Articles tagged "joe cocker"

Music DVD Review

Joe Cocker: Cry Me A River

by Tom Useted

[4.Dec.08] :. Joe Cocker is the only person in this entire hour-long program who seems oblivious to the fact that he's being filmed. The fact that he won a Grammy two years later seems like a miracle.

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Joe Cocker: Hymn 4 My Soul

by Steve Horowitz

[11.Jul.08] :. Cocker is not the “Sheffield Shouter” or the smooth singer of yesteryear. He’s somewhere in the middle.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

Super Duper Bad: The Worst Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.08] :. From Good Luck Chuck to Julie Taymor's ill-advised Beatlesque '60s tribute Across the Universe, PopMatters presents the dreck of 2007.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

 

Music Review

Joe Cocker: Classic Cocker

by Evan Sawdey

[29.Nov.07] :. In a very long line of Cocker retrospectives, it's obvious that, though his heart means well, Cocker's career as a musician has been relentlessly one-note.

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News

A new script for Hollywood war movies

by Carrie Rickey [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[11.Oct.07] :. Anti-war demonstrators storm the Pentagon in the movie “Across the Universe.” A career soldier protests the Iraq conflict in “In the Valley of Elah.” The tactics of an elite...

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Film Review

Across the Universe

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Sep.07] :. Such structural spottiness -- great numbers punctuating humdrum character arcs -- is hardly unusual in a musical.

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She’s the guide on this magical mystery tour

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[20.Sep.07] :. NEW YORK—When visionary film and theater director Julie Taymor (“Frida,” “Titus,” Broadway’s “The Lion King”) signed on to make a musical about the...

 

Joe Cocker: Heart & Soul

by Adam Williams

[5.May.05] :. Even with a little help from his friends, Joe Cocker doesn't provide much more than an honest effort with his latest recording.

 

Joe Cocker: Sheffield Steel [Bonus Tracks]

by Jason MacNeil

[1.May.03] :. Joe Cocker has one of those voices that you love or hate, there is virtually no middle ground. From his Woodstock phase as the front man for Mad Dogs & Englishmen, Cocker has created a body of...