review Archives - Good News! https://goodnewsplanet.com/tag/review/ Life Affirming Good News Fri, 07 Mar 2025 19:37:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://goodnewsplanet.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-Earth-1200-×-1200-px-32x32.png review Archives - Good News! https://goodnewsplanet.com/tag/review/ 32 32 ‘The Session Man: Nicky Hopkins’ US DVD, set for March 18, 2025 release https://goodnewsplanet.com/the-session-man-nicky-hopkins-us-dvd-set-for-march-18-2025-release/ Fri, 07 Mar 2025 14:29:07 +0000 https://goodnewsplanet.com/?p=85991 The Session Man: Nicky Hopkins DVD   This 90-minute documentary tells the story of the legendary pianist Nicky Hopkins, dubbed rock and roll’s greatest session man, who played on over 250 albums and on some of the most iconic rock tracks ever recorded.   Amongst his stand-out achievements, Nicky contributed to records by The Rolling Stones (14 …

The post ‘The Session Man: Nicky Hopkins’ US DVD, set for March 18, 2025 release appeared first on Good News!.

]]>

The Session Man: Nicky Hopkins DVD
 
This 90-minute documentary tells the story of the legendary pianist Nicky Hopkins, dubbed rock and roll’s greatest session man, who played on over 250 albums and on some of the most iconic rock tracks ever recorded.
 
Amongst his stand-out achievements, Nicky contributed to records by The Rolling Stones (14 albums), The Kinks, The Who and The Beatles, but he also appears on solo albums of all four Beatles, most notably, John Lennon’s Imagine.
 
The list of interviewees in the documentary is impressive and includes Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, Peter Frampton, Dave Davies and Pete Townshend, each giving their unique take on what it was that made Nicky so special and the magic he brought to every track he appeared on.
 
The Session Man was originally released in the US on November 5, 2024 on Amazon (TVoD), and by popular demand, it is now being released on DVD from March 18, 2025, also on Amazon:
 
 
 
‘This is an excellent and well-made documentary that even those who don’t know a lot about Hopkins will find interesting.’
Aaron Badgley, Spill Magazine
 
For more information, please contact:

THE SESSION MAN: NICKY HOPKINS MUSIC DOCUMENTARY FEATURING MICK JAGGER, KEITH RICHARDS, PETER FRAMPTON AND MORE TO BE RELEASED IN NORTH AMERICA ON NOVEMBER 5TH

 

LEGENDARY SESSION PIANIST NICKY HOPKINS FEATURED ON OVER 250 ALBUMS AND ICONIC SONGS WITH THE ROLLING STONES, THE BEATLES, THE WHO, STEVE MILLER BAND AND MORE

 

The Session Man Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egp63SvF9aU 

 

September 30, 2024 – The Session Man: Nicky Hopkins, a documentary film that tells the story of the prolific virtuoso session pianist Nicky Hopkins, will be released in North America November 5th on TVOD/PPV on Amazon Prime, additional major platforms and will also be available on DVD in late 2024. For viewing information, please visit www.thesessionmanfilm.com. Featuring commentary from Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Peter Frampton, Pete Townshend and more, The Session Man explores the legendary 30-year career of Nicky Hopkins and his contributions to over 250 albums, including John Lennon’s Imagine, The Who’s My Generation, and countless iconic songs like “You Are So Beautiful” by Joe Cocker, “Sympathy For The Devil” by The Rolling Stones and “Revolution” by The Beatles. Directed by Mike Treen, THE SESSION MAN has been shown at festivals in a number of countries, winning awards in London, Berlin, Rome, Madrid, Los Angeles and Paris. It is scheduled to be screened in The New Zealand Indie Film Festival and The Albuquerque Film Festival at the end of September.

