New Netflix special star Bill Murray has never watched Netflix

Though nominally inspired by real-life events, "Rock the Kasbah" collapses into abject disorder.

"I was not convinced, but Miley Cyrus is really f**king good", Murray told the Hall H crowd during the Rock the Kasbah panel.

Murray, who has rarely been less charming onscreen, stars as Richie Lanz, a loathsomely loudmouthed, down-on-his-luck music manager.

When we meet Richie, he's headquartered in a shabby Van Nuys motel, fleecing would-be singers for $1,200 checks in exchange for promises of personal management. There is no further discussion of the USO tour.

As it turns out, Ronnie has about as much of a role in the movie as she has control over her own career. He can eventually get another passport and another plane ticket, after all, but what will become of her?

Rock the Kasbah is a comedy directed by Barry Levinson (The Humbling, Rain Man). In any case, it's here that Richie first hears the mellifluous voice of Salima (Leem Lubany), a village girl secretly practicing Cat Stevens songs in a cave. Being the type of character who rarely responds to situations in a recognizable human way, Richie deals with this dilemma by tagging along with a friendly pair of Herbalife salesmen turned gun runners (Scott Caan, Danny McBride) for a wild night out. Dad isn't wild about this, and so it's up to the white man to rescue Salima from her backwards culture. Desperate times call for desperate measures, after all. "She's lost an enormous amount of weight". Rock the Kasbah-the dialogue acknowledges that there are no casbahs in Afghanistan, by the way-zips right along. I wish there were to say about the actress' performance, but she's hardly in the movie, even though she's the one who makes the most daring decisions. There's Bruce Willis, randomly, as a mercenary who acts as the brawn to Richie's brains.

She's revealed that, in fact, that not a whole lot of work goes in to making Kate Hudson look like Kate Hudson - and that anyone has time for her workouts. And to illustrate this Vulture infographic. But the story wanders as aimlessly as Lanz seems to. Richie convincing a father to accept his daughter. An obvious source of research for the film, Havana Marking's 2009 Afghan Star, per Slant's Joseph Jon Lanthier, argued "that one region's pop detritus is another's ideological maturation".


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