TV / Film News

Huey Lewis Records Pineapple Express Theme

Source: Michael Ricci
July 31, 2008

Huey Lewis records theme for 'Pineapple Express,' complete with toking sound courtesy of Seth Rogen

Ask '80s pop-rock superstar Huey Lewis how he wound up recording the title song for the highly anticipated stoner action-comedy Pineapple Express, due in theaters Aug. 6, and he'll basically shrug.

They e-mailed, 'Would I write a song for a Seth Rogen movie?' I said, 'Why not?' I don't consider career moves. I just answer the phone. I'm flattered at my ripe old age to ...

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New James Bond Theme Alicia Keys and Jack White

Source: All About Jazz
July 29, 2008

007 Alicia Keys, Jack White to Duet on New “James Bond" Theme

A couple months ago, Alicia Keys talked about her desire to collaborate with the White Stripes. She'll have to settle for the next best thing, as Keys and Jack White are teaming up for the theme song of the next James Bond film Quantum of Solace. “Another Way to Die" was written by White, who will also play drums and produce the track. The song marks the first ...

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The Dark Knight's Musical Mutations

Source: All About Jazz
July 29, 2008

The Dark Knight has survived many Sonic Iterations Though its current spectacle hews closely to the conventional blockbuster score of Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard. Which works just fine, thanks, considering the film recently broke the record for fastest ever to rack up $300 million. But before those two composers, everyone from Nelson Riddle and Prince to Danny Elfman and Siouxsie and the Banshees has chilled in the Batcave.

Although diehards may feel that Batman Forever and ...

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Secrecy Cloaked 'Dark Knight'

Source: Michael Ricci
July 28, 2008

Warner Bros. took painstaking care to thwart pirates ahead of the film's premier, and the effort paid off. The mission was to keep The Dark Knight from seeing the light of day.

In an era of instantaneous digital copying and widely available high-speed Internet access, the premature and unauthorized release of a movie to the public -- especially a coveted summer blockbuster -- can spell disaster. If the movie's a stinker, the word will travel at the speed of a ...

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India's New Partnership: Bollywood and Hip-Hop

Source: Michael Ricci
July 28, 2008

NEW DELHI -- Is Bollywood ready for Snoop Dogg?

The rapper once dubbed “America's Most Loveable Pimp" by Rolling Stone makes his debut in India this summer, with a guest appearance on the title track of a highly anticipated Bollywood movie, Singh Is Kinng. The movie is set to open in August, but the title song is already in heavy rotation on some radio stations in India. A fusion of hip-hop and bhangra with a simple chorus ("Singh is Kinng, ...

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Happy Birthday Stanley Kubrick

Source: All About Jazz
July 28, 2008

Stanley Kubrick Transformed Music in Pictures

Yes, he is a shining light of cinema, but he fits Listening Post like a virtual glove. He would have celebrated his 80th birthday on Sunday, if he had lived to witness the musical evolution of the form he fast-forwarded. His films irrevocably changed the relationship between film and music, from the juxtaposition of spaceship ballets and “The Blue Danube" to the destabilizing pairing of rape and “Singin' in the Rain." Sometimes it hurt ...

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Jack Sheldon's " Trying to Get Good" at the Rhode Island International Film Festival

Source: All About Jazz
July 27, 2008

Trying To Get Good: the Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon Plays the Rhode Island International Film Festival

The documentary on the jazz life of the great trumpet player will be showcased August 7th in Providence RI Film Fest.

Compelling and Highly Entertaining of the Consummate Musician, Irrepressible Comedian, and Ultimate Jazz Survivor, Jack Sheldon. Leonard Maltin-Entertainment Tonight

Despite -- or, perhaps, because of -- his cult status, Sheldon makes a compelling centerpiece for the lively, nostalgic documentary....The film ...

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Two Amateurs, Reinventing the Wheel

Source: Michael Ricci
July 27, 2008

Patti Smith in Steven Sebring's movie about her, subtitled “Dream of Life." He began filming her 12 years ago WHEN Steven Sebring began filming Patti Smith, 12 years ago, he was, by his own admission, pretty much an amateur. He made his living as a fashion photographer, as he still does. He didn't own a movie camera. (He now does.) He had been hired by Spin magazine to shoot some pictures for a story on Ms. Smith, and although his ...

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