 

“Nicky Hopkins was a dear friend and iconic piano player. No one had his wonderful touch, feel and choice of notes. I was lucky to have him play on my Somethin’s Happening record. I miss him and listen to him often. He taught me plenty.” – Peter Frampton

 

“THE SESSION MAN film is not a Hollywood biopic, rather a homage to a virtuoso and prolific session pianist. There is a sad irony in that Nicky Hopkins was unknown to the greater public but amongst his peers, he was treated as Rock Royalty. The sheer volume of albums and singles that he contributed on and the testimonials from the star-studded list of interviewees in the film allows me the right to say that Nicky’s story deserves to reach a wide audience worldwide. As Bob Lefsetz succinctly put it, ‘The Session Man” is a link in your education. It fills holes in your mental history of rock and roll. Which revolutionized society, impacted an entire generation, music was the coolest medium, it drove the culture and Nicky was there, not on the periphery, but audible on some of your favorite records.’” – Director Mike Treen

 

Classically trained at The Royal Academy of Music, London, Nicky Hopkins could play Rock and Roll piano like nobody else. His legendary piano riffs and dazzling musical motifs helped ordinary tracks become iconic. With a career spanning 30 years until his tragic early death at age 50, he played with some of the greatest bands and artists in the world including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Steve Miller Band, Joe Cocker, Jerry Garcia, Art Garfunkel and many others.

 

By the late 1960’s, Nicky was one of the busiest and most successful session players in London. He then joined the Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood, which took him to America. He settled in Mill Valley enjoying the free-wheeling San Francisco ‘Bay Area Bands’ and playing at Woodstock with Jefferson Airplane. The 1970’s were his most successful period, commuting across The Atlantic to play with The Stones, John Lennon, and on countless sessions in Los Angeles.

 

Living with Crohn’s disease since his teens, his ability to tour was limited, although he would manage tours with The Rolling Stones, Joe Cocker and Art Garfunkel. But it was in the recording studio where he became a legend amongst his peers. As Keith Richards recounts, “We were coming up with songs that [were]absolutely beyond Stu’s- let alone capabilities-his dreams! He didn’t want to know! So, I think that Stu called and said, ‘The only guy that can handle this is Nicky Hopkins.’” Nicky ended up playing on a total of 14 Stones albums.

 

Nicky’s story is told in the film by Albert Lee, Antonia Cipollina, Arthur Rochester, Benmont Tench, Bill Wyman, Billy Nicholls, Bro Paul Brown, Chris Kimsey, Chris Welch, Chuck Leavell, Dave Davies, Glyn Johns, Graham Parker, Gray Levett, Greg Phillinganes, Harry Shearer, Helen O’Hara, Jack Casady, Jim Keltner, Joe Tansin, John Goddard, Jorma Kaukonen, Julian Dawson (Nicky’s biographer – author of And on Piano… Nicky Hopkins), Keith Richards, Merrell Fankhauser, Mick Jagger, Mike Hurst, Mike McCartney, Moira Hopkins (Nicky’s widow), Morgan Fisher, Nils Lofgren, Paddy Milner, Pete Edmonds, Pete Sears, Pete Townshend, Peter Frampton, PP Arnold, Rory Kaplan, Sarah Sleet (CEO of Crohn’s & Colitis UK), Shel Talmy, Slim Jim Phantom, Terry Reid and Tom Speight.

 

The Session Man’s narrator, Bob Harris, former presenter of the BBC’s The Old Grey Whistle Test, had no hesitation in confirming that, “His contributions on their records made him Rock and Roll’s greatest Session Man.”

 

The Session Man Online:

Official Website: www.thesessionmanfilm.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/thenickyhopkins

Facebook: www.facebook.com/thenickyhopkins

Twitter/X: www.twitter.com/thenickyhopkins

 

The Session Man Press Contacts:

Lauren Mele

Beachwood Entertainment Collective

Lauren@Beachwood.LA

 

Jean Sievers

Beachwood Entertainment Collective

Jean@Beachwood.LA

Last week, on 5th November 2024,‘The Session Man: Nicky Hopkins’ was released in the US on:
If you live in the US, when you’ve had a chance to watch the documentary, could you please leave us a review on Rotten Tomatoes via this link? https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_session_man 
That would really help us! Thank you.
We’ve been getting a lot of media coverage since the release! Here’s a selection:
As a result, yesterday, we reached position 6 in the iTunes Top Documentary Movies Chart!
Meanwhile, the film is still doing really well in Japan! See: www.sessionman.jp
So we’re getting there!
Until next time,
John Wood, co-producer
+44 7771 520001

Share

The post ‘The Session Man: Nicky Hopkins’ US DVD, set for March 18, 2025 release appeared first on Good News!.

