Given that 2014's Whiplash is packed with incredible performances, viewers may be left wondering if Miles Teller's drum playing was real in the film. Written and directed by La La Land's Damien ...

("Whiplash" is the song that Teller's character is playing when he's almost decapitated by a chair thrown at him. "Caravan" is the song with the extended drum solo in the film's wonderful third act.

For Whiplash, it mostly seems to boil down to one thing: how quickly can you drum? The opening track of the album makes that clear, as we hear a snare drum banged repeatedly by Andrew (Miles Telle ...

I needed to line the pictures up, manually, for every drum hit. The most precise way ... to feel violent and brutal. He wanted Whiplash to be an action thriller first and music movie last ...

“Whiplash” should whip that feeling out of you faster than a really up-tempo drum solo. Rarely has a movie shown so viscerally the utter pain that can accompany the bliss of creating good musi ...

Whiplash, based on director Damien ... But while Teller had played drums, he trained twice a week in four-hour sessions for the film's many syncopated solos. "The most important thing was the ...

but “Whiplash” is about jazz in almost exactly the same way that “Black Swan” is about ballet. Miles Teller (of “21 & Over” and “The Spectacular Now”) really does play the drums ...

This is also the simplistic takeaway from writer/director Damien Chazelle’s entertaining debut “Whiplash,” a film ... raining sweat and blood upon his drum set and cymbals.

A Marine staggers his way through boot camp. An intern sleepwalks her day through hospital rounds. Probie firefighters get every bad job and are the butt of every rude joke They are grueling rites ...

The dark, gripping and unpredictable Sundance hit “Whiplash” will keep you as off-kilter as the syncopated jazz drum beat that leads its audience toward the film’s electrifying and surprise ...

And my sense is that it may work again this year for Whiplash, a powerful drama that is being handled by Sony Pictures Classics. Whiplash — one of the great double-meaning film titles — was ...