I won't be able to see 20 or more movies like so many people do during Cinefest, which started last Saturday and continues to Sunday, Sept. 26. But I will see a few.
Sunday I watched Nowhere Boy (www.nowhereboymovie.com/), the story of John Lennon's early years. I have read several biographys on Lennon and numerous Beatle bios, and I thought the movie was true to the recorded story of his teen years in Liverpool, just before the Beetles or Beatles went to Hamburg in 1960. And the rest is history.

Much of the movie was shot in Liverpool. I visited the city briefly a few years ago and was very impressed with its beautiful architecture. For most Canadians, the only thing we know of Liverpool is the Beatles, and all those dark, black and white images of the post-war port city. The city has cleaned up its act like so many other cities (including ours).

I loved the movie. The music is mostly 50s American blues and early rock 'n' roll, the music Lennon listened to. Songs by Lennon's bands were performed by the Nowhere Boys Band, but I thought that may have been Lennon's voice on Maggie May (the original seaman's song). According to the movie, the sea shanty was the song sang by the Quarrymen at their first performance.

This movie gets five bags of popcorn.