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‘Brown Sugar’, ‘Mustang Sally’, ‘When A Man Loves A Woman’: the string of hits to emerge from the sleepy Alabama ‘burb that gives this documentary its title would fill a dozen jukeboxes.
But it’s the story behind the music that elevates Greg Camalier’s film, focusing as it does on go-getting producer Rick Hall, his in-house band The Swampers and the wheeler-dealing that made their humble ‘Fame’ studio punch so dramatically above its weight.
Archive footage is spliced with talking head interviews to fashion a fascinating snapshot of an era-defining sound.
As Aretha might say, respect.
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33 years after his cartoon was canceled, Captain Planet is back (and kinda hot) in a new comic book
Bloodborne still seems a long way from getting an official 60fps port, but fans have finally gotten PS4 emulators to deliver the remaster they’ve wanted for years
