Mr. S. was the alias of the Jack Black-played rocker/teacher character in The School of Rock . That film is one of my favorites from my list of best films about popular music . Very funny, but I also like the way presents an intelligent teaching about rock’s role in our society. Really, it . . . . Continue Reading »
The School of Rock was just a feel-good comedy about Rock and 6th-graders, given life by Jack Black’s performance, right? At first glance, yes. But the script was onto the fact that by the late-90s, rock felt played out, tiresomely/predictably decadent. And that in a reaction to general . . . . Continue Reading »
Since I want films about any and every sort of pop music since the advent of jazz, and about the rock music of 1966 to the present, for this topic I’m sort of overlooking the rock v. rock n’ roll distinction I insist upon elsewhere . And since what I really want are films that convey what . . . . Continue Reading »
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