Not Fade Away - 2012 - 3½ Stars

Actors:  John Magaro, James Gandolfini
Director:  David Chase

There's a point in Not Fade Away where I was disgusted.  I thought David Chase had made a simpering, yay-me, yay-us, thinly veiled memoir pic.  And about the goddamn mid 1960s, a period in time I could not be less interested in.  He had done such an effective job of convincing me of this that I had forgotten this was made by David Chase.  Indeed, I shouldn't've been worried at all.

There's a clue in the movie about how the movie's going to end, but it's still a ballsy choice.  I sure hope this thing made its money back, because I want to see what David Chase can do if he's turned away from memoir-type pictures.