In 1991, a gritty Irish music film about an unlikely soul band became one of the most beloved rock movies of its era. Based on the novel by Roddy Doyle, the film follows a group of working-class ...

Alan Parker, the British director whose exceptionally wide-ranging oeuvre ranged from “Bugsy Malone” to “Evita,” from “Midnight Express” to “The Road to Wellville,” has died. He was 76. The British ...

In 1991, a gritty Irish music film about an unlikely soul band became one of the most beloved rock movies of its era. The Commitments, directed by Alan Parker, was recently included in Consequence's ...