]]> 85991 THE DESIRE CARD, THE MENTOR, and SLOW DOWN https://goodnewsplanet.com/the-desire-card-the-mentor-and-slow-down/ Fri, 09 Oct 2020 17:11:23 +0000 http://goodnewsplanet.com/?p=67812 Lee Matthew Goldberg is the author of the novels THE DESIRE CARD, THE MENTOR, and SLOW DOWN. He has been published in multiple languages and nominated for the 2018 Prix du Polar. His Alaskan Gold Rush novel THE ANCESTOR is forthcoming in 2020. He is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Fringe, dedicated to publishing fiction …

The post THE DESIRE CARD, THE MENTOR, and SLOW DOWN appeared first on Good News!.

]]>

Lee Matthew Goldberg is the author of the novels THE DESIRE CARD, THE MENTOR, and SLOW DOWN. He has been published in multiple languages and nominated for the 2018 Prix du Polar. His Alaskan Gold Rush novel THE ANCESTOR is forthcoming in 2020. He is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Fringe, dedicated to publishing fiction that’s outside-of-the-box.

His pilots and screenplays have been finalists in Script Pipeline, Book Pipeline, Stage 32, We Screenplay, the New York Screenplay, Screen craft and the Hollywood Screenplay contests. After graduating with an MFA from the New School, his writing has also appeared in the anthology DIRTY BOULEVARD, The Millions, Cagibi, The Montreal Review, The Adirondack Review, The New PlainsReview, Underwood Press, Monologing and others. He is the co-curator of The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series and lives in New York City. Follow him at leematthewgoldberg.com

#lee #matthew #goldberg #author #novels #novel #desire #card #mentor #slow #down #published #multiple #languages #nominated #2018 #prix #du #polar #alaskan #gold #rush #ancestor #forthcoming #2020 #editor-in-chief #editor #in #chief #founder #fringe #dedicated #publishing #fiction #outside #of #the #box #outside-of-the-box #pilots #screenplays #finalists #script #pipeline #stage #32 #screenplay #contests #graduating #mfa #new #school #writing #anthology #dirty #boulevard #millions #cagibi #montreal #review #adirondack #plainsreview #underwood #press #monologing #curator #guerrilla #lit #reading #series #lives #nyc #york #city #leematthewgoldberg

Share

The post THE DESIRE CARD, THE MENTOR, and SLOW DOWN appeared first on Good News!.

]]> 67812 Dental Health Crisis with Alison Corcoran EVP and Chief Marketing Officer, DentaQuest https://goodnewsplanet.com/dental-health-crisis-with-alison-corcoran-evp-and-chief-marketing-officer-dentaquest/ Sun, 05 Jan 2020 10:07:02 +0000 http://goodnewsplanet.com/?p=63280 DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE’S AN IMPORTANT LINK BETWEEN DENTALHEALTH AND YOUR OVERALL HEALTH? BUT FOR TOO MANY AMERICANS – ABOUT 74 MILLION – A SIMPLETRIP TO THE DENTIST IS IMPOSSIBLE… BECAUSE THEY DON’T HAVE ACCESS TO ORALHEALTH CARE. HERE TO TALK ABOUT GAPS IN THE ORAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM AND WHAT CAN DONE ABOUT …

The post Dental Health Crisis with Alison Corcoran EVP and Chief Marketing Officer, DentaQuest appeared first on Good News!.

