Alex Winter’s “Zappa” is an odd, occasionally jarring documentary, but it wouldn’t make sense for it to be anything else. The film about the iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa sometimes feels like an ...

They launched a Kickstarter campaign targeting Zappa fans around the world that in raising $1.25 million broke funding records for a documentary-related project. They spent the next two years spending ...

While we didn’t have a whole lot of new theatrical movie offerings this weekend (although a new Croods movie opened nationwide), there is a most notable streaming offering now playing via The Loft’s ...

Alex Winter's latest doc, 'Zappa,' digs into private vaults for a portrait of the singular musician. By John DeFore Even his most dedicated fans tend to accept that not all their friends will agree ...

The “Zappa Original Motion Picture Soundtrack,” the companion album to the highly acclaimed Alex Winter-directed documentary “Zappa” about the prolific genius composer, free speech activist, cultural ...

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More than a few were obsessive Zappa fans who hoped to gain access to his fabled vaults. Housed in the sprawling basement of the Zappa family home, a treasure trove of thousands of hours of rarely or ...