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Slumdog Millionaire Named Best Film of 2008

December 5, 2008

The National Board of Review has picked Slumdog Millionaire as the year's best film. The board's picks are considered the first major indication of the Academy Awards. The win boosts the awards hopes for Slumdog, which is viewed as the independent film most likely to follow Juno and Little Miss Sunshine in Oscar contention. WALL-E was ...

Cadillac Records is as Flat as a Vinyl LP

December 5, 2008

Trite musical biopic feels like soundtrack album in search of a movie Adrien Brody portrays Polish immigrant Leonard Chess, whose Chess Records nurtured the careers of Muddy Waters and others. Cadillac Records tells the story of Chess and his company. Beyonce stars as Etta James and Jeffrey Wright plays Muddy Waters in this story ...

Cadillac Records Got Their Musical Mojo Working

December 5, 2008

In Cadillac Records, Darnell Martins rollicking and insightful celebration of Chicago blues in its hectic golden age, Jeffrey Wright plays the singer and guitarist Muddy Waters. This feat is made even more impressive and interesting when you reflect that in the same movie season Mr. Wright has portrayed another notable real-life African-American, the former Secretary of ...

Clint Eastwood's Grand Torino

December 5, 2008

At 78, perhaps the only actor in the history of American cinema to convincingly kick the butt of a guy 60 years his junior, the hard-headed, snarly mouthed Clint Eastwood of the 1970s comes growling back to life in Gran Torino. Centered on a cantankerous curmudgeon who can fairly be described as Archie Bunker fully loaded ...

Sundance 2009: Films in Competition

December 4, 2008

Sundance Film Festival in Park City Utah is reeving up. Here is a list of this years films in competition. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION This year's 16 films were selected from 879 submissions. Each film is a world premiere. The films screening in Documentary Competition are: Art & Copy (Director: Doug Pray; Screenwriter: Timothy ...

Fantasia: The Sorcerer's Apprentice

December 4, 2008

If it wasn't for “The Sorcerer's Apprentice", the feature Fantasia would never have been made. The fairy tale was made into a poem by Goethe and into a concert piece by Paul Dukas. Fantasia is a 1940 animated film produced by Walt Disney, an experiment in animation and music, consisting of classical music presented against the ...

The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

December 3, 2008

The short speaks volumes on the nature of jazz. “The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics" was awarded the Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 1965. It is based on the book by Norton Juster published two years earlier, a budding romance between a dot and an initially unyieldingly straight ...

Prop 8: The Musicial

December 3, 2008

Prop 8: The Musical All-Star Hollywood Cast Makes Video Mocking Gay Marriage Opponents Playbill News: Conceived and written by Hairspray Tony winner Marc Shaiman, the three-minute video was directed and staged by Adam Shankman, who helmed the “Hairspray" movie musical. The video also boasts an array of theatre and stage stars: The “California Gays and The ...

Ledisi X-Mas Special on Gospel Music Channel | Ledisi | News

December 3, 2008

Costellos Spectacle a Different Look at Music

December 2, 2008

Singers experience, insights make music-talk show great viewing Elvis Costello's new original series Spectacle will premiere on the Sundance Channel on Dec. 3 at 9 p.m. ET. During an interview with Elton John for the debut of his new Sundance Channel show Spectacle, Elvis Costello didn't ask about stage costumes, boyfriends or “Island Girl." Instead, the ...