Tag: Tuneful

A new tint of ‘The Color Purple,’ more tuneful and unbound

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There’s a dazzling moment in the new “The Color Purple” (in theaters Dec. 25) in which Fantasia Barrino sings while walking atop an enormous shellac record spinning on a huge gramophone, all while rotating around […]

‘Dreamin’ Wild’ review: Tuneful Casey Affleck shines darkly

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Late-blooming recognition becomes both a blessing and a sideways needle scratch for the aspirations of a struggling singer-songwriter played by an epically downbeat Casey Affleck in director Bill Pohlad’s sweetly melancholic “Dreamin’ Wild.” A well-cast, […]