‘Milli Vanilli’ Review: Doc on Infamous Group Has Plenty of Blame to Go Around

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic A movie, good, bad or indifferent, is always “about” something. But some movies are about more things than others, and as you watch “Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy,” Nancy Buirski’s rapt, incisive, and beautifully exploratory making-of-a-movie documentary, what comes into focus is that “Midnight Cowboy” was about so many things that audiences could sink into the film as if it were a piece of their own lives. The movie was about loneliness. It was about dreams, sunny yet broken. It was about gay male sexuality and the shock of really seeing it, for the first time, in a major motion picture. It was about the crush and alienation of New York City: the godless concrete carnival wasteland, which had never been captured onscreen with the telephoto authenticity it had here. The movie was also about the larger sexual revolution — what the scuzziness of “free love” really looked like, and the overlap between the homoerotic and hetero gaze. It was about money and poverty and class and how they could tear your soul apart. It was about how the war in Vietnam was tearing the soul of America apart. It was about a new kind of acting, built on the realism of Brando, that also went beyond it.

Millie Mackintosh was spotted twinning with her adorable daughter, Aurelia, during their sun-soaked getaway in Zakynthos. The duo snapped a pic of their coordinated ensembles, as Millie donned a stunning blue frilled dress that perfectly complemented the vibrant Mediterranean backdrop.

Founding guitarist Gary Rossington is featured in his final concert with Lynyrd Skynyrd in the new documentary, The 50th Anniversary of Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Millie Court looks to be absolutely thriving two years after winning Love Island with her on and off beau Liam Reardon.The 26 year old reality TV star, who recently jetted off on a luxury trip to the Bahamas, is making more than £10,000 a week, according to recently released public accounts for her company Sagittarius Style. Millie, who was born on December 4, set Sagittarius Style up a few months after winning the show in October 2021 and the company’s name is an apparent nod to the star’s own star sign.

Actress Millie Gibson looks completely different from her Coronation Street days as she celebrated her birthday this weekend. The former Corrie star, who played Kelly Neelan in the ITV soap up until last November, shared a series of pictures to mark her 19th birthday.

The Chase star Mark Labbett shared a post on Instagram as he bid farewell to his new girlfriend Hayley Palmer.

Bradley Walsh was left so stunned with one Chase contestant's victory that he walked off stage. Thursday's instalment of the ITV show saw player Janty secure an amazing defeat of chaser Jenny 'The Vixen' Ryan despite "the worst cash-builder ever", the Mirror reports.

Love Island’s Liam Reardon has broken his silence on rumours he is back together with Millie Court - while insisting he “never cheated” on her.The 23 year old former bricklayer won the ITV2 dating show alongside Millie, 26, in 2021. But they split in July last year as they struggled to cope with the pressure of their newfound fame. However, rumours their romance has been rekindled have been rife over recent weeks - with speculation intensifying after they were pictured on a cruise together with singer Jessica Yallup.

K.J. Yossman “Doctor Who” has just added another star to its roster: 14-year-old Lenny Rush. Rush is set to join the fourteenth season of the re-booted series as a mysterious figure called Morris. He’ll star alongside Ncuti Gatwa, who will take the mantle from David Tennant as the new Timelord, and Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday. Indira Varma also stars as a new character known only as the Duchess while Jonathan Groff joins in “a mysterious and exciting guest role,” according to the BBC. In May, Rush won a BAFTA award for best male performance in a comedy for his role in “Am I Being Unreasonable” alongside Daisy May Cooper.

Millie Court has called out a "bizarre" troll for insulting her over how much makeup she wears, claiming she gets the worst social media comments from women.The former Love Island winner is currently on a luxurious break in the Bahamas and has been sharing images and videos of idyllic scenes by the beach. But one video she made of her doing her makeup for a night out attracted some harsh comments from other people on Instagram who accused her of using too much.

Doctor Who has yet another new recruit.

