{"id":9734,"date":"2011-10-18T23:21:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T03:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=9734"},"modified":"2011-10-18T23:21:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T03:21:53","slug":"rock-flicks-in-your-recent-rearview-mirroron-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-flicks-in-your-recent-rearview-mirroron-the-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Flicks in Your Recent Rearview Mirror\/On the Horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mKDbHa7PANA?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I finally got a chance to watch <em>Nowhere Boy<\/em>, the early <strong>John Lennon<\/strong> biopic starring <strong>Aaron Johnson<\/strong>, the titular star of <em>Kick-Ass<\/em>, and <strong>Kristin Scott-Thomas<\/strong> (as Aunt Mimi) tonight. It was solid. I usually dislike biopics, especially artist biopics, but once this film got past an eddy of Oedipal issues between young John and Julia (<em>Get a room, already!,<\/em> I was feeling at one point) it stuck to a pretty down-to-earth imagining of Lennon&#8217;s late-teenage life and his formation of the eventual Beatles. It certainly helped that the actors portraying the musicians actually knew how to play guitar. As far as Beatles biopics go, I wouldn&#8217;t rank it near the best, The Rutles&#8217; <em>All You Need Is Cash<\/em>, or the most interesting portrayal of early Beatles speculation, 1991&#8217;s <em>The Hours and Times<\/em>, but it did its part to recount some key articles of faith.<\/p>\n<p>I DVR&#8217;d this Lennon flick from <em>Showtime<\/em>. Following the credits there was the above trailer for a new U2 documentary, <em>From the Sky Down<\/em>, on the making of my favorite album by them,\u00a0<em>Achtung Baby<\/em>. This trailer has <em>Recounting of Articles of Faith<\/em> written all over it! It debuts S<strong>aturday, October 29<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>What&#8217;s the most recent rock flick you&#8217;ve seen? What&#8217;s the next rock flick you plan to see?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got a chance to watch Nowhere Boy, the early John Lennon biopic starring Aaron Johnson, the titular star of Kick-Ass, and Kristin Scott-Thomas (as Aunt Mimi) tonight. It was solid. I usually dislike biopics, especially artist biopics, but once this film got past an eddy of Oedipal issues between young John and Julia <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-flicks-in-your-recent-rearview-mirroron-the-horizon\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[34,22,111],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}