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Michael sounds like a Michael Jackson fan’s dream while Man In The Mirror sounds like an incredibly lacking, unintentionally funny ode to the King of Pop, and maybe both of those things are true, but Man In The Mirror has something that Michael definitely lacked: the courage to explore its hero, warts and all.
Read MoreIn protecting Michael Jackson’s memory so fiercely from “Wacko Jacko” negative energy, the filmmakers fail to create a believable human portrait.
Read MoreJames’ next pick: The VH1 original movie Man in the Mirror: a biopic about the King of Pop himself, Michael Jackson. I say “sort of” because the film did not have the rights to any of Jackson’s music.
Read MoreThe average person would be primed, after three musicals in a row, for James to have continued on that track. And arguably he did, with Kenneth Anger’s short film Mouse Heaven.
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