IFFBoston ’13 Review: Good Ol’ Freda

To Freda Kelly, the Beatles were just a local band. Working in a secretarial pool around the corner from the famed Cavern Club, early in Good Ol’ Freda, Kelly estimates she saw maybe 190 of the Beatles 295 performances there. While her officemates were swooning over Pat Boone and Cliff Richard, Kelly was obsessed with …

Zemeckis to Remake ‘Yellow Submarine’

Robert Zemeckis is eyeing yet another 3d motion capture movie. The ‘Back to the Future’ director is in talks to direct a remake of ‘Yellow Submarine’ for Disney. The original film released in 1968 was about a soldier named Old Fred, who meets up with the Beatles. Fred travels in a yellow submarine to Pepperland. …

Missing Beatles Track Coming to ‘Light?’

‘Carnival of Light,’ a track recorded by the Beatles January 1967, might be released soon.  In an interview, Paul McCartney has said that he has the master tape in-hand, and thinks that now might be the time to offer this track to the public. ‘Light,’ is one of the few Beatles tracks that has eluded …