Real Life Rock Top 10: August 4, 2025
The Beatles in three shapes, Penelope Houston paints murderers, the Mekons tell the truth (again), and so does Daveed Diggs
1 Midas Man, directed by Joe Stephenson, written by Brigit Grant and Jonathan Wakeham (Studio POW/Trevor Beattie Films), at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, Piedmont Theater, Oakland (July 29). As the Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd steps forward to tell his story directly to the audience, guilelessly, it seems, caught up in his own earnestness, his own honestly, as far as he can take it public: we see him blackmailed by a man he picks up, writhing on the floor over a betrayal by a long-time lover, but he’s not telling us about that.
