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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010) turns his directing skills towards his debut documentary by exploring every single one of the albums made by the offbeat band Sparks. Why you must know this before heading into this musical epic is that these two tempestuous brothers, Ron and Russell Mael, have made 25 albums over a 50-year period. While Wright sets things up as their ultimate super-fan, he follows through two-fold by placing the countless interviews over numerous live performances. After hearing how much the band is loved by “Weird Al” Yankovic, Beck, Flea, Jason Schwartzman, Giorgio Moroder, Fred Armisen, Neil Gaiman, Jane Wiedlin, Björk, and ultimately Wright himself, one should have become an absolute devotee by the film’s 135-minute end. ....
Marvelous and the Black Hole Review: Appealing Odd-Couple Ode to the Magic of, Well, Magic Marvelous and the Black Hole Review: Appealing Odd-Couple Ode to the Magic of, Well, Magic A young girl forms an unlikely bond with an eccentric magician in this predictable but gently winning and peppily performed coming-of-ager. Jessica Kiang, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Not quite adult enough to be young adult, and not quite a children’s film either, Kate Tsang’s “Marvelous and the Black Hole” is a sweet-natured throwback, the kind of film a parent might wish their young teen would watch, rather than whichever dystopian franchise or fanfic adaptation they’re currently involved with. A set-your-watch-by-it riff on the unlikely-friendship-helps-two-lonely-people formula, this time involving a troubled schoolgirl and a stage magician, it is however so nicely performed and takes such honest pleasure in the flourishes of its little magic show, that only ....