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Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock'n'Roll
UK 2023
produced by
Mitchell Tolliday, Neil Rickatson, Lauren Cornelius, Giles Alderson (executive), Luke de Belder (executive), Ben Joyce (executive), Ambrice Miller (executive), Maureen O'Sullivan (executive), Bizhan M. Tong (executive) for ProveMotion, MT Films, Figi Productions, Phoenix Waters ProductionsProveMotion, MT Films, Figi Productions, Phoenix Waters Productions
directed by Mitchell Tolliday
starring Imogen Wilde, Luke de Belder, Fran Mcateer, Rhiann Connor, Alyx Nazir, Lauren Cornelius, Niccy Lin, Simon Callow, Kerry Boyne, Madeleine MacMahon, Verona Rose, Sara Galvin, Maxine Finch, Rowland D. Hill, JJ Bee, Natalie Oxley, Alex Stevens, Will Langley, Charlotte Lancaster, Blayze Collins-Perucchetti, Ryan Ashley Allen, Holly Roseveare, Abbie Andrews, Marcus Massey, Mike Kelson, Nyiah Barclay, Nick Wright, Neil Rickatson
written by Neil Rickatson, Mitchell Tolliday, music by Tom Watt, Andrea Nonni, special makeup effects by Holly Roseveare
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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The story of the band Stack of Corpses, and how their keyboarder
- simply called Keys (Imogen Wilde) - was almost killed by a competing
girl, batshit crazy Annie (Lauren Cornelius). at the audition, now they
were so desperate for a song that Drums (Luke de Belder) and Bass (Fran
Meateer) went to a recently deceased punk songwriter's (Simon Callow)
house to steal one of his unfinished tunes - and accidently killig his
widow (Sara Salvin) and even the neighbour's (Maxine Finch) dog in the
process, how they totally botched up an interview with none other than
that songwriter's daughter (Niccy Lin), how their manager (Alyx Nazir)
gets killed by a gangster (JJ Bee) whose chart-altering software he
neglected to pay for, how their singer Brian (Rhiann Connor) died from
auto-asphyxiation, how a dispute broke out between the surviving members
over the band's royalties, and how they finally ended up tied up in the
basement of their arch enemy - but who could that arch enemy possibly be?
So basically all in a day's work of a rock'n'roll band ...
Sure, Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock'n'Roll
might be chock-full of rock'n'roll clichés - but the film's really all
the better for it: It's a not always flattering satire on the music
business, its comedy painted in broad strokes but never shying away from
anything, even when things get bloody - and they do quite a bit. But this
certain loudness fits the theme of the film rather well, actually.
Now add to this a suitably dynamic direction and a solid cast - with
Lauren Cornelius' hilarious and scene-stealing Annie in a memorable
supporting role deserving an extra mention -, and you've got yourself a
really fun comedy that would also work very well as a party movie.
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