The trailer gives a glimpse into the highs, the lows and the empowerment the iconic trio faced as they rose to fame, Spin reports. Cheryl “Salt” James is played by G.G. Townson in the three-hour miniseries, Sandra “Pepa” Denton is portrayed by Laila Odom, while Monique Paul is DJ Spinderella. Mario Van Peebles will direct the miniseries.
Billie Eilish has shared 'No Time to Die', dark and dramatic, with orchestral arrangements by Hans Zimmer and classic Bond-style guitar by Johnny Marr. The grandiose ballad was written with her older brother Finneas. The movie hits theaters in April.
Rapper Meek Mill has earned an award for his acting debut in the highly anticipated film 'Charm City Kings' - the movie has landed U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast at the Sundance. 'Charm City Kings' centers around a fourteen-year-old boy who wants to join the Midnight Clique, an infamous group of Baltimore dirt-bike riders. The movie is executive produced by Will Smith.
'American Utopia' began as a David Byrne album, it was then turned into a Broadway musical, and now movie director Spike Lee is adapting a feature-length film version. “Pinch me. This couldn’t have worked out better for this project” - Byrne commented on the project. 'American Utopia', the album, came out in 2018, and the musical opened in October 2019 with Byrne joined onstage by 11-piece mobile ensemble playing songs from the album, other tracks from his solo catalog, and Talking Heads material. The movie is coming out this year.
Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O'Connell have composed and recorded the title track for the new James Bond film, 'No Time To Die'. Eilish, who turned 18 last month, is the youngest artist in history to write and record a theme for the franchise. "James Bond is the coolest film franchise ever to exist. I'm still in shock" - she said.
Prince‘s 1984 film 'Purple Rain', Martin Scorsese’s classic concert film for the Band, 'The Last Waltz', and Milos Forman’s movie 'Amadeus' about Mozart have been added to the US Library of Congress’ National Film Registry for this year. The Library of Congress adds 25 films to the registry annually, recognising aesthetically, culturally, or historically significant films that showcase “the […]
Maybe we live in an era so combustible, so filled with hate and division, that such libertarian frivolity is downright irresponsible. Maybe it’s time for Slayer to go away for a while. Sit out these strange times" - NME says in a review of 'The Repentless Killology', a combination narrative movie and concert film about […]
The list goes from Bromley Davenport's minimalist analog synth, haunting melodies, whirring electronic effects and woozy waltzes in movie 'Xtro' he also directed at spot 35, to John Carpenter's 'Halloween' with minimalist piano at spot 1. Check the full list here.
Metallica's 'S&M2' movie screened last week in over 95 countries and more than 3,700 cinemas worldwide. The film achieved a significant global screen average of $1,500 with 460,000 admissions, earning in total $5.5 million, which makes it the largest ever global rock event cinema release in history, Loudwire reports. Thanks to the big demand, Trafalgar […]
“It’s easy to lose yourself, or never find yourself” - Bruce Springsteen narrates in the trailer to the companion movie to his latest album, ‘Western Stars’, Vulture reports. He shares some thoughts, and is quite honest- “The older you get, the heavier that baggage becomes that you haven’t sorted through, so you run. I’ve done […]
Amy, Looking For Sugarman, Bird, Walk The Line, Whiplash, The Doors, Cabaret, Vox Lux, Pink Floyd: Live At Pompeii, Woodstock, Control (and more) - a very good choice made by Anna Calvi, Neil Tennant, Nadine Shah, Wayne Coyne, Nitin Sawhney and Anna Meredith for the Guardian.
"Constant internet access and social media as life support allows access to more and more content, but in ever shorter bits and pieces: tweets over breakfast; half an article on the bus; a flick through Instagram at the desk. 'Anima' seems to argue that this creates a society that’s tired, overstimulated, and undernourished" - the Quietus says […]
Quentin Tarantino handpicked a total of 70 songs pulled from his iconic filmography in a specially curated four-hour playlist. Among his favorites are Nancy Sinatra’s 'Bang Bang' from the opening scene of 'Kill Bill: Vol. 1', 'Jungle Boogie' by Kool & The Gang from 'Pulp Fiction', and The White Stripes’ 'Apple Blossom' from 'The Hateful Eight'. Louder Sound reports […]
Guardian reviews new Bruce Springsteen biopic 'Blinded By the Light': "Another crowd-pleasing but emotionally sincere tale of teenage multicultural strife, but it is also yet another movie celebrating the power of classic, white-guy rock. It is beginning to feel like a conspiracy: repackaging the 20th-century rock canon to a generation who don’t really listen to […]
Former Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst has a new movie, and a trailer for it, starring John Travolta as a fan-turned-stalker, has been released (watch below). Travolta called working with Durst on 'The Fanatic' “maybe my favourite experience I’ve had... He allowed me to create a character that no one else would allow”, NME reports. The film […]
Beyonce curated and produced a new album, 'The Lion King: The Gift', which is "steeped in the sounds of Africa", and it includes new Beyonce song 'Spirit' (watch the lyric video below). The album and the film's soundtrack will feature a number of global recording artists, but it isn't just "a collection of songs" inspired by the film […]
Award-winning writer/director team of Richard Curtis and Danny Boyle made a new movie 'Yesterday', with an interesting catch - nobody knows anything about the Beatles. The movie premiered on Tuesday, it stars former EastEnders actor Himesh Patel as a struggling singer-songwriter, as his character Jack Malik wakes up after an accident caused by a global […]
"The greatest zombie cast ever disassembled" will star in Jim Jarmusch's zombie movie 'The Dead Don't Die'. So, in musicians-first order, it's: Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, RZA, Selena Gomez, Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosie Perez, Sara Driver and Carol Kane. The plot is not […]