]]>

DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE’S AN IMPORTANT LINK BETWEEN DENTALHEALTH AND YOUR OVERALL HEALTH?
BUT FOR TOO MANY AMERICANS – ABOUT 74 MILLION – A SIMPLETRIP TO THE DENTIST IS IMPOSSIBLE… BECAUSE THEY DON’T HAVE ACCESS TO ORALHEALTH CARE.
HERE TO TALK ABOUT GAPS IN THE ORAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM AND WHAT CAN DONE ABOUT THEM, IS ALISON CORCORAN, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER AT DENTAQUEST.
BIO-AlisonCorcoran
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
Alison Corcoran is EVP and Chief Marketing Officer of DentaQuest, the nation’s leading organization dedicated to improving the oral health of all. Under her leadership, DentaQuest is transforming the model of care and achieving significant social impact.
Alison brings a powerful combination of future-forward strategies and deep marketing expertise to DentaQuest’s brand and business model. Through her efforts, DentaQuest is developing innovative, data-intensive approaches to elevate the patient experience and improve care overall.
As a passionate champion of progress, Alison also serves as President of the DentaQuest Partnership for Oral Health Advancement, which she helped establish. The Partnership addresses under invested areas of oral health that are critical to providing better care to more people. To date, the organization’s research and strategic grantmaking programs have provided more than $200 million in funding to improve oral health.
Prior to joining DentaQuest, Alison served in a number of senior leadership positions for national and international organizations including Staples, Sears Canada, and BJ’s Wholesale Club. Alison also founded Corcoran & Associates, a marketing and strategy firm providing consultancy services to companies such as Zipcar and The Princeton Review.
She received her Master of Business Administration (MBA)from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College and her Bachelor of Arts (BA) from Williams College.
Website DentaQuest.com
· Courtesy language: This interview is sponsored by DentaQuest.

Share

The post Dental Health Crisis with Alison Corcoran EVP and Chief Marketing Officer, DentaQuest appeared first on Good News!.

]]> 63280 STYROFOAMMON REVIEWS https://goodnewsplanet.com/styrofoammon-reviews/ Tue, 30 Apr 2019 16:44:58 +0000 http://goodnewsplanet.com/?p=60845 “I loved the film because I spent a lot of time on the water in Hatteras, North Carolina, so I can relate to the need to eliminate the use of single-use plastic that affects oceans, marine life and public health, especially as a yoga instructor.” said Patricia Gavin.  “It made me want to recycle the …

The post STYROFOAMMON REVIEWS appeared first on Good News!.

]]> “I loved the film because I spent a lot of time on the water in Hatteras, North Carolina, so I can relate to the need to eliminate the use of single-use plastic that affects oceans, marine life and public health, especially as a yoga instructor.” said Patricia Gavin.  “It made me want to recycle the styrofoam as yoga props in my business.”

“I thought the film was a balanced approach to the issue of styrofoam and waste stream,” Christina Taylor, Global Co-Lab.

Featured Articles

Coote, Darryl.  “Mayor Bill De Blasio Bans New York City From Using Single Use Plastics.”  United Press International (UPI). April 11, 2019.

Williams, Diedre.  “Buffalo’s Talk of Styrofoam Ban Pits Environment vs. Cost” April 14, 2019.

 

Share

The post STYROFOAMMON REVIEWS appeared first on Good News!.

]]> 60845 Bill Plympton’s new animated feature film ”Revengeance” is now available for review. https://goodnewsplanet.com/bill-plymptons-new-animated-feature-film-revengeance-is-now-available-for-review/ Thu, 09 Aug 2018 19:07:18 +0000 http://goodnewsplanet.com/?p=57290  It opens at the IFC, New York, http://www.ifccenter.com on August 3rd, and at the Laemmle Monica Film Center, Santa Monica, https://www.laemmle.com on August 10th. This animated feature film has won these awards: Special Jury Remi Award, Animation – Worldfest Houston, April 21-30, 2017. Grand Jury Prize, Animated Feature Competition – Nashville Film Festival, April …

The post Bill Plympton’s new animated feature film ”Revengeance” is now available for review. appeared first on Good News!.

