Directed by Amy Goldstein
Featuring Kate Nash, Tom Biller, Linda Buratto and Kate Craig
Running time: 1 hour and 29 minutes

by Jessie Landivar-Prescott

“Music is by my side/ Music will never leave/ To the music hold on”

Hello, honey. Yes, I just finished watching the Kate Nash documentary…It was good. I didn’t hardly know who she was before this doc. I’d heard her name from years ago, mmm hmm. I’m super glad I saw this because it turns out that she deserves our respect. Yeah, ours- us women. She is terribly honest, musically talented and charismatic. So I can go on about her personality a bit here because the doc is about her, after all. 

The doc takes us all around her career and keeps bringing us back around to her stage performances. We gather an appreciation of her beginning as a super pop star within the music industry, to being dumped by her label, to being picked up by a superman-cum-svengali manager who steals most of her money (the scene where she has to move out of her house is heartbreaking), to returning home to London, to landing a role on the Netflix series GLOW and Kickstarting her 2018 album “Yesterday Was Forever”. Phew. She has packed in more life in her 32 years than most people do in their entire lives. 

One of the more fascinating angles of the doc is seeing the dichotomy of Kate Nash the savvy, uber-talented musician and Kate Nash the struggling, almost bankrupted girl from England. She suffers a terrific blow when she discovers that her manager Gary Marella has stolen her money, effectively using her credit cards to pay for his lavish wedding. Not that she gives into any self pity. The fact that she’s self aware of how good she has it, or had it, is what brings her down to earth and keeps her there, firmly, for us to relate to. Who hasn’t had a bad couple of years? Kate Nash keeps her circle close and, yet, is joyfully independent. She fiercely champions girls and women in music and we see that she has contributed her time, finances and heart to bolstering girls in music education. That's another checkmark in my book. Which, as I look at it, is filled with checkmarks, with bits of her lyrics, with pink scribbled hearts and with a note to listen to her most recent album. 

So, yes baby, this doc releases May 22, on Alamo’s new platform ALAMO ON DEMAND and I recommend that you see it. You’ll be watching a well made, fun documentary and supporting the BEST movie theater in the nation. Yes love, Kate Nash is worth your time. Kate Nash is worth opening your heart for. Kate Nash is an honest to goodness heroine. And yes, I’ll see you there.