Ex-Love Island winners Millie Court and Liam Reardon split after less than a year together, but their romance looked set to be revived recently as rumours swirled that they were back together. However, fans' hopes could be dashed by them now unfollowing each other on Instagram. Millie and Liam won their series of Love Island in 2021, but by the time last year's summer series of the ITV2 dating show had launched, they had already announced their split.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic It’s one of the inside-out realities of our era that scandal, if you give it enough time, turns into myth. So it is with the story of Milli Vanilli, the German-French R&B pop duo of the late ’80s and early ’90s who, having sold close to 50 million records, were revealed to be a fake: a pair of lip-syncing Euro pretty boys who hadn’t sung a note on any of their hits or at any of their concerts. Once they’d been unmasked, the rise and fall of Milli Vanilli played out on two levels. The first was the spectacular embarrassing bad joke of it all — though it was never just a joke, since Milli Vanilli’s fans felt a tremendous sense of anger and betrayal at having been fooled. (The joke was on them.) The second level recognized a crucial and obvious truth: that the scandal wasn’t only about Rob Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan, with their teenybop dreads and break-lite dance moves, getting up onstage and singing to prerecorded tracks, as if it had all been their idea. No, the brazen fakery of Milli Vanilli echoed, or at least rhymed with, various other kinds of fakery that were embedded in the music industry (the packaging of boy bands, the use of lip-syncing by established stars). This was certainly more extreme, and worthy of being called on the carpet for, but it wasn’t a stand-alone sin.

HBO documentary, would have taken to the grave if he could have.“Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed” is in the vein of other prominent documentaries aimed at telling the real story behind the Old Hollywood façade, including HBO’s most recent “The Last Movie Stars.” The revelations within the documentary’s 104-minute runtime aren’t revolutionary, but seek to give viewers an authentic look at a man whose life so often was swathed in artifice. It’s impossible to underscore Hudson’s appeal to viewers when he burst onto the scene in 1948.

Addie Morfoot Contributor While gender, race and politically-themed documentaries are once again prevalent at Tribeca Festival, celebrity-driven docus dominate this year’s nonfiction lineup.David Gelb’s “Stan Lee,” Stephen Kijak’s “Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed,” Luke Korem’s “Milli Vanilli,” Frank Marshall’s “Rather,” Betsy Schechter’s “Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive,” and Fernando Villena’s Oscar De La Hoya doc “The Golden Boy” are among the nonfiction titles focused on a bold face name screening at Tribeca, which kicks off on June 7.Marshall calls “Rather,” about longtime news anchor Dan Rather, a “very personal project.”“The collection of stories (Rather) has covered, it’s my history and the history of our country over the past 60 years,” says Marshall. “Dan dreamed of being a reporter and spent a large part of his career in journalism at CBS, including anchoring the CBS Evening News for twenty-four years, so it seemed natural to come to New York City and celebrate the world premiere of our film at Tribeca.”For director Michael Selditch, Tribeca Festival was also the perfect location for the world premiere of his latest docu “Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field,” about the iconic costume designer known best for her work on “Sex and the City.”“Tribeca seemed to make a lot of sense because it is a New York story and Patricia is a New York icon,” says Selditch.The director originally asked Field to be the subject of a documentary in 2019, but she declined.

Millie Radford is soon set to become a mum of three. The 22 year old ix expecting her third child and teased the baby's upcoming arrival with a snap from the same delivery room that her other two children were born in, as she went for a check up. Millie is one of the daughters of 22 Kids and Counting's Sue and Noel Radford, and she's ensuring the huge family gets even bigger as she awaits the birth of her latest child, due in September.

Millie Radford is soon set to become a mum of three.The 22 year old ix expecting her third child and teased the baby's upcoming arrival with a snap from the same delivery room that her other two children were born in, as she went for a check up. Millie is one of the daughters of 22 Kids and Counting's Sue and Noel Radford, and she's ensuring the huge family gets even bigger as she awaits the birth of her latest child, due in September.

Millie Mackintosh has revealed her latest garden transformation at her gorgeous London home, revealing she now "loves to spend time outside". The 33-year-old has shared a glimpse inside her gorgeous garden renovation at her London home that she shares with husband Hugo Taylor and their two daughters Aurelia and Sienna. In her latest Instagram post, shared with her 1.4million followers, the former Made In Chelsea star looked glowing as she sat on the grass playing with her daughters and their toys.

The Radford family are set to welcome another arrival as Millie prepares to become a mum-of-three.

Millie Bobby Brown and her fiancé Jake Bongiovi celebrated their upcoming wedding surrounded by their families at an intimate party last week.The happy occasion was captured in a series of photos shared by hairstylist Pete Burkill, snapping the beaming couple in front of a stunning white balloon arch and a neon sign that proudly displayed "Mr. & Mrs. Bongiovi," capturing their adoring gaze.