]]>


It opens at the IFC, New York, http://www.ifccenter.com on August 3rd, and at the
Laemmle Monica Film Center, Santa Monica, https://www.laemmle.com on August 10th.
This animated feature film has won these awards:
Special Jury Remi Award, Animation – Worldfest Houston, April 21-30, 2017.
Grand Jury Prize, Animated Feature Competition – Nashville Film Festival, April 20-29, 2017.
Special Distinction Prize among Feature Films in International Competition – Bucheon International Animation Festival, Korea, October 20-24, 2017.
“Revengeance” Screening Links:
https://vimeo.com/169256153
Password: r0dr0ss3
Vimeo: http://www.ifccenter.com/films/revengeance/
The password is: r0dr0ss3
Trailer: Revengeance Trailer HD – YouTube
2:22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWmqpFpq-O8
An Industry legend, Bill Plympton is known as the King of Indie Animation and was the first person to hand-draw an entire animated feature film. Bill has created animation master classes in around the world. New York,1968, Bill launched his career creating cartoons for name publications, The New York Times, National Lampoon, Playboy and Screw. Bill is famous for his Dog Shorts Series. In 2005 he received an Academy Award nomination for his Short Animation “Guard Dog”. Others in this series include, Guide Dog, Hot Dog, Horn Dog and Cop Dog. He has won over 100 awards for his films.
As of 2018 Plympton had created over 60 animated short films and six animated features. Bill has self-published three collections of his comic strips, in addition to “The Sleazy Cartoons of Bill Plympton”, he also self-published “Sloppy Seconds” and “We Eat Tonight”. Prior to that, other companies published his cartoons in collections called “Tube Strips”, “Medium Rare” and “Polls Apart: How to Tell A Democrat from a Republican” “Through the Wire” by Kanye West, “Make Toons that Sell Without Selling Out” published by Focal Press. “Independently Animated” Bill Plympton, Rizzoli Press.
Bill has collaborated on a number of films, music videos and book projects with amongst others, Jackie Green, Madonna, Kanye West, Weird Al Yankovic and Jim Lujan.
JIM LUJAN co-created “Revengeance” with Bill,working on the story, designs, script, music and had voiced many of the characters. Jim is anunderground animation veteran whose films include, “Freakdaddy”, “Unchained Fists”, “Mama I’m a Thug” and made for the Titmouse/6 Point Harness Rugburn Channel, “Sanjourno Must Die”. His animation has appeared at Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Festival, Adult Swim. Jim creates the art, animation, music and voice-overs for his own shorts and feature films.
A Selected List of Bill’s Plympton’s Awards:
1987 Oscar Nomination for his Short Film Your Face
1991 Push Comes to Shove,won the Jury Prize, Cannes Palme d’Or
2001 EAT Grand Prize for Short Films, Cannes Film Festival Critics’ Week
Prix Canal +Cannes Court Métrage
2005 Life Time Achievement (Time Machine Award) SITGES Film Festival
2006 Special Career Award – Fantasporto Film Festival
2008 IDIOTS AND ANGELS premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on 26 April 2008
2008 IDIOTS AND ANGELS won the Special Distinction prize in the feature film category,
Annecy International Animated Film Festival
2006 Winsor McCay Award, Annie Awards by ASIFA-Hollywood
2008 MoCCA (Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art) – Cartoonist of the Year, MoCCA Art Festival
2010 Delray Beach Film Festival, “The Cow Who Wanted To Be a Hamburger”
2011 20th Annual Cinema St. Louis Film Festival, Lifetime Achievement Award
2011 Burbank International Film Festival, Pioneer in Theatrical Animation Award
2011 Action On Film International Film Festival, Lifetime Achievement Award
2013 ANIMAFicx Award, 51st Gijon International Film Festival: Cheatin
A collection of more than 180 Plympton items is held at the Academy Film Archive.
U.S. Press Quotes:
“Revengeance is a mind-fucking descent into ’70s Los Angeles scuzz.”
Walker MacMurdo, Willamette Week
“A High-minded stroll between whimsy and lunacy.”
Jay Horton, Willamette Week
“Lujan and Plympton are both masters of sleazy irreverence and their mordant, scatalogical-inflected humour is bracingly amped up in their collaboration. Together, they have produced an unbridled, caustic, grotesquely comic vision of America that feels particularly timely.”
Virginie Sélavy, Sight & Sound
French Reviewers: “A psychedelic thriller on a paranoiac America in the dirty and cool style of Plympton.Crazy and cool”
Les Inrockuptibles
“Bikers, eccentric girls, tattooed mouths – the Maverick of the animation realize a thriller like Tarantino, virulent and ironic. Completely disturbs and full of humor”
Vocable
JPEGS
BikersTexts.jpg
SenatorTexts.jpg
LanaTexts.jpg
OdellBraxtonTexts.jpg
Download link
https://wetransfer.com/downloads/b61d380beeead894ab857244aac3368f20180727170840/fb68b5664296a485ade4f8608d2fe49920180727170840/c78706

Share

The post Bill Plympton’s new animated feature film ”Revengeance” is now available for review. appeared first on Good News!.

]]> 57290