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There are certain pop rock songs that you pretend you don't know. John Carney has built a career out of making people like you feel okay about liking those songs. He has done just that with Power Ballad, his first feature in almost 20 years. The film caught me by surprise on an otherwise unimportant day. In the film, Paul Rudd plays the titular character who is a wedding singer in Ireland. He had the potential to make it big in the pop music world. He missed the chance, made

I want to start with a confession. When I heard Antoine Fuqua was making a Michael Jackson biopic, my first instinct was a very long, very tired sigh. We all know this story, We lived that story, Michael Jackson was so famous, so relentlessly documented, so mythologised in real time that a biopic feels almost redndant bedore it begins. And yet here I am, telling you that Michael got me. Not completely, not unconditionally, but genuinely. Let's get the obvious stuff out of the