Spinning Gold (2023)
8/10
Nostalgia Trip
1 April 2023
Warning: Spoilers
I saw Spinning Gold, starring Jeremy Jordan-Supergirl_tv, Big Cheat; Michelle Monaghan-the Mission: Impossible movies, Machine Gun Preacher; Jay Pharoah-SNL_tv, Ride Along and Lyndsy Fonseca-How I Met Your Mother_tv, the Kick_Ass movies.

This movie is based on the true story of Neil Bogart, who created the most successful independent record company of all time, Casablanca Records. It's written and directed by Neil's son, Timothy Scott Bogart. In case you are unfamiliar with Casablanca Records, they had acts that included Donna Summer, Gladys Knight, The Isley Brothers, The Village People and.....oh yeah, Kiss. Jeremy plays Neil and Michelle is his wife, Beth-remember the old Kiss song Beth? Well, there is a connection. Jay plays Jeremy's business partner and childhood friend and Lyndsy plays the manager for Kiss. It covers all the other companies that Jeremy worked at before creating Casablanca and the ups and downs that occurred along the way-affairs, drug use, etc-and Jeremy does a great job in the role. There is a lot of the music you may remember from the 1970's and 80's and during the end credits, the real Neil Bogart is shown in video clips.

It's rated R for language, drug use and sexual content-including nudity-and has a running time of 2 hours & 17 minutes.

I enjoyed the nostalgia trip down memory lane and this would be a good one to stream.
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