in general and is … so woke about her own persona on the internet that she s terrified of anything that she makes being hated. And her equation is that the more popular something is the more hate it s gonna get. This is the paradoxical mathematics of musical cool, as eternal as pi or the speed of light: The more fans you get, the more fans you lose.
Golden Globes Final Predictions: Best TV Series (Drama) - The Crown Is The One to Beat
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Personally, we wouldn’t be mad to see a surprise victory by “Lovecraft Country” here. That show managed to explore the topics of racial injustice and violence, particularly in the Jim Crow era, through the lens of pulp horror and to amazing results. But alas, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. didn’t nominate its stars, Jurnee Smollett and Jonathan Majors, leaving us to wonder how committed they are to the HBO series. “The Mandalorian” was an Emmy victor several times over thanks to various craft categories, and “Ratched” comes from the awards bait of Mr. Ryan Murphy. But it likely comes down to two other Netflix dramas: “Ozark” and “The Crown.” “Ozark” boasts a compelling, dark mystery and the power of stars Jason Bateman, Laura Linney and Julia Garner. But my money’
Captain Tom inspired Hull boy with rare condition to take on charity walking challenge
Thomas Riley is walking and wheeling a mile a day throughout February 2021
Thomas Riley is out walking whatever the weather (Image: Riley family)
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A plucky Hull schoolboy with a rare medical condition has been inspired by the efforts of the late Captain Sir Tom Moore to walk, and wheel, a mile every day throughout the month of February.