November 17, 2021 First Look At Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Biopic Baz Luhrmann who has made a name for himself directing spectacles like Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge!,  has shared his first look at his new Elvis Presley biopic detailing his rise to fame as well as the singer’s complex relationship with his manager, Colonel
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In the wake of redefining the measurement of binge-watching on streaming, Netflix’s new top 10 film chart for the week of Nov. 8-14 lists Rawson Marshall Thurber’s $200M action feature Red Notice as the No. 1 film for the period with 148.7M hours watched since Nov. 12; easily the most watched movie ever on Netflix for
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A spinoff of the Brendan Fraser-starring Mummy franchise, 2002’s The Scorpion King starred Dwayne Johnson as Mathayus, the titular Scorpion King, spawning its own film franchise that to date includes five installments. Johnson returned for precisely none of them, but he will be on board as producer for a brand new reboot on the way from Universal Pictures. As we
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Author Lars Nilsen, a longtime Alamo Drafthouse film programmer, and now Austin Film Society lead film programmer, has written a definitive guide to exploitation cinema. Mondo’s Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive, edited by Kier-La Janisse (Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror) featuring
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SohoJohnny’s debut single “Precious & Few” hits #49 on the DRT Global Top 150 Independent Airplay Chart, and hits #181 on the DRT Global Top 200 Airplay Chart. “Precious & Few” is quickly rising and is charting higher than industry icons Luke Combs, Imagine Dragons, Drake, Maroon 5, Chris Stapleton and more. One of the
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Floating Room is the musical project led by Maya Stoner, an Uchinanchu American artist based in Portland, Oregon. Over the years, her music has hovered between styles united by a DIY ethos: her debut release, 2016’s Sunless, was recorded entirely in her bedroom, and subsequent releases have been markedly less lo-fi and more sonically diverse.
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Ahead of their 14th album, Requiem, the infamous ’90s aggro band is in a healthier place than ever. By Grant Rindner November 16, 2021 Korn.Courtesy of Tim Saccenti. Livestream concerts were promised as one of the great saviors of the pandemic-plagued music industry, but they rarely lived up to the hype. One exception? Korn’s Monumental,
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Author Lars Nilsen, a longtime Alamo Drafthouse film programmer, and now Austin Film Society lead film programmer, has written a definitive guide to exploitation cinema. Mondo’s Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive, edited by Kier-La Janisse (Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror) featuring
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November 16, 2021 FEATURED, Movies Watch The Teaser Trailer For ‘DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA’ Director: Simon Curtis Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Brendan Coyle, Michelle Dockery, Kevin Doyle, Joanne Froggatt, Harry Hadden-Paton, Robert James-Collier, Allen Leech, Phyllis Logan, Elizabeth McGovern, Sophie McShera, Tuppence Middleton, Lesley Nicol, Maggie Smith, Imelda Staunton, Penelope Wilton, and new
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A mid-2010s Bitter Southerner feature on John Prine offers an incredible look into, as author Jonathan Bernstein writes, “one of the wittiest, sweetest, most talented musicians alive.” Perhaps the most enlightening fact to come out of the gushing praise from Prine’s musical peers, collaborators and admirers, however, is that, just as they are fans of his,
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Warner Bros.’ Elvis movie from Baz Luhrmann is going a bit later from June 3, 2022 to June 24, 2022. The pic will be a pure theatrical release, not hybrid day-and-date with HBO Max as Warner Bros. pivots from its pandemic 2021 distribution plan. Elvis’ departure from the first weekend of June leaves the frame up for grabs by
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Horsegirl – the Chicago trio of Penelope Lowenstein, Nora Cheng, and Gigi Reece – have shared a new single, ‘Billy’. Their debut release for Matador, the track was recorded at Chicago’s Electrical Audio and co-produced with John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, Kurt Vile). Check out its accompanying video below, and scroll down